education

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education Department of Education REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA
STRATEGIC PLAN 2006 2010 and Budget and
Operational Plans 2006/7
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Overarching Priority ASGI-SA

• The Department of Education contributes to the
  Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative South
  Africa, by
• Ensuring everyone receives a quality General
  Education
• Ensuring access to high skills, high cognitive
  demand curricula in schools and Colleges
• Ensuring participation in relevant Higher
  Education programmes

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Ministers continuing vision

• To impact more urgently and directly on poverty,
  unemployment and social cohesion, by providing
  quality education for all.
• We cannot became complacent about the
  continuing legacy of Bantu Education, whose
  demons have not yet been banished

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Ministerial goals for 2006/7

• Improve access to quality early childhood
  education
• School improvements, including infrastructure and
  learning resources
• Improving literacy and numeracy
• Mathematics and science improvements
• Support for Further and Higher Education

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Continuing approaches

• Policy clarity and stability
• Consolidation of gains by targeting support
• Focus on improving learning outcomes
• Monitoring learner performance
• Strengthened responsiveness to needs
• Innovation, including use of ICTs
• Building partnerships business and NGOs

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Departmental Strategies

• Strengthened monitoring and evaluation
• Using research to understand and improve the
  system
• Re-engineering EMIS to track individual learners
• Reaping our investments in teachers
• Building the capacity of the system, especially
  at local levels (Districts)

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Department Structure

• Branches
• General Education
• Further Education and Training
• Higher Education
• Quality Promotion and Social Cohesion
• Planning and Monitoring
• Administration

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General Education

• Expanding access to ECD through the Integrated
  ECD Plan of the Social Cluster, and using EPWP
  opportunities for training and employment
• Implementation of the NCS in Grades 8 and 9
  during 2007, with a focus on teacher training and
  resource provisioning
• Finalising the National Framework for Teacher
  Education, including a system for professional
  development points

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General Education 2

• Measuring the quality of learning at key stages
• Improving reading levels, especially in the
  Foundation Phase, through an ongoing reading
  strategy
• Continued emphasis on provision for children with
  special needs, to increase participation and
  achievement
• Improved professional support and advice for
  teachers at District level
• Convening successful SGB elections in 2006

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Further Education and Training

• FET BRANCH GOALS
• To develop and implement modern and relevant high
  skills programmes in schools and Colleges
• To implement a national examination system
• To increase participation of 16-24 year olds in
  FET programmes
• To increase the number of learners achieving well
  in language, mathematics and science

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FET Schools

• Implement new curriculum for Grades 10 12,
  including teacher training and textbooks
• Increase numbers of learners reaching and passing
  grade 12, with reduced dropouts
• Increase participation and success rates in
  languages, maths and science, including the
  identification of focus schools
• Set, mark and report on high quality examinations
  for the Senior Certificate and FETC
• Expand specialist subjects in poor areas

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FET Colleges

• Implement and monitor College recapitalisation
  plans
• Gazette requirements for FETC Vocational
  qualification, and develop programmes which
  address the needs of the SA economy and society
• Strengthen ties with SETAs, Universities and the
  private sector
• Improve participation and success rates at FET
  colleges
• Support the expansion of ICTs in Colleges

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Higher Education

• Providing regulatory support to the sector
• Providing academic and research support
• Developing a Framework for the Internationalisatio
  n of Higher Education, especially to promote and
  support a leadership role for South Africa in
  Africa
• Strengthened enrolment planning to ensure quality
  graduates in relevant fields
• The promotion of institutional diversity

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System Planning

• Finalise electronic infrastructure audit (NEIMS)
• Develop national norms for the design and
  construction of schools
• Strengthening the design of the Information
  Management System (EMIS)
• Ongoing analysis of education investment and
  expenditure to ensure equity and redress in
  resourcing

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System Planning 2

• Effective implementation of the Integrated
  Quality Management System (IQMS)
• Analysis and management of teacher supply and
  demand
• Supporting the Cabinet Committee on Human
  Resource Development

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System Planning 3

• Reporting on Education for All (EFA) and
  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Planning support for integrated programmes of
  government
• Monitoring and evaluating service delivery in
  education

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Social Cohesion

• Promoting health and wellness lifestyles among
  teachers and learners
• Co-ordinating and monitoring the NSNP
• Promoting equity in education and addressing
  social exclusion on the basis of race and gender
• Promoting values, national identity and moral
  regeneration
• Promoting quality education in rural and nodal
  areas

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Social Cohesion

• Promoting and governing school sport, art and
  culture
• Taking forward the report of the Ministerial
  Committee on Gender Equity
• Promoting access to and participation in ABET
  programmes, based on the report of the
  Ministerial Committee on ABET
• Collaborating with other Departments in regard to
  orphans and vulnerable children

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Administration

• Financial management of the budget
• Provincial budget support and co-ordination
• Monitoring procurement and supply of LTSMs
• Operationalising foreign policy priorities, and
  strengthening international relations, especially
  within SADC and Africa

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Presentation to the Portfolio Committee on
Education

• 2006/7 BUDGET
• AND
• OPERATIONAL PLANS

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General notes

• Higher Education Block Grant To increase the
  subsidies to higher education institutions to
  accommodate the increase in student numbers
• Implementation of the National Curriculum
  Statement To monitor the implementation in 50
  of the schools in a phased-in process to develop
  assessment guidelines
• HR Systems and Teacher Development Audit and
  survey of existing systems and capacities
• FET recapitalisation To increase the
  recapitalisation funding to FET Colleges
• Devolution of funds from Public Works These
  funds will be suspended from Public Works to
  cater for the rental and maintenance of the
  office building

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Notes

• Projects 2006/07
• National HR Plan HR IQMS System R6m
• EMIS Enhancement and System Development R20m
• Teacher Development (GET FET) R30m
• NCS Assessment R19m
• EMGD and District Development R6,4m
• Literacy and ABET R5,4m
• Exam System Enhancements R5,6m
• FET Curriculum Projects R14,4m
• Race and Values Projects R9,1m
• Merger Projects R3,3m
• International Conference R4m

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HIV AND AIDS

• 2006/07 R144,471 million.
• Some of the outputs for 2006/07
• 600 Master trainers to be trained on the
  integration of Life Skills and HIV and Aids
  programmes across all learning areas of the
  curriculum
• 25 000 Educators trained to integrate the
  programmes across all learning areas of the
  curriculum

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Achievements (HIV and Aids)
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National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP)

• 2006/07 R1 098,036 million
• Some of the outputs for 2006/07
• About 5,5 million learners at 17 000 targeted
  schools
• Targeted learners at schools are fed for all
  school days in all provinces
• Food gardens or small stock projects are set up
  in all participating schools, 4 500 schools

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NSNP (Achievements)

• 2004/05
• 238 School monitoring visits
• A toll-free number was opened to the public
• About 50 new gardens and/or small stock projects
  were started at schools
• 4,977 Million learners were fed on recommended
  menus on a minimum of 156 days
• 2005/06
• 5 135 Million learners were fed on recommended
  menus on a minimum of 156 days
• 3 107 Sustainable food production projects in
  schools
• 115 Workshops on gardening skills were held and
  were attended by 446 schools, 1 269 educators

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FET College Recapitalisation

• 2006/07 R470 million
• Some of the outputs for 2006/07
• 100 Practical workshops upgraded at 50 FET
  Colleges
• New equipment delivered and installed
• 216 Campus sites rehabilitated
• 2 000 College staff trained for curriculum
  development and programme delivery

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CONCLUSION

• Total budget increased by R1 732 million (13,97)
  from the previous financial year.
• Increase to Higher Education (HE) block grant
  10. This allocation is 75,42 of total budget
  allocated to the Department.
• Total allocation to conditional grants increased
  by 63. This allocation is 12,12 of the total
  budget allocated to the Department.

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• Thank you