Learner Performance in South Africa : Social and Economic Determinants of Success in Language and Mathematics Paperback / softback

South Africa has systematically expanded its education system and more learners are reaching higher grades, yet the issue of quality has been difficult to address.

One of the reasons for this is that, until recently, the information required to analyse learner competencies in relation to the inputs they receive from their school and home environments did not exist.

The results of the recent, large scale Quality learning project (QLP) survey have now made this data available for certain schools, and this monograph uses the QLP data to address the question of how socio-economic variables impact on educational outcomes for pupils concerned.

This study contains crucial information for educatinal sociologists and economists as well as for policy makers and education managers both in South Africa an in other developing countries.

The research programme on human resources development (HRD) at the HSRC provides state-of-the-art information in HRD.

The programme aims to inform the development of skills that will meet national social and economic needs.

In addition to producing an HRD review and an electronically accessible cross-sectoral data warehouse, the research programme undertakes use