Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Education

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Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Education

• Strategic Plans and Budget 2004/05

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Government mandate 2004

• The mandate of the recently elected government
  identified these following issues for education
• Provide the skills required by the economy
• build capacity and provide resources across
  society to encourage self-employment
• An education system that is geared for productive
  work, good citizenship and a caring society
• Ensure that all South Africans, especially the
  poor and vulenrable, are fully able to exercise
  their constitutional rights and enjoy the full
  dignity of freedom

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Government mandate 2004

• Ensure that all children have decent classrooms
• further reduce the teacher/pupil ratio
• improve spending in favour of children and
  students from poor households and
• expand the school nutrition programme.

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Emerging issues

• Emerging from the Presidents State of the Nation
  Address are these issues
• National School Nutrition Programmes
• Adequate funding for FET institutions, ensuring
  alignment between their courses the needs of
  the economy
• Recapitalisation of FET colleges
• Expand the reach of ABET programmes, aligning
  with EPWP training
• Consolidate the merger of higher education
  institutions process
• All schools will have access to clean water
• Eliminate the phenomenon of learning under trees,
  existence of mud-schools other dangerous
  structures

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Education responses

• In meeting these challenges, the broad priorities
  of the education sector are
• Dealing with Poverty
• Skills Development
• Improvement in the System
• Health and Education
• Institutional Capacity

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Dealing with poverty

• Develop a school uniform policy
• Investigate the basic minimum package to
  relieve the poorest 40 of learners from paying
  school fees
• Investigate other options such as transport
  subsidies, boarding allowance etc
• Ammend the Funding Norms
• A national resource targeting table
• Compensate schools catering for the poorest
• Food security NSNP and Food gardens

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Skills development

• Improve ABET participation and relevance of
  programmes
• Partner with DoL, SETAs and NGOs
• Improve funding relevance of programmes in FET
  colleges
• Deepen and widen Maths Science Strategy
• Schools of Focused Learning
• DoE/DoL leadership role in NQF implementation
• Increase NSFAS ring fence for scarce skills

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Quality in education

• Implement Integrated Quality Management System
  (DAS, WSE)
• Finalise teacher development strategy
• Roll-out of ICTs for teaching and learning
• Roll-out of NCS at Grades 10 to 12
• Strengthen ACE, NPDE
• Delivery of infrastructure, elimination of
  dangerous structures learning under trees
• Values in education social cohesion
• Sports, arts and culture
• Quality in higher education

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Health and education

• Locate our HIV/AIDS programmes within the broader
  health issues
• Continue mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Role of nutrition in prolonging life
• A focus on reproductive health
• Health of children eyes and ears

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Institutional capacity

• Technical assistance to HE mergers
• Support FET institutions implement their
  strategic plans
• Recapitalisation of FET Colleges
• Management governance training
• District development to support schools
• Improve capacity at provincial and national
  offices

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Other programmes

• The Department has a number of other programmes
  that are in addition to the priorities outlined
• The next slides deal provides an outline of these
  programmes
• Also included is the budget of these programmes
  Vote 15, that only includes national programmes

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A

• R000
• Budget 2004/05 11 344 957
• Voted 2003/04 9 882 840
• Increase 1 462 117
• 14,79

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B
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Total grants to higher education institutions 9 865 504 8 913 752 951 752 11
Higher education institutions Higher education restructuring NSFAS (awards 8 800 504 500 000 565 000 8 212 144 168 608 533 000 588 360 331 392 32 000 7 197 6
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C
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Transfer of payments to public entities 52 541 37 713 14 828 39
NSFAS (administration) Council on Higher Education SAQA Umalusi 13 200 10 880 21 646 6 815 12 000 12 793 11 270 1 650 1 200 -1 913 10 376 5 165 10 -15 92 313
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D
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Transfer payments to 17 029 23 266 -6 237 -27
Fullbright Commission The Guidance, Counselling and Youth Development Centre for Africa in Malawi UNESCO membership fee SETA Jacob Zuma Trust Fund 1 654 100 15 000 275 1 568 100 16 388 210 5000 86 0 -1 388 65 -5 000 6 0 -9 31 0
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E
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Conditional grants to provincial education Departments for 960 779 442 888 517 891 117
Primary School Nutrition Programme (PSNP) HIV and AIDS Early Childhood Development Financial Management and Quality Enhancement in Education Poverty relief, infrastructure and job summit Thuba Makote Project Ikhwelo Project 6 000 6 000 6 000 12 000 70 000 64 000 50 000 6 000 -12 000 -70 000 -64 000 -50 000 0 0 0 0 0 0
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F
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Contributions 1 000 1 000 0 0
Commonwealth of Learning 1 000 1 000 0 0
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G
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000 Incr/ (Decr) Incr/ (Decr)
Departmental Services 436 104 262 221 173 883 66
Personnel Expenditure Operational costs Implementation of the revised national curriculum statement (GET) Curriculum writing and implementation 191 625 184 479 20 000 40 000 159 336 102 885 32 289 81 594 20 000 40 000 20 79 0 0
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H
2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000
Departmental service 436 104 262 221
Personnel expenditure 191 625 159 336
Operational costs 98 306 69 641
Programme 1 Programme 2 Programme 3 Programme 4 Programme 5 Programme 6 Programme 7 40 406 4 712 6 812 28 475 8 457 4 015 5 429 28 247 4 189 8 880 17 299 1 346 3 883 5 797
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2004/05 R000 2003/04 R000
Projects 86 173 33 244
Programme 1 Programme 2 Programme 3 Programme 4 Programme 5 Programme 6 Programme 7 Implementation of the revised national curriculum statements (GET) Curriculum writing and implementation (FET) 6 200 12 000 36 154 19 322 9 997 1 500 1 000 20 000 40 000 1 390 3 782 14 350 12 017 281 0 1 424 0 0
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JProjects for 2004/05
Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P1 Minister/Deputy Minister vehicles Security System Office building Dev publication of serv for electronic access Integration call centre with other call centres 1 670 700 2 000 380 1 450 6 200
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K
Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P2 Assistance to PEDs with funding of norms EMIS enhancement system development Establishment of budget office National Management Fund 2 000 8 000 1 271 729 12 000
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L
Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P3 Masifunde Sonke History Project Sanli EMGD Women in into management leadership Alternatives to corporal punishment Roles and responsibilities of parents Teacher development C2005 Teacher development Maths Science National Teacher Awards Upgrading of underqualified unqualified educators HIV and Aids for educators 1 200 366 8 600 1 800 1 500 1 200 1 501 7 942 7 995 2 900 150 1 000 36 154
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Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P4 Integration of senior secondary schools HIV and Aids programme Phasing OBE into FET band Single examination system Historical records Modernisation of packing and distribution Security System Cuban tutors Most improved schools Dinaledi ICT unit 803 686 4 848 261 1 747 2 373 598 4 243 314 2 804 645 19 322
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Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P5 Systemic evaluation Whole school evaluation School safety Policy on teenage pregnancy Sexual harassment Monitoring Networking on values in education Heritage celebration Professional development Legislative framework policy development National sports, arts culture National Audit 1 548 1 420 1 600 728 760 86 135 880 520 240 1 440 640 9 997
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O
Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P6 HEMIS system Mergers 800 700 1 500
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P
Programme Project Project Total R000 Programme Total R000
P7 School calendar Presidents report PASD UNESCO national commission 116 129 500 255 1 000
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Q
Increases Rm Rm
Subsidies to HE institutions Restructuring of HE Primary School Nutrition Programme NSFAS SAQA CHE Umalusi HIV Aids FET RNCS Service Conditions on 1 July 2003 Baseline 588,4 331,4 838,2 33,2 10,4 5,1 5,2 8,1 40,0 20,0 32,3 6,6 1 918,9
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R
Decreases Rm Rm
UNESCO CHE FNQE ECD Ikhwelo Thuba Makote (1,4) (7,0) (234,4) (100,0) (50,0) (64,0) 1 462,1
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Donor Funding in Cash 2004/05
PURPOSE Funds available 1/4/04
Rm
FRENCH 3.0
Training of educ executives Maths and Science 0.6 2.4
JAPANESE 6.2
World Bank Education Africa Reform Programme FET College Phase 1 FET College Phase 2 ECD, ABET, Schools 6.2 0.3 1.8 4.1
SWEDEN 21.8
Special Needs Education 21.8
FINLAND 12.6
Special Needs Education 12.6
BELGIUM (FLANDERS) 0.5
Whole school development 0.5
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PURPOSE Funds available 1/4/04
Rm
NETHERLANDS 49.2
Sectoral Budget Support Programme Phase 2 Writing of unit standards for FET (plus OBE) FET inst dev for distance education Upgrading of unqualified and under-qualified educators Rewriting of Curriculum Statements District dev Capacity of district level officials Evaluation of conditional grants Education portal and online LSM FET Introduction of learnerships in FET institutions Safety in Schools Special Programmes RAIN project Unallocated 49.2 5.6 0.1 1.0 21.7 0.9 1.9 3.9 1.3 7.5 1.3 2.0 1.9
TOTAL 93.3
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DONOR FUNDING IN KIND 2004/2005
PURPOSE Funds available 1/4/04
DflD Rm
Education Support Project Phase 2 Values, Human Right Anti-racism Skills Development co-ordinator NQF Review Life Skills FET Reform of Technical Colleges EMIS FET HIV/AIDS Higher Education Emerging Initiatives Project Management 46.7 6.1 0.1 0.9 14.6 7.7 1.4 4.5 3.9 6.2 1.3