Abstract
D.Ed. (Educational Management)
The learner teacher ratio is one of the factors that affects the quality of education provided in schools the national department of education (1992:6) indicated that one of the problems adversely affecting the overall quality of education in south Africa was, among others, not the shortage of educators but their unequal distribution. This unequal distribution of educators in schools was mainly due to the massive discrepancies in the amounts spent by the apartheid government on education departments (National Department of education, 1992:6 Coutts, 1996:131; University of Witswatersrand, 1997: 1)...