NPFTED REPORT-BACK

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NPFTED REPORT-BACK

• Portfolio Committee on Education
• 27 February 2007
• Palesa Tyobeka
• Deputy Director-General General Education
• Department of Education

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Progress summary

• Revision of policy framework almost complete
• Implementation is already under way
• Recruitment campaign
• Fundza Lushaka bursaries
• CPTD programme planning and development
• Organisational support

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Revised policy framework

• Teacher education and the quality of teaching are
  rightly in national spotlight
• Teachers are strategic national asset, so policy
  framework must empower them
• Advice from stakeholders has been taken seriously
• Likewise lessons from HEQF reviews of teacher
  education programmes

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Revised policy framework

• Revision of policy framework is well advanced
• HEDCOM and CEM have been advised and consulted
  along the way
• Final document should be approved and published
  very soon
• Need to keep somewhat open-ended, to improve in
  light of experience

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Framework implementation

• Strong support for main components of framework,
  so
• Early implementation possible on several fronts
• DoE has moved ahead in partnership with
  provinces, HEIs and SACE

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Recruitment campaign

• Fundza Lushaka educate the nation is the
  banner under which our recruitment campaign is
  launched
• We are promoting teaching as a career of choice
  for very able, committed young (and mature) South
  Africans
• Watchwords challenge, service, fulfilment

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Recruitment campaign

• Campaign targets
• Top high school learners seeking a challenging
  and socially valuable career
• Higher education students looking to put their
  qualifications to best use
• Mature citizens wanting to switch to a more
  fulfilling career
• Former teachers who would like to return

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Recruitment campaign

• Intrinsic incentives
• Supreme challenge good teaching demands
  exceptional intellectual and moral commitment
  from exceptional people
• Fulfilment teaching, guiding children and young
  people brings lifelong satisfaction
• Social esteem high quality, value-based teaching
  is backbone of social transformation

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Recruitment campaign

• Material incentives
• Job security
• Improved teachers pay and career prospects
• Loan/bursaries from NSFAS for able but
  financially needy students
• Fundza Lushaka Bursaries for able students in
  priority areas of need

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• Fundza Lushaka Bursary Programme launched in
  December 2006
• Successful advertising campaign
• R120 million this year over 3 000 full-cost
  bursaries linked to service contracts
• Excellent response funds will be fully utilised

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• Excellent collaboration from HEIs (VCs,
  Registrars, Deans of Education)
• Outstanding co-operation from NSFAS which
  administers programme through hard-working
  student financial aid offices in HEIs
• MECs for Education and PDE HoDs give superb
  support Implementation Protocol ensures
  inter-provincial co-operation in placement of
  qualified bursary recipients

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• Eligible students in 2007
• BEd (students in years 1, 2, 3 or 4)
• BA/BSc/BCom/BTech (students in year 3 with majors
  suitable for admission to a PGCE, which students
  must commit themselves to enter after graduating)
• PGCE students
• Only in designated priority areas of need

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• Priority areas of need in 2007
• Grades R-9 Foundation Phase African Languages
  English Language Mathematics Natural Science
  Technology.
• Grades 10-12 African Languages English
  Language Mathematics Mathematical Literacy
  Agricultural Sciences Life Sciences Physical
  Science Agricultural, Civil, Electrical,
  Mechanical, Information and Computer Applications
  Technology Engineering Graphics and Design.

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• Eligible programmes and priority areas of need
  will be reviewed each year and amended if
  necessary
• Bursaries convert to loans if students default
• Defaulters must pay back according to NSFAS rules
  

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• All HEIs apply national selection criteria
  eligibility for academic programme above
  average grades interest in young people,
  commitment to teaching
• Provincial education departments participate in
  selection with Faculties of Education

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Fundza Lushaka Bursaries

• R180 million committed for 2008 4 500
  bursaries
• R400 million committed for 2009 9 000
  bursaries
• Plus bursary recipients in pipeline
• Adds up to massive national commitment to meet
  priority teaching needs

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• DoE/SACE working in partnership to plan and
  develop national programme
• Est. 18-24 months before fully operational
• But phased implementation necessary
• Meanwhile priority in-service programmes continue
  (NPDE, ACE)

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• CPTD programme is based on
• Supporting teachers own assessment of needs
  through IQMS
• Addressing defined weaknesses
• Using experience and expertise in the system as
  much as possible
• School-based activities as much as possible
• Developmental not punitive concept

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• SACE will be empowered to manage the national
  programme in terms of its statutory mandate
• All SACE-endorsed professional development
  activities will earn PD points
• All teachers will be expected to accumulate a
  target number of points each 3-year cycle

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• Success and risk factors are being studied by
  DoE/SACE task team to ensure feasibility of
  programme
• Serious risks must be avoided
• Less serious risks must be managed

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• Successful programme will require
• Confidence and support of teachers
• PD points system that will serve real
  professional needs
• Serious quality control and assurance
• Strong support by provincial, district, school
  leadership
• Robust, accurate databases for educators/programme
  s

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Organisational support

• Development and implementation of policy
  framework is getting strong support from
• DoE Inter-Branch Committee on Teacher Education
• DoE/SACE task team on CPTD
• DoE interaction with Deans of Education Forum
• CEM/HEDCOM oversight HEDCOM Sub-Ctee on Teacher
  Education for provincial liaison

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Organisational support

• Need for stakeholder advisory body will be kept
  under review
• Parliamentary oversight through Portfolio
  Committee on Education is highly appreciated

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Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)

• DoE will allocate R5 million to SACE for initial
  planning and development costs
• Other grants will follow as development plans are
  approved
• Investment cost of programme must be measured
  against total multi-billion Rand teacher salary
  bill
• CPTD is an investment in education quality the
  programme must produce more effective learning