A SOCIAL MOBILIZATION PLATFORM FOR MAKING EDUCATION A SOCIETAL MATTER

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QUALITY LEARNING AND TEACHING CAMPAIGN
(QLTC)Portfolio Committee Briefing04 August
2015

• A SOCIAL MOBILIZATION PLATFORM FOR MAKING
  EDUCATION A SOCIETAL MATTER

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BACKGROUND

• Education must be elevated from being a
  Departmental issue into a societal matter
• QLTC is a social compact between education
  department, stakeholders and communities. QLTC
  endeavours to promote accountability to all
  signatories to the pledges and in striving to
  adhere to the non-negotiables
• The major thrust of the QLTC is to provide a
  platform for communities and broader society to
  actively and constructively become involved in
  the improvement of teaching and learning
• QLTC still remains a campaign in the form of a
  social compact between the Department and the
  social partners.

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PILLARS UNDERPINNING COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION

• Participation Communities and other
  stakeholders are consulted and contributing to a
  particular programme/intervention and are able to
  define and control their own development
• Collaboration Leaders must be involved
  consistently through all phases of the programme
  on an equal basis
• Partnership Is the shared recognition for
  implementation and success, transparency, and
  joint decision-making by all stakeholder
• Equity Success for the implementation of the
  programme must rest on equity being applied
  across all areas of society gender, race,
  class, literacy, and even health status. The
  quality of being just or impartial,
• Quality Quality must be achieved in all
  components of a successful campaign. All
  stakeholders must strive for quality  

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KEY FUNCTIONS

• QLTC structures are striving to ensure
• Since 2009 QLTC structures started working with
  different community structures and social
  partners in education throughout the country, in
  mobilizing society to play key and meaningful
  roles in education.
• It is launched in all the nine Provinces with
  varying levels of capacity, visibility and impact
  on the education system.
• North West, Free State, Mpumalanga and Qumbu
  District in the Eastern Cape have shown factors
  of good practise, and good models of State, Civil
  Society and Business partnerships in the
  education sector.

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CRITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS

• QLTC Launches Nationally By the end of 2012
  every province had established a Provincial QLTC
  committee and many had launched QLTC committees
  at a district as well as at school level.
• Issuing of the QLTC Guide An amount of R1.5
  million was set aside by the Department to
  produce an official QLTC document to use as a
  guide. The documents were designed, printed and
  100 000 copies distributed across all provinces,
  translated into all official languages
• The Success of the QLTC / ELRC collaboration
  ELRC funding of QLTC has contributed
  significantly during 2012/13, and subsequently
  extended to the 2013/14 financial year, has
  resulted in a dramatic improvement in the
  implementation and success of the QLTC with no
  less than over 7 100 schools QLTC committees
  having been established and trained since
  September 2013
• The Dynamic and Consequence of Community
  Involvement In provinces such as North West,
  Mpumalanga and the Free State, where the QLTC
  structures are functional, the community
  involvement is significant with representatives
  growing in confidence as they experience the
  rewards in improving teaching and learning. As
  examples of their involvement parents are
  monitoring non-negotiables in schools, e.g. late
  coming of learners, bullying of learners, etc.

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CRITICAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS
(Cont.)

• Nedlac Accord Adoption of Underperforming
  Schools Campaign The QCT was directed to
  advocate and monitor the NEDLAC Accord which has
  had the important consequence of no less than
  1410 schools having benefitted from the
  partnership with business community, communities
  and individuals.
• Significant Relationships with SACE and ELRC The
  SACE code of conduct and SACE programmes are at
  the core of the QLTC and it is noteworthy that
  the QLTC and SACE have a healthy and supportive
  working relationship which is mutually
  beneficial. QCT has been able to support the ELRC
  by monitoring on a school and district level
  labour matters in 42 districts visited since
  2012
• QLTC has managed to collaborate with other
  Departmental Units to support and monitor
  critical Departmental programmes e.g. monitored
  the state of readiness in preparation for the
  reopening of schools School Readiness
  Monitoring Template was developed and shared with
  QLTC stakeholders and Parliamentarians and
  councillors
• QLTC Directorate collaborated with National
  Examination and Assessment Directorate to monitor
  the writing of NSC examinations. The Areas or
  Districts identified as hot spots were mainly
  targeted for support and monitoring
• It is in the interest of the QLTC to have
  functional SGBs in schools. Hence the QLTC
  Directorate collaborated with the EMGD
  Directorate to mobilise communities and relevant
  stakeholders and monitored the 2015 SGBs in all
  schools as from 6 29 March 2015.

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QLTC ACHIEVEMENTS 2014/15

• In the past financial year QLTC achievements are
  as follows
• The Ministry of Basic Education visited Limpopo
  Province on ten occasions dealing with various
  aspects of community involvement in education
  such as, Kha ri Gude roadshows, SGB elections,
  communities calling for service delivery in
  education. Infrastructure challenges, that
  included sanitation and water. Through QLTC
  mobilization these izimbizo were successful and
  achieved their intended goals.
• In Mpumalanga the QLTC facilitated community
  meetings and stakeholder engagements working with
  the Ministry. Included in these meetings were
  school Principals and other education
  stakeholders. Through these stability returned in
  areas which were unstable and the Provinces
  performance is showing good signs of improvement.
• In the Eastern Cape, the QLTC was able to pay
  special attention to two troubled districts,
  Sterkspruit and Fort Beaufort. Communities and
  stakeholders were having tensions with the PED
  over several matters such as the post
  provisioning basket, redeployment of teachers and
  school mergers. QLTC developed interventions
  strategies and engagements and resolved some of
  the tensions. This work is ongoing.

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QLTC ACHIEVEMENTS 2014/15

• Through QLTC a major Education Summit was held
  in KZN, and that summit influenced the MECs
  budget speech of 2015 / 2016 financial year,
  which was talking to how to strengthen QLTC
  structures in the Province, and resources
  allocation.
• In the Northern Cape Province QLTC worked hard to
  demobilize tensions between the Road Forum and
  the PED and other formations. For a period of a
  month QLTC consulted with communities, Road
  Forum, PED and churches in making sure that there
  was constructive dialogue, preparing for the
  Minister and the MEC for Basic Education to go
  and appeal to the community to allow learners to
  go back to school.
• North West the QLTC presents the country with a
  good model of how a functional QLTC can
  positively impact on the education system. Both
  in terms of community mobilization and support
  from both the MEC and the HOD in the work of
  QLTC.

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QLTC ACHIEVEMENTS (CONT.)

• In the Free State the Premier and the MEC are
  using QLTC ward based structures to confront
  societal challenges such as youth drug abuse,
  teenage pregnancy, violence in schools and school
  safety. The QLTC programme is effective as a
  result of the Premier and the MECs involvement.
  
• In Gauteng a QLTC ward based imbizo was organized
  in Mogale City wherein the community and the
  education fraternity looked at supported by the
  Minister, MEC and Mayors. It is through that
  imbizo that even the Gauteng Education and Health
  Sub Committee is continuing to work with QLTC
  structures towards the Gauteng Education Summit.
• In the Western Cape Province QLTC structures have
  been doing a lot of work in the De Doorns farm
  areas, working with the Deputy presidents office
  through the concept of the war room to attend to
  child labour on the farms, the high consumption
  of alcohol in the community, alcohol foetal
  syndrome, teenage pregnancy and gang violence in
  the area. This work is still continuing.

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KEY QLTC PARTNERS

• SACE through education laws regulating teacher
  conduct and professional ethics.
• ELRC through dispute resolution mechanisms
• NEDLAC through the Basic Education Accord
  adoption of underperforming schools
• NECT - Where QLTC structures are fully
  functional, NECT has relied on QLTC structures to
  reach out to communities since both QLTC and NECT
  are targeting similar stakeholders
• NGOs in the education sector
• Different Government Departments
• Business Community
• Faith-based Communities

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Challenges in the implementation of QLTC

• QLTC operation must be appropriately located
  given the fact that it is a campaign directed by
  the Ministerial imperatives as derived from the
  Cabinet Programme of Action where QLTC is
  functional it is mainly situated in the MEC
  Offices QLTC should, where possible, not be
  hamstrung by bureaucratic red-tape in the
  execution of its mandate
• This campaigns requires that all stakeholders who
  pledged themselves to the campaign must play
  their role in advancing the aims and objectives
  of the campaign.
• The funding formula for this campaign requires
  review given its operational requirements.
• QLTC is a sub-committee of the SGB In the
  majority of Districts and Provinces there are no
  dedicated resources (personnel and financial) to
  administer the QLTC operation.

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FORTH COMING CAMPAIGNS

• The Drop all and Read Campaign community
  mobilization.
• Mobilizing communities about the libraries
  project
• Community awareness about the writing of ANA and
  NSC support for the Class of 2015.
• Mobilising communities and schools in curbing
  social ills, i.e. drug abuse, teenage pregnancy,
  bullying, school violence, etc.
• Kha ri Gude advocacy and community mobilization.
• Funza Lushaka community information sharing and
  awareness programme.
• Relations between the Schools and communities
  around the schools through SGBs of schools.
• Engaging the Faith Communities around the roles
  of the church in education and community values
  and morals.
• Provincial Education Summits in the nine
  Provinces

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LOCATION OF QLTC IN PROVINCES

• Free State PED MEC Office
• Mpumalanga PED MEC Office
• North West PED MEC Office
• Northern Cape PED MEC Office
• Eastern Cape PED MEC Office
• KwaZulu Natal PED MEC Office
• Gauteng PED MEC Office
• Western Cape SG Office
• Limpopo SG Office (EMGD)

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STRATEGIC ORIENTATION OF QLTC

• QLTC derives its strategic campaigns focus from
  the Cabinet and Ministerial programme of action.
• It also responds to communities needs in
  education.
• There is no permanent and fixed programme for
  QLTC, its focus changes from time to time
  depending on the needs as identified or
  articulated by the Ministry.
• The major task of QLTC in education is to be a
  catalyst for positive change, quality improvement
  and transformation.
• Central, and core to QLTC functions, is the ten
  point plan which are actualizing the Road Map for
  Education in South Africa.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

• To strengthen the QLTC and its functionality
  across provinces, consideration would be given to
  regulatory measures to guide QLTC activities
• QLTC to be located as far as possible, in the
  offices of the MECs, for its impact to be felt
  across the system.
• Adequate resources to be allocated for effective,
  timely interventions and responsiveness to
  critical developments on the ground.

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STRIVING TO MAKE ALL SCHOOLS CENTRES OF
EXCELLENCE