The Trevor Noah Foundation has expanded its inclusive-education teacher training to 18 Gauteng schools, equipping around 200 educators in this cohort to better support learners with diverse learning needs.
The expansion, announced 22 July 2026, was developed with Inclusive Education South Africa and the Gauteng Department of Education as part of the Foundation’s Khulani Schools Programme, building on an earlier pilot run with the national Department of Basic Education and VVOB.
Training in this cohort combines mentor support, face-to-face and online learning, and classroom-based application, covering Universal Design for Learning, curriculum differentiation, SIAS implementation and individual support planning. The Foundation favours sustained, school-embedded development over once-off workshops, and plans to generate case studies from this expansion to inform inclusive-education practice more broadly across South Africa.
The rollout follows the Foundation’s own review of South Africa’s inclusive-education landscape, which found that while national policy — including Education White Paper 6 and the SIAS framework — is progressive, many teachers still lack practical, ongoing support to apply it in increasingly diverse classrooms.
The Foundation has framed teacher capacitation in this cohort as a direct test of whether sustained, school-embedded development can shift both teacher confidence and classroom practice, with findings intended to feed into South Africa’s wider inclusive-education evidence base.
The Foundation says it will publish learning notes and case studies as the 18-school cohort progresses, tracking outcomes against the questions guiding this specific intervention.
