Fail for online registrations
With online registrations still delayed, parents are growing more frustrated.
Parents of next year’s Grade 1 and Grade 8 pupils remain frustrated with the website of the online registrations crashing again this morning.
The Gauteng Education Department (GDE) said its online registration website was set to go live at 10am, two hours after originally scheduled, due to a technical problem.
“Due to a technical glitch in the Learner Admissions website, the website will go live at 10am and not at 8am as previously communicated,” GDE’s acting spokesperson, Oupa Bodibem, said.
Numerous parents phoned the News and expressed their frustration after queuing for hours at schools to fill in hard copy registration forms, but were later told by district representatives to “go home”.
Monument High School’s public relations and marketing officer, Eben Vermaas, said parents were able to fill in the school’s registrations and that laptops were set up to help parents register online as well. At Hoërskool Noordheuwel, parents were given a hard copy registration form, but were also advised that they needed to register online first.
“After you register online, you are given a reference number that needs to filled in on the hard copy,” the school’s Sonet Guy explained.
* As of noon, the GDE’s website is still not accessible for parents to register.
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