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   Muavia Gallie

   13 years Ago

   Your figures can’t be verified, since such a statement has to clarify what the ASSUMED pupil-teacher ratio will be. If you work on pupil-teacher ratios as can be afforded by wealthy countries, then this figure might be justifiable. But if you work from a base that most of the African Countries who are struggling with realising Universal Primary Education, the pupil-teacher ratios should be more realisable based on the context and budget affordability of these countries. And this includes my own country, South Africa.

   The notion of ‘shortage of teachers’ is often created by ourselves. For example: If you have an ‘island’ country with 1 000 learners, and only access to 20 teachers, then your pupil-teacher ratio should be 50:1. But, if you want to copy another country’s pupil teacher ratio of say, 30:1, you will immediately create a ‘shortage of teachers’ problem.

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