Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Education Strategic Plans and Budget 2004/05.

Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Education

Strategic Plans and Budget 2004/05

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;

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.

Emerging issues

Emerging from the President’s 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

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

Dealing with poverty

Develop a school uniform policyInvestigate 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

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 StrategySchools of Focused LearningDoE/DoL leadership role in NQF implementationIncrease NSFAS – ring fence for scarce skills

Quality in education

Implement Integrated Quality Management System (DAS, WSE)

Finalise teacher development strategyRoll-out of ICTs for teaching and learningRoll-out of NCS at Grades 10 to 12Strengthen ACE, NPDEDelivery of infrastructure, elimination of dangerous

structures & learning under treesValues in education – social cohesionSports, arts and cultureQuality in higher education

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 lifeA focus on reproductive healthHealth of children – eyes and ears

Institutional capacity

Technical assistance to HE mergersSupport FET institutions implement their

strategic plansRecapitalisation of FET CollegesManagement & governance trainingDistrict development to support schoolsImprove capacity at provincial and

national offices

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

A

R’000Budget 2004/05: 11 344 957Voted 2003/04: 9 882 840Increase 1 462 117

+14,79 %

B

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Total grants to higher education institutions

9 865 504

8 913 752

951 752

11

Higher education institutionsHigher education restructuringNSFAS (awards

8 800 504

500 000565 000

8 212 144

168 608533 000

588 360331 39232 000

7197

6

C

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Transfer of payments to public entities

52 541 37 713 14 828 39

NSFAS (administration)Council on Higher EducationSAQAUmalusi

13 20010 88021 6466 815

12 00012 79311 2701 650

1 200-1 91310 3765 165

10-1592

313

D

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Transfer payments to: 17 029 23 266 -6 237 -27

Fullbright CommissionThe Guidance, Counselling and Youth Development Centre for Africa in MalawiUNESCO membership feeSETAJacob Zuma Trust Fund

1 654

10015 000

275

1 568

10016 388

2105000

86

0-1 388

65-5 000

6

0-931

0

E

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Conditional grants to provincial educationDepartments for:

960 779

442 888

517 891

117

Primary School Nutrition Programme (PSNP)HIV and AIDSEarly Childhood DevelopmentFinancial Management and Quality Enhancement in EducationPoverty relief, infrastructure and job summit: Thuba Makote Project Ikhwelo Project

6 0006 000 6 000

12 000

70 000

64 00050 000

6 000

-12 000

-70 000

-64 000-50 000

000

0

00

F

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Contributions: 1 000 1 000 0 0

Commonwealth of Learning 1 000 1 000 0 0

G

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Incr/(Decr)

Incr/(Decr)

Departmental Services 436 104

262 221

173 883

66

Personnel ExpenditureOperational costsImplementation of the revised national curriculum statement (GET)Curriculum writing and implementation

191 625184 479

20 00040 000

159 336102 885

32 28981 594

20 00040 000

2079

00

H

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Departmental service 436 104 262 221

Personnel expenditure 191 625 159 336

Operational costs 98 306 69 641

Programme 1Programme 2Programme 3Programme 4Programme 5Programme 6Programme 7

40 4064 7126 812

28 4758 4574 0155 429

28 2474 1898 880

17 2991 3463 883 5 797

I

2004/05R’000

2003/04R’000

Projects 86 173 33 244

Programme 1Programme 2Programme 3Programme 4Programme 5Programme 6Programme 7Implementation of the revised national curriculum statements (GET)Curriculum writing and implementation (FET)

6 20012 00036 15419 3229 9971 5001 000

20 00040 000

1 3903 782

14 35012 017

2810

1 42400

JProjects for 2004/05

Programme

ProjectProject TotalR’000

Programme TotalR’000

P1 Minister/Deputy Minister vehiclesSecurity SystemOffice buildingDev & publication of serv for electronic accessIntegration call centre with other call centres

1 670700

2 000380

1 450

6 200

K

Programme



P2 Assistance to PED’s with funding of normsEMIS enhancement & system developmentEstablishment of budget officeNational Management Fund

2 0008 0001 271

729

12 000

L

Programme



P3 Masifunde SonkeHistory ProjectSanliEMGDWomen in & into management & leadershipAlternatives to corporal punishmentRoles and responsibilities of parentsTeacher development C2005Teacher development Maths & ScienceNational Teacher AwardsUpgrading of underqualified & unqualified educatorsHIV and Aids for educators

1 200366

8 6001 8001 5001 2001 5017 9427 9952 900

1501 000

36 154

M

Programme



P4 Integration of senior secondary schoolsHIV and Aids programmePhasing OBE into FET bandSingle examination systemHistorical recordsModernisation of packing and distributionSecurity SystemCuban tutorsMost improved schoolsDinalediICT unit

803686

4 848261

1 7472 373

5984 243

3142 804

645

19 322

N

Programme



P5 Systemic evaluationWhole school evaluationSchool safetyPolicy on teenage pregnancySexual harassmentMonitoringNetworking on values in educationHeritage celebrationProfessional developmentLegislative framework & policy developmentNational: sports, arts & cultureNational Audit

1 5481 4201 600

72876086

135880520240

1 440640

9 997

O

Programme



P6 HEMIS systemMergers

800700

1 500

P

Programme



P7 School calendarPresident’s reportPASDUNESCO national commission

116129500255

1 000

Q

Increases R’m R’m

Subsidies to HE institutionsRestructuring of HEPrimary School Nutrition ProgrammeNSFASSAQACHEUmalusiHIV & AidsFETRNCSService Conditions on 1 July 2003Baseline

588,4331,4838,2

33,210,45,15,28,1

40,020,032,36,6 1 918,9

R

Decreases R’m R’m

UNESCOCHEFNQEECDIkhweloThuba Makote

(1,4)(7,0)

(234,4)(100,0)(50,0)(64,0)

1 462,1

Donor Funding in Cash 2004/05

PURPOSE Funds available

1/4/04

R’m

FRENCH 3.0

Training of educ executivesMaths and Science

0.62.4

JAPANESE 6.2

World Bank: Education Africa Reform Programme FET College Phase 1 FET College Phase 2 ECD, ABET, Schools

6.20.31.84.1

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


1/4/04

R’m

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

49.25.60.11.0

21.70.91.93.91.37.51.32.01.9

TOTAL 93.3

DONOR FUNDING IN KIND 2004/2005


1/4/04

DflD R’m

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

46.76.10.10.9

14.67.71.44.53.96.21.3

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