The school is a partnership between the Gauteng Department of Education and UJ. It is a public school, but also a research/teachingschool, a first of its kind in South Africa.
As part of the UJ Institute for Childhood Education (UJICE) the Funda UJabule School serves not only children and families in Soweto, but also the scholarly community. Ground breaking research is conducted in a multifaceted panel inquiry over four years, in which the children’s cognitive ability, their performance in mathematics, their linguistic competence in two languages (either isiZulu and English, or Sesotho and English), their literacy development in two languages, as well as their learning of science are captured in standardised and custom designed instruments.
