(1)With reference to the Concept Document on the Introduction of the Three Stream Model in the Basic Education Sector dated 11 April 2016, (a) how did her department arrive at a learner retention target of 90% and (b) what plans are in place to assist the 10% of learners who are not retained in the system;
(2) how many learners have been registered since 1 January 2016 in the (a) academic stream that currently caters for the majority of learners from Grade R to 12 and is embodied in the National Curriculum Statement of 2011 and (b) technical vocational stream through the introduction of the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS) for Technical Schools;
(3) when will the (a) vocational occupational stream be introduced through the development of the General Certificate of Education: Skills and Vocational and (b) General Certificate of Education as a school leaving certificate at the end of Grade 9 be introduced;
(4) with reference to the specified paper rightly acknowledging that the move to vocational occupational education should not signal a return to an apartheid education system which side-lined learners from disadvantaged backgrounds into inferior educational tracks, what is her department doing to ensure that all learners are given a fair chance to excel in any of the three streams mooted in the specified paper?