{"id":885215,"date":"2026-01-15T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/levelling-up-grade-r-teachers-face-job-losses-without-nqf-level-6-qualifications\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:22:18","slug":"levelling-up-grade-r-teachers-face-job-losses-without-nqf-level-6-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/15\/levelling-up-grade-r-teachers-face-job-losses-without-nqf-level-6-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"LEVELLING UP: Grade R teachers face job losses without NQF level 6 qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Grade R now fully integrated into formal schooling, the Basic Education Department demands minimum NQF Level 6 qualifications for all educators. A sizeable backlog of unqualified teachers must upgrade or risk losing their posts, highlighting a critical phase in early education reform&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/article\/grade-r-teachers-face-job-losses-without-nqf-level-6-qualifications\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Tama Schildgen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Grade R now fully integrated into formal schooling, the Basic Education Department demands minimum NQF Level 6 qualifications for all educators. A sizeable backlog of unqualified teachers must upgrade or risk losing their posts, highlighting a critical phase in early education reform&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32896,102194,192],"tags":[107540,102309],"class_list":{"0":"post-885215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-grade","8":"category-levelling","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-grade","11":"tag-levelling"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}