education

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education Department of Education REPUBLIC OF
SOUTH AFRICA
STRATEGIC PLAN 2005 2009 And Operational Plans
2005/6
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The Planning System

• CONSTITUTION
• State of the Nation and PoA
• Ministers vision
• Premiers Speeches
• Departmental Plan
• MECs Budget Speeches
• Provincial plans

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Freedom Charter

• After 50 years,
• The doors of learning and culture shall be
  opened

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Programme of Action

• Principles
• Integrated delivery through clusters
• Government wide systems for
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• ICTs

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Economic Cluster

• To support the implementation of e-education
• Improved funding for FET Colleges
• Courses aligned with the needs of the economy
• Increased output of universities (including
  universities of technology) in priority sectors

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IRPS and JCPS Clusters

• International Relations, Peace and Security
• Provide capacity and support for the
  implementation of NEPAD programmes
• Justice, Corrections, Police and Safety
• New Drugs Master Plan to be finalised
• Rapidly reduce the number of children in police
  and prison custody, with emphasis on KZN, WC and
  Gauteng

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Social Cluster

• Programmes to address exclusion based on race and
  gender
• Rehabilitation of communities in line with TRC
  recommendations
• Review the impact of socio-economic
  transformation on social cohesion
• National School Nutrition Programme, including
  social mobilisation for food gardens.

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Social Cluster 2

• Integrated ECD Programmes as part of Expanded
  Public Works Programme
• Recapitalisation of FET Colleges, ensuring that
  they have the necessary infrastructure, capacity
  and programmes relevant to the needs of our
  economy
• Allocation of resources to improved teaching and
  learning, especially in maths and science
• Ensure a unified institutional culture in
  universities

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Social Cluster 3

• Update the school register of needs, and iron out
  the creases between the spheres of government to
  meet the objective of safe classrooms and healthy
  environments
• Ensure that there is no learner learning under a
  tree, in a mud school, or under dangerous
  conditions.

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Ministers vision

• To impact on
• poverty,
• unemployment and
• social cohesion,
• by providing a quality education for all.

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Strategies

• Policy clarity and stability
• Consolidation of gains by targeting support
• Focus on improving learning outcomes
• Monitor, evaluate and correct as necessary
• Strengthened responsiveness
• Innovation, including ICTs
• Partnerships

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General Education

• Consolidating quality following the introduction
  of the RNCS into Grades 0-6
• Revising the Language Policy
• Revitalising Art, Music and Sport at school
• Investing in quality teaching
• National Framework for Teacher Education
• Managing and rewarding performance

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General Education 2

• Expanded ABET and Literacy programmes
• Improved institutional governnace and district
  support
• Ongoing implementation of inclusive education
  strategies
• Development of an assessment protocol

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Further Education and Training

• Increase in headcount
• Relevant and responsive programme mix
• Improved success rate (70)
• Qualified and competent College staff
• Well managed and governed modern institutions,
  with efficient systems
• Partnerships with business and SETAs

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Further Education and Training 2

• National Resourcing Plan for the FET Sector
• Finalisation and implementation of programme
  based funding for Colleges
• Development of quality assurance systems for FET
  College programmes

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System Planning

• Ensuring access to schooling, especially for the
  poor
• Infrastructure audit, and national interventions
  in planning, design and construction of schools
• Re-design of Information System (EMIS)
• Establish Monitoring and Evaluation unit

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System Planning 2

• Analysis of education investment and expenditure
  to ensure equity and redress in resourcing
• Ensuring constructive labour relations in
  education
• Managing teacher supply and demand
• Managing bilateral and multi-lateral co-operation
  agreements, and conditional grants

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System Planning 3

• Reporting on Education for All (EFA) and
  Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
• Finalising the revised NQF
• Planning support for integrated programmes
• Growth and Development Summit
• ISRDP
• URP
• EPWP

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Quality Promotion and Development

• Continuous improvement in learning outcomes,
  while bridging the quality divide
• Levers to be used
• Regular assessment of achievement in critical
  learning areas at key levels of the system
• Support to Whole School Evaluation policy
• Focus on health programmes at school, including
  NSNP

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Quality Promotion and Development 2

• Policy guidelines for the promotion and
  governance of school sport, art and culture
• Increased participation in rural and urban nodes
• Support for the Ministerial Committee on Gender
  Equity

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Higher Education

• To support the production of quality graduates
  needed for the social and economic development of
  the country
• Enrolment Planning
• Greater articulation between FET and HE

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Higher Education 2

• To achieve equity in higher education
• Analysis of enrolment in terms of race and gender
• Assessing the nature and impact of institutional
  culture on achievement of equity
• To provide support to institutions for governance
  and management
• To promote and sustain research

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Higher Education 3

• To promote and support a leadership role for
  South Africa in Africa and the world
• A national conference on African studies
• Curriculum development linked to identity and
  values

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Corporate Services

• Provincial support and co-ordination
• Eastern Cape initiative
• Call Centre
• Monitoring procurement and supply of LTSMs
• Operationalising foreign policy priorities, and
  strengthening international relations, especially
  within SADC, Africa and the South (IBSA)

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• Thank you