The department has outlined new changes as well as improvements to its online application system for the 2022 academic year.
Applications for grade 1 and 8 admissions for the 2021 academic year will close on Friday, 25 July.
Although many parents managed to register their children on the first day, there was a problem with the link to the Department of Home Affairs database.
The online application process for grades 1 and 8 pupils opened on Thursday morning for the 2021 academic year.
Frustrated and exhausted in a line that seems to have no end, parents and guardians said they wanted the online process scrapped.
The Gauteng Education Department said that so far it’s received nearly 300,000 applications for grade 1 and 8 pupils for the 2020 academic year.
Thousands of children are yet to be placed in classrooms over a week after the start of the 2019 academic year.
The Department of Basic Education has once again reminded parents that late applications will be announced in due course.
MEC Panyaza Lesufi ays parents of the 6,800 learners who could not be placed, will be given other options but it will be in schools further away from their homes.
The department still has to place around 16,000 children and has appealed to parents to accept the schools they're allocated even if it's not their first choice.
So far, about 225,000 learners have been placed in public schools for next year around the province.
The department says all parents of Grades 1 and 8 pupils who applied online will receive their offers via SMS.
The system went live on Monday with the department receiving over 200,000 applications so far.
The online portal for grade one and eight pupils went live on Monday.
The online registration system went live on Monday morning. Close to 35,000 applications had already been received by 9am.
The online portal saw problems in 2016, but the process was a lot smoother last year.
Gauteng education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has emphasised the online system is only to register pupils in grades one and eight.
Parents are angry as more than 30,000 pupils still need to be placed in schools before they can start with this year's academic programme.
