Jack Shonkoff, Linda Richter and other prominent academics have published an article, “An Integrated Scientific Framework for Child Survival and Early Childhood Development” in the Paediatrics Journal. The article confirms the need for an integrated approach to ECD and provides a scientific basis for encouraging policy-makers and programme developers to work together. The article produces...

SACMEQ is a network of 15 ministries of education with the common aim of building national capacity to monitor and evaluate the quality of their basic education systems. South Africa has participated in two cross-nation studies of education systems – one in 2000, the other in 2007. The results of the 2007 study have been published by the Department of Basic Education. This study, known as...