PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE STRATEGIC PLAN 2008-2012 AND BUDGET AND OPERATIONAL

1. PRESENTATION TO THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE STRATEGIC PLAN 2008-2012 AND BUDGET AND OPERATIONAL PLANS 2008-2009

2. Minister’s continuing vision To impact more urgently and directly on: poverty, unemployment and social cohesion, by providing quality education for all.

3. Continuing approaches • Evidence based policy approaches • More effective implementation • Improved information about the system • Monitoring learner performance through learning outcomes • Using ICTs to enhance teaching and learning • Building partnerships: Business and NGOs

4. Minister’s Five Broad Priorities Dealing with poverty with special attention given to: • the cost of education and the declaration of “no-fee” schools; • the National School Nutrition Programme; and • Rural Education Human Resource Development with particular focus on: • Further Education and Training (Schools and Colleges) • Higher Education outputs • Adult Education and Mass Literacy; and • Co-ordination of Human Resource Development Quality Improvement Health Education Institutional Development

5. Ministerial Goals for 2008/09 • Improving learning outcomes, especially reading, writing and numeracy, as well as in Maths and Science, • Preparing for e-Learning in schools • Increasing the number of “No Fee Schools” • Finalising the recapitalisation of FET Colleges. • Implementation of Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign • Review of Adult Education programmes • Implementing the Education Laws Amendment Act (2007) • Building on Funza Lushaka teacher bursaries • Improving the School Nutrition Programme

6. Departmental Strategies • Emphasising continuity and stability • Strengthening monitoring and evaluation • Better data through EMIS and LURITS • Using research to understand and improve the system • Prioritising teacher development and performance, and • Strengthening the capacity of districts.

7. Department Structure Branches • Administration • Planning and Monitoring • General Education and Training • Further Education and Training • Social and School Enrichment Programmes • Higher Education

8. Systems Planning and Monitoring • Developing national norms and standards for school infrastructure. • Strengthening EMIS to enhance planning and monitoring • Analysing and reporting on education expenditure and investment to promote budgeting. • Ensuring effective and efficient labour relations, and improved conditions of service through the Occupation Specific Dispensation for teachers. • Reporting on Service Delivery Improvement Plans in the education sector. • Developing and maintaining funding norms and standards for all components of the education system.

9. General Education • Expanding access to quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) opportunities, particularly in poor communities. • Implementing QIDS UP initiatives through resource provision in schools • Ensuring effective implementation of the curriculum for improved learning. • Implementing Inclusive Education policy to increase accessibility of learners with disabilities and training of teachers to accelerate implementation.

10. General Education • Attracting and retaining appropriately qualified and competent teachers, with emphasis on scarce skills • Ensuring effective professional leadership at school and district levels of the system. • Strengthening outcomes monitoring and evaluation through the Evaluation Unit initiative. • Ensuring effective professional leadership in schools. • Credible and up-to-date data on school performance and learner achievement

11. Further Education and Training Schools • Increase the number of FET learners, emphasising language, mathematics and science proficiency; • Ensure modern, relevant and high-level curricula in Grades 10 to 12, as well as in FET colleges; • Implement a national examination system for the National Senior Certificate. • Monitor and support the goals of the White Paper on e-Education

12. Further Education and Training Schools • Support the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) in Grades 10 to 12. • Publish Grades 10, 11 and 12 textbook catalogues. • Publish reports on the results of the National Senior Certificate examinations. • Respond to dropout and repeater rates in Grades 10 to 12. • Increase the number of Dinaledi schools

13. Further Education and Training Colleges • Develop programmes and gazette requirements for the National Certificate (Vocational). • Build partnerships with FET stakeholders e.g. SETAs, business and universities. • Continue the recapitalisation of FET colleges, based on the FET programmes offered at each college. • Address norms and standards for FET colleges.

14. Further Education and Training Colleges • Improve the throughput and placement rates of College students. • Support the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in teaching and learning at all FET College campuses. • Support colleges in providing credible assessments of learning.

15. Social and School Enrichment • Creating safe and caring schools by supporting schools that experience high crime and violence levels; • Increasing the participation and success rates of girl learners in gateway subjects; • Reviewing Adult Education and Training (AET); • Implementing the Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign. • Facilitating the implementation of School Sports • Providing support and strengthening curricula driven HIV and AIDS activities through peer education • Ensuring the successful implementation of the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP).

16. Higher Education • Providing regulatory support to higher education • Providing academic, research and institutional support • The internationalisation of higher education, particularly in regard to the African continent. • Strengthening of planning to support the production of quality graduates relevant for socio-economic development. • Achieving institutional diversity in the higher education system, including the National Institutes of Higher Education in Mpumalanga and Northern Cape.  • Monitoring and evaluation of the sector.

17. VOTE 13: EDUCATIONConsolidated Education Expenditure from 2008/09 to 2010/11

18. Provincial Education Departments: 2008/09 to 2010/11

19. VOTE 13: EDUCATION: SUMMARY

20. VOTE 13: EDUCATION: SUMMARY

21. VOTE 13: EDUCATION: PRIORITIES

22. Education System Priority Bids2008/09 – 2010/11 • Total Sector bid for 2008 MTEF amounted to R17,8 billion as follows: - School Infrastructure: R2,705 billion - NSNP: R1,759 billion - Expansion of Inclusive Education : R1,540 billion - Expansion of Grade R: R3,656 billion - ECD (EPWP): R821,651 million - Personnel (OSD): R7,020 billion - Text Books For NCS Grade 10-12 : R332,757 million • Preliminary allocations for these priority areas over the 2008 MTEF amount to R11,005 billion

23. Thank you