Education and Manpower Development 1995. No. 16
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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 407 430 TM 026 468 AUTHOR Strauss, J. P., Comp.; And Others TITLE Education and Manpower Development 1995. No. 16. INSTITUTION University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein (South Africa) . REPORT NO ISBN-0-8-68886-567-2 PUB DATE Oct 96 NOTE 57p. PUB TYPE Reports Evaluative (142) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC03 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *College Students; Data Collection; *Elementary School Students; Elementary Secondary Education; *Enrollment; Enrollment Projections; Foreign Countries; High School Graduates; *Higher Education; Instructional Program Divisions; *Population Trends; Racial Differences; *Secondary School Students; Sex Differences; Tables (Data); Teacher Student Ratio; Teachers; Technical Education IDENTIFIERS *South Africa ABSTRACT This is the first publication in this series on education in South Africa that provides a picture of education in the new South Africa. For the first time in 1995, data were collected by nonracial education departments in each of the nine new provinces. In the past, data had been collected for 17 different, racially based departments. Data collection was complicated by the difficulties of reorganization but the data do provide a concise picture of formal school education in South Africa. Figures provide information on the following topics:(1) enrollment by province and population group;(2) enrollment by school phase and gender;(3) enrollment by population group in elementary and secondary education (2 graphs);(4) learners as a percentage of the population per province;(5) enrollment by gender and standard (grade) per province and nationwide (11 graphs);(6) 'passing rate and number of passes from Standard 10 per province; (7) teacher-student ratio per province and school phase;(8) number of students in Standard 10 and in tertiary institutions, 1993 and 1995;(9) university students according to gender;(10) college personnel by gender;(11) students at technikons (technical schools) by gender;(12) teachers at technikons by gender;(13) learner enrollment forecasts for provinces and the country to 2005 (10 graphs); and (14) learner enrollment forecasts for South Africa by population group to 2005. (Contains 14 figures.) 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Although the8 composition the population according group to racewas innot the indicated different in departments. collecting2 the data, a projection based on previous9 years was done to Fig. 2: Learner enrolmentgender, according 1995 to school phaseand JP Girls: 1962243 (16,68%) JP Boys: 2101215 (17,86%) SP Girls: 1559763 (13,26%) SP Boys: 1548227 (13,16%) JS Girls: 1420752SS Girls:(12,08%) 1056312 (8,98%) SS Boys: 843505JS Boys: (7,17%) 1272902 (10,81%) school16,15%Except population. forin seniorthe junior secondary 34,34% primary schools.of school learners phase, were girls in junior were primary;in the majority 26,42% in thein senior other threeprimary; phases. 22,90% Girls in constitutedjunior secondary 57% of and the onlytotal I- S. I I S I. P-1 Fig. 4: Learners as aprovince, percentage 1995 of the population per There does not seem to Eastern Cape adistributionbe apercentage definite of pattern learnersof in theas FreeGauteng State populationMore than one inof the a third province. Northern of the NorthernKwazulu/NatalMpumalanga Cape schoolsEasternProvince, in Cape, 1995.as wellattended as the NorthernWesternNorth Province CapeWest Gauteng,andlearnersIn a metropolitanhighly asthe industrialised part number area of thelike of Average0 9 18Percentage27 36 45 thenoticeablytotal rest ofpopulation the lower country. than foris 14 5 The grade 1 to the matric Std 10 Fig. 5a:and Learner standard270721 enrolment in Eastern according-140324 Cape, 1995 to gender Easternenrolment Caperatio was for6,6:1.the Std 7689 752261914455311329121 148370165698182868193212 theEspeciallylargernoticeablenumberofis Std 2345 1107611101151187913177 -19182219841511081531114254 grade 2 learners.1 comparedto GradeStd 12 ?25 1380381119914 1120240J137873 1220785 -250 -150 -50 Boys(Thousands)Girls50 150 250 Fig. 5b: Learner enrolment according to gender enrolmentThe graderatio1 toformatricthe StdStd 10 9 and standard in Free State, 1995 EspeciallyFree State wasnoticeable 2,9:1. is Std 5678 5096777089082693 learnersthe larger thannumber the of Std Std 56 Std 1423 305607302803297 learners. Grade 12-60 -40 -20 0 20 1440 60 16 (Thousands)Boys Girls 6 17 The grade 1:matric ratio Std 10 Fig. 5c:367071 Learnerand standard enrolment in Gauteng, according 1995 to146521 gender Noticeablefor Gauteng isis 2:1.thelarge Std 6789 5380414756442194 150520154868159323 asintake well of learnersas the steeperin Std 6, Std 345 60021159923154714514671 155041156989160235h°96 graphgradient for exhibitedboys compared in the GradeStd 12 878701 692811667211624601 160993152926154910 77 indicatestothatfor thatgirls, more whichboys -100 -50 (Thousands)Boys0 Girls 50 100 thannext standard.girls progress to the