Cosatu urges support for teachers’ assistants to become permanent educators [SOUND]

# Cosatu calls for strong support for teachers’ assistants to become permanent teachers, opening career paths for young people. The federation says this will help improve education, reduce the high teacher-to-learner ratio and fight youth unemployment. Cosatu’s Matthew Parks welcomes the restart of the presidential employment stimulus, which sees 200-thousand young people begin work as teaching assistants across the country: