Progress%20Report%20on%20FET%20College%20Recapitalisation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

About This Presentation

Title:

Progress%20Report%20on%20FET%20College%20Recapitalisation

Description:

Title: Department of Education Province of the Eastern Cape Author: WinXP User Last modified by: PC 10 Created Date: 11/21/2005 7:56:14 PM Document presentation format – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:182

Avg rating:3.0/5.0

Slides: 22

Provided by: WinX131

Category:

more less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Progress%20Report%20on%20FET%20College%20Recapitalisation

1
Progress Report on FET College Recapitalisation

Presentation to NCOPs Select Committee on
Education by Eastern Cape Department of Education
on 21 June 2006

2
Presentation Outline

Overview
Progress Report
Plans for Current Financial Year
Challenges
Successes
Conclusion

3
Overview

There are eight (8) colleges namely
- Buffalo City FET College
- Eastcape Midlands FET College
- Ikhala FET College
- Ingwe FET College
- King Hintsa FET College
- King Sabata Dalindyebo FET College
- Lovedale FET College
- Port Elizabeth FET College

4
(No Transcript)
5
Overview continued

The recapitalisation budget allocated to the
Province R255 500m over three years
The conditional grant for the current year
R61m
- Buffalo City FET College R14m
- Eastcape Midlands FET College R 9m
- Ikhala FET College R 6m
- Ingwe FET College R 2m
- King Hintsa FET College R 2m
- King Sabata Dalindyebo FET College R 5m
- Lovedale FET College R10m
- Port Elizabeth FET College R13m

6
Progress Report

Transfers
R30 500m was transferred to the Province by the
National Department of Education as the first
tranche on 13 April 2006
This amount was transferred to the colleges on 21
April 2006
Colleges confirmed receipt of the funds on 26
April 2006
Certificates of transfers sent to the National
Department of Education on ..

7
Progress Report continued

Provincial workshops
- Training of colleges on Supply Chain
Management done in February 2006
- Training of colleges on Infrastructure
Development done in February 2006
Colleges assisted in the development of activity
plans (example attached to hand-outs)
Provincial recapitalisation project team
established consisting of
Acting Chief Director Vocational Education
Services
Provincial Project Manager (Director Level) and
an SES
Eight college principals and college project
managers

8
Progress Report continued

Colleges held information session to apprise
staff on progress on recap project
Project management plans for all areas written
Management structures established (Project Teams)
consisting of
Principal of the college
Project managers appointed by council
Senior managers
Council representative
Monthly reports submitted to the Province on 15th
of each month (example attached to hand-out)

9
Progress Report continued

Strategic Area 1 Curriculum Development
- Lecturers to teach new programmes have been
identified
- Committees for Sub-fields are being appointed
- List of resources have been drawn up
- Task Teams have been appointed to develop
programmes with colleges that are in partnership

10
Progress Report continued

Strategic Area 2 Human Resource Development
- Lecturers to teach new programs are
identified
- Identification of Staff Training Needs
according to requirements of new programs in
progress
- Training taking place in soft skills (project
management, computer training, assessor
training, language proficiency)

11
Progress Report continued

Strategic area 3 Development of systems and
procedures
- Procurement Systems reviewed and adapted to
SCM requirements
- SCM audit documents drafted
- Meeting with IT Departments on linking and
upgrading of campuses held (partnership on this
matter is established)
IT requirements to upgrade system identified
Preparation of Bid Documents in progress
Preparation of scooping and business design in
progress

12
Progress Report continued

Strategic area 4 Upgrading/refurbishing/
alterations etc
- Architects to advise on buildings advertised
and to some appointed
- Bid Documents drafted and to some finalised

13
Progress Report continued

Strategic area 5 Upgrading of sites
(landscaping)
- Formulation of Bid Documents in the process

14
Progress Report continued

Strategic area 6 Buying/building of new
classrooms
- Meeting with Municipalities to discuss
approval of plans and purchase of land held
- Bid documents in progress

15
Progress Report continued

Strategic Area 7 Purchase of equipment
- List of items and training aids in certain
sub-fields finalised
- Equipment already purchased by some of the
college (Lovedale, Buffalo City) and in the
process of being purchased by the others

16
Plans for Current Financial Year

Monitoring and evaluation
Operational plans form basis for monitoring and
support
Colleges submit monthly reports to Province (15th
of each month)
Province to submit quarterly reports to National
Department of Education
Monitoring started on 29th of May and to end 22nd
June 2006 (Visitations to colleges by Province)
Repeat visits to risk colleges to start on 6th
July

17
Challenges

Unskilled educators Province is engaging
provincial HEIs to address this problem
Staffing - Province making sure that vacancies at
colleges filled as a matter of urgency
Under funding Acting Superintendent General
looking into this matter
Increasing enrolment to 100 000 by 2014
Low enrolments
- Colleges asked to develop strategies
- Need for more effective articulation between
senior GET phase and FET programmes
- Address negative attitude of learners and
parents to FET colleges in particular and
society in general

18
Challenges continued

Better alignment between ABET and FET college
programmes
Pivotal role of FET colleges in Local Economic
Development and Provincial Government Procurement
initiative
Time constraints for infrastructural components
Availability of educators for re-skilling and
up-skilling in terms of teaching time
Getting all engineering workshops equipped
according to minimum requirements
Slowness in expenditure

19
Successes

Transfers made on time by Province to colleges
Programmes for 2007 identified
Educators being trained
Buy-in by college stakeholders
College connected to the internet (particularly
rural colleges)
Appointment of a provincial project manager
Manufacturing of gas stoves for the SNP
Twinning arrangement with Lower Saxony Education
Department in Germany
- Servers donated to colleges
- Assisting with roll-out of eLearning in
colleges

20
Conclusion

FET colleges in Eastern Region of Province, where
? of population reside, are under-resourced and
face serious backlogs
- Workshops not well-equipped
- Educators under-qualified
- Low enrolment, but also lack of commerce
industry
Twinning with better resourced colleges in
Western Region
Twinning arrangement with Lower Saxony in Germany
affords opportunity to leapfrog technological
divide in FET programmes

21
End of Presentation