PODCAST | The Lead: Are INTEC, Damelin failing their students and staff? With Prega Govender

Educor’s tutelage over a significant part of South Africa’s private education sector,specifically via colleges like Damelin,INTEC and City Varsity,has again come in for sharp criticism from staff and students,past and present,complaining about a severe lack of academic support.

Papi Morake/Gallo Images | Overlay Graphic: Sharlene Rood,Graeme Raubenheimer/News24

Is Educor setting itself up for deregistration by the government once again?

Representing a host of private education institutions,including Damelin College,Educor has in recent years been drowning in a pile of complaints from staff and students about its poor teaching and administrative practices.

Well,another of its institutions,INTEC,has now come in for sharp criticism from staff and students,complaining about a severe lack of academic support.

Is this a repeat of a similar Damelin saga where exams were cancelled at the last minute in 2024?

ADVERTISEMENT

We mark Educor’s test paper with News24’s senior education journalist,Prega Govender,in this edition of The Lead.

Later in the show,former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo claims he had more faith in the early 2000s-era Scorpions than today’s Hawks.

Finally,‘Luigi’ the Boks’ homeless superfan finally heads home to Makhanda.

You can send show host Graeme Raubenheimer a short voice note with your questions or thoughts on this episode to our official The Lead WhatsApp line,that’s: +27 72 562 3179. Mail your comments to [email protected]. Editions drop on Monday through Thursday at 19:00 on Spotify,Apple and YouTube.

ADVERTISEMENT

Listen on Spotify:

Listen on YouTube:

Listen on Apple Podcasts: