How To Fix It: What Finland and reverence for teachers can teach SA's school system

How To Fix It: What Finland and reverence for teachers can teach SA's school system

We’re constantly told that education is the single most important service to get right to secure South Africa’s future. In this episode, we’re speaking to an expert on probably the world’s most respected school system, chatting to someone who toured schools all around South Africa to get a sense of what makes the good ones good, and along the way we are busting some of the myths that have built up over the years around this troublesome topic.

Further reading: Molly Blank & Jonathan Jansen, How To Fix South Africa’s Schools: Lessons From Schools That Work (2014)

Further watching: ‘Schools That Work’

Don’t Shoot the Messenger is produced by Haji Mohamed Dawjee and written and presented by Rebecca Davis with editing by Tevya Turok Shapiro, sound mix by Bernard Kotze and additional support by Kathryn Kotze.

This podcast has been sponsored by Ninety One.

Ninety One SA (Pty) Ltd is an authorised financial services provider.

We’re constantly told that education is the single most important service to get right to secure South Africa’s future. In this episode, we’re speaking to an expert on probably the world’s most respected school system, chatting to someone who toured schools all around South Africa to get a sense of what makes the good ones good, and along the way we are busting some of the myths that have built up over the years around this troublesome topic.

Further reading: Molly Blank & Jonathan Jansen, How To Fix South Africa’s Schools: Lessons From Schools That Work (2014)

Further watching: ‘Schools That Work’

Don’t Shoot the Messenger is produced by Haji Mohamed Dawjee and written and presented by Rebecca Davis with editing by Tevya Turok Shapiro, sound mix by Bernard Kotze and additional support by Kathryn Kotze.

This podcast has been sponsored by Ninety One.

Ninety One SA (Pty) Ltd is an authorised financial services provider.