this is in recognition of the impact the socioeconomic background of students has on their academic achievement a range of compensatory educational programmes such as the community teachers programme the teacher teacher programme the tutorials project and the educational commitment programme provide schools with greater opportunities to offer the necessary support for students with greater needs however there are three aspects which require further reflection this might reduce the transparency of funding to schools while increasing the complexity of resource distribution second other policy issues such as student repetition and teacher deployment to individual schools have not received enough attention in terms of the inequities they introduce in the system