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PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION

PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION. ENSURING QUALITY THROUGH EDUCATION DISTRICTS by Palesa T. Tyobeka Deputy Director-General: General Education and Training 09 November 2007. The place of Districts in the Education System.

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PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION

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  1. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE PRESENTATION ENSURING QUALITY THROUGH EDUCATION DISTRICTS by Palesa T. Tyobeka Deputy Director-General: General Education and Training 09 November 2007

  2. The place of Districts in the Education System • Education districts are the link between education sites and provincial education departments in the pursuit of quality education. • They play a pivotal role in ensuring that education needs are understood and addressed and that national learning objectives are achieved. • Districts have to date been organized according to provincial preferences/needs. • Education district nomenclature and structures also differ from province to province. • The intensity and quality of service delivery varies considerably from district to district across the country.

  3. Education district services pre:1994

  4. Current profile of services • Services still affected by pre 1994 provisioning; • Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng top three provinces and also able to provide more district services; • Rest of provinces offering more limited basket of services in line with resources inherited from huge homeland administrations.

  5. The legal position • An education district has no precise legal definition in South Africa; • Education districts have no original powers or functions prescribed by law; • In each province, districts are demarcated and named, and their staff complements established by the MEC for Education in terms of the Public Service Act of 1994.

  6. The changes that must be made • District offices • Must be established and defined in law • as centers of support for quality learning, appropriately staffed for the purpose; • become centres of real authority; and • have the capacity to give professional support of high quality to educators and leaders in schools/ education sites.

  7. Towards a policy framework • Policy Development process started that • Expresses a national vision for education districts in the transformation of education system, • Determines standardized roles, powers and responsibilities • Provides a normative framework for their management and operation including support to educational sites.

  8. Scope of the policy framework cont… • It will ensure a common understanding of: • The concept of an education district and related responsibilities; • The powers delegated to district managers; • The structural components of an education district office, represented in an organogram;

  9. Basket of services delivered by districts • A district office is responsible for delivering a basket of services to education institutions • Such services have one overriding purpose: to advance the implementation of quality education and improved service delivery in all education institutions

  10. Basket of services delivered by districts cont • A districts basket of services comprises: • Planning and co-ordinating the roles, support and functions of Circuit Managers and multi-functional teams of educators and officials • Co-ordinating, implementing and monitoring curriculum and development support services • Co-ordinating and implementing institutional development, management and support services • Facilitating and co-ordinating education services and programmes, including social and specialized functions • Rendering financial and supply chain management services • Planning, co-ordinating and implementing school psychological, guidance, life skills, social, remedial and therapeutic services for all learners

  11. Towards a policy framework for districts • Policy development process advanced to ensure: • Uniformity of districts nationally in terms of roles and responsibilities and relationship to school management and governance; • Standardization of terminology, systems and structures, staffing, and operations of districts across the education system as detailed in the proposed Education Management Service manual; • An organogram that details the purpose and function of the various components that make up a district office and the number of posts that are required there;

  12. Broad time-frames • Final draft being discussed with Provincial HoDs on 13th November 2007; • Approval by CEM January 2008 • Costing of implementation needs and phasing in by January 2009

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