Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers
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2011-12
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Abstract
The world’s population reached 7 billion last month, just as South Africa’s national census was completed. Most of this growth
has occurred within the last century – the global population stood at just 2 billion in 1927. Steven Sinding, director of the US
Agency for International Development, has remarked that ‘Clearly we are living through an extraordinary period in human
history, an era of unprecedented growth in our species’. Africa is the continent with the second largest share of the world’s
population – just over a billion people, but population numbers in sub-Saharan Africa, where birth rates have not been falling
significantly as they have been elsewhere in the developing world, are predicted to double by 2050. At last count (in 2005), South
Africa’s 50 million residents comprised just less than 5% of the continent’s population. The present census should enumerate the
extent to which our population has grown, with an expected reduction in fertility associated with increasing urbanisation likely
to be exceeded by increased migration.
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CITATION: Cherry, M. I. 2011. Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers. South African Journal of Science, 107(11/12), Art. #991, doi:10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.991.
CITATION: Cherry, M. I. 2011. Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers. South African Journal of Science, 107(11/12), Art. #991, doi:10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.991.
Keywords
Bursaries, Training, Teachers
Citation
Cherry, M.I. 2011. Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers. South African Journal of Science, 107(11/12), doi:10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.991
Cherry, M. I. 2011. Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers. South African Journal of Science, 107(11/12), Art. #991, doi:10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.991.
Cherry, M. I. 2011. Government urgently needs to provide additional bursaries to train talented teachers. South African Journal of Science, 107(11/12), Art. #991, doi:10.4102/sajs.v107i11/12.991.