The South African Department of Basic Education just released a policy document, open for public comment, explaining how the department plans to handle textbooks in the future. Arthur Atwell notes that while it is still a draft, a senior DBE leader recently told a group of publishers that the government’s position on procurement was ‘very unlikely to change.’ Atwell writes that while the document contains many important ideals, with an emphasis on making sure that each child has textbooks, ‘there is one, huge, glaring misadventure: the DBE wants to buy a single textbook in each subject for the whole country.’
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