Publications - Country Studies - South Africa

CREATE South Africa is managed through the University of Witswatersrand Education Policy Unit (Wits EPU). The lead researcher and partner co-ordinator is Dr Shireen Motala (Shireen.Motala@wits.ac.za).

Find below outputs from CREATE on access to education in South Africa.

• Title: At School But Not Learning: A Day in The Life of South African Learners
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief 5
  Author(s): Setungoane
  Letsatsi, Samantha Williams and Roger Deacon.
  Date: 2011
• Title: Parental Participation and Meaningful Access in South African Schools
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief 4
  Author(s): Shireen Motala and
  Roger Deacon
  Date: 2011
• Title: Seeds of Their Struggle: The Features of Under- and Overage Enrolment Among Grade 4 Learners in South Africa
  Type/ID*: PTA 47
  Author(s): Nick Taylor, Thabo Mabogoane, Jennifer Shindler & Bina Akoobhai
  Date: 2010
• Title: Educational Access in South Africa
  Type/ID: Country Research Summary
  Authors: Shireen Motala and Veerle Dieltens
  Date: 2010
• Title: Exploring the Viability of School-Based Support for Vulnerable Children: A case study of two township schools in Johannesburg
  Type/ID*: PTA 46
  Author(s): Samantha E. Williams
  Date: 2010
• Title: Access to Learning - Mathematics Performance in Schools in Gauteng and Eastern Cape
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief 3
  Author(s): Carla Pereira
  Date: 2009
• Title: The Education Roadmap in South Africa
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief 2
  Author(s): Graeme Bloch
  Date: 2009
• Title: "No fee" schools in South Africa
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief 1
  Author(s): Shireen Motala and Yusuf Sayed
  Date: 2009
• Title: The Impact of Language on Educational Access in South Africa
  Type/ID*: PTA 24
  Author(s): Michel Lafon
  Date: 2009
• Title: Physical access to schooling in South Africa: mapping dropout, repetition and age-grade progression in two districts / Comparative Education, Vol. 45, no.2
  Type/ID*: Journal Article
  Author(s): Shireen Motala, Veerle Dieltiens and Yusuf Sayed
  Date: 2009
• Title: Gender repetition: school access, transitions and equity in the ‘Birth-to-Twenty’ cohort panel study in urban South Africa / Comparative Education, Vol, 45, no.2
  Type/ID*: Journal Article
  Author(s): Brahm Fleisch and Jennifer Shindler
  Date: 2009
• Title: Learning and equitable access in the Western Cape, South Africa / Comparative Education, Vol. 45, no.2
  Type/ID*: Journal Article
  Author(s): David Gilmour and Crain Soudien
  Date: 2008
• Title: School participation from ‘Birth-to-Twenty’: Patterns of schooling in an urban child cohort study in South Africa (Summary)
  Type/ID*: PTA 27
  Author(s): Brahm Fleish and Jennifer Shindler
  Date: 2009
• Title: Children out of School in South Africa taken from South Africa Child Gauge 2008/9 (Policy Brief)
  Type/ID*: Policy Brief
  Author(s): Brahm Fleisch, Jennifer Shindler and Helen Perry
  Date: 2009
• Title: Caught in the ideological crossfire: private schooling in South Africa / South African Review of Education (SARE), Vol 14, no. 3
  Type/ID*: Journal Article
  Author(s): Shireen Motala and Veerle Dieltiens
  Date: 2008
• Title: Educational Access in South Africa: Country Analytic Report (Summary)
  Type/ID*: CAR
  Author(s): Motala, S., Dieltiens, V., Carrim, N., Kgobe, P., Moyo, G. & Rembe, S.
  Date: 2007
• Title: We must have equality in schools / The Star (South Africa)
  Type/ID*: Press article
  Author(s): Shireen Motala
  Date: 14.6.2007
• Title: Remembering June 16 – 30 years later / The Daily Star (South Africa)
  Type/ID*: Press article
  Author(s): Shireen Motala
  Date: 16.6.2007
• Title: School Participation from Birth-to-Twenty: Evidence from South Africa’s Childhood Cohort Study
  Type/ID*: Conf. paper
  Author(s): Brahm Fleisch
  Date: 2007
• Title: Inching along: educational survival in South Africa / Botswana Conference, 2006
  Type/ID*: Conf. paper
  Author(s): Veerle Dieltiens
  Date: 2006
• Title: Inching along: educational survival in South Africa / Botswana Conference, 2006
  Type/ID*: Conf. paper
  Author(s): Paul Kgobe
  Date: 2006
• Title: Finding place and keeping pace: access to schooling in South Africa / Quarterly Review of Education and Training in South Africa, Vol 13, No. 2
  Type/ID*: Journal Article
  Author(s): Wits EPU (eds).
  Date: 2006

* CAR = Country Analytic Review
* PTA = Pathways to Access series