fourth resourcing strategies need to be developed with the adequate assessment of the extra resources needed to educate a student with special needs one priority is the establishment of special schools at the secondary education level there is no reason to assume that students with special needs cannot aspire to reach secondary education this requires early intervention and coordinated strategies for equity to compress sociocultural differences in achievement requires structured programmes in early childhood care and education extending upwards into primary school ensuring that schools provide their students with adequate and timely support is essential to enable struggling students not only to stay at school but to get the most of their schooling years