Businessman Reuel Khoza says matric should still remain the only point of exit in basic education.
Khoza was speaking after delivering the 10th annual Eskia Mphahlele Memorial Lecture at the UNISA Polokwane campus on Friday night.
Dr Reuel Khoza delivering the 10th Eskia Mphahlele Annual Memorial Lecture at Unisa pic.twitter.com/hVdtuyNwjh
— Adv Selby Makgotho (@AdvSelby) September 27, 2019
Reading and Writing Seminar in honour of the late Prof Eskia Mphahlele currently underway at Unisa. Prof Mphahlele was the first black person to to obtain Masters Degree in English (Cum laude) from Unisa in 1968. Dr Ruel Khoza will deliver Prof Mphahlele’s 10th memorial lecture
— Adv Selby Makgotho (@AdvSelby) September 27, 2019
#Watch: Dr Reuel Khoza delivering the 10th Es’kia Mphahlele Annual Memorial Lecture. #EskiaMphahlele2019 #EMML2019 @unisaradio @katlego4ever pic.twitter.com/2tjXA8Z7uj
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This year’s lecture focused on transformation in higher education with the hope of producing ethical leaders.
Khoza says learners exiting school at grade nine need to be intellectually prepared.
“Given an opportunity, I would suggest you only go vocational granted but after you have developed your brain sufficiently. I would say even that exit should be at matric and not at grade nine so there is a sense in which matric, in my humble submission, should still be the point of exit; but come tertiary education I would advocate combining practice with theory.”
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