Basic Education Committee requests detailed breakdown of outstanding BELA policy reviews [SOUND]

# Parliament’s portfolio committee on Basic Education has requested a detailed list of schools that have not yet completed reviews of their admission and language policies, along with reasons for these outstanding reviews. This relates to the Basic Education Laws Amendment Act. Committee chairperson Joy Maimela says the Department of Basic Education informed the committee that while there is progress in implementing the provisions of the Act, there are challenges. She says these include shortfalls in funding, infrastructure and capacity of provincial education departments: