The findings were announced on Tuesday by Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshega during the release of the Talis report at Nellmapius Secondary School in Pretoria.

Talis covers about 260,000 teachers in 15,000 schools across 48 countries and economies.

It surveyed teachers and school leaders on the working conditions and the learning environment in several countries, including, Australia, Japan, Korea, Norway, the United States and the United Kingdom, to provide a barometer of the profession.

The report is viewed as an examination of the basic education sector from the perspective of the teachers.

The report also revealed that 60 percent of teachers are female and only 20 percent of women are principals.

In the country, 69 percent of teachers report having participated in some kind of formal or informal induction when they joined their current school, compared to 42 percent of teachers across Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and economies participating in Talis.

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