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VOTE 13: EDUCATION

VOTE 13: EDUCATION. PRESENTATION TO THE JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE FOR BRIEFING ON THE 2008 MEDIUM TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT. Vote 13: Education: Medium Term Budget Policy Statement. Medium term sector and departmental policy priorities

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VOTE 13: EDUCATION

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  1. VOTE 13: EDUCATION PRESENTATION TO THE JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE FOR BRIEFING ON THE 2008 MEDIUM TERM BUDGET POLICY STATEMENT

  2. Vote 13: Education: Medium Term Budget Policy Statement • Medium term sector and departmental policy priorities • Progress in meeting measurable objectives and performance indicators • Progress in meeting Millennium Development goals • Medium Term Expenditure Trends & Projections • Budgetary Additions Announced in the MTBPS for 2008/09 • Budgetary Additions Announced in the MTBPS for the 2009 MTEF • Departmental budget bids not agreed to • Budgeting Challenges and Unfunded Mandates

  3. Medium-term Policy Priorities • Dealing with poverty • No fee schools • NSNP • Enhanced Rural Education • Skills Development • Further Education and Training • Literacy • Adult Basic Education and Training • Human Resource Development • Quality Improvement • Implementation of NCS – Grades R to 12 • Implementation of Integrated Quality Management System • Improvement of Infrastructure

  4. Medium-term Policy Priorities (Cont) • Health and Education – Life Skills • Institutional Development • Merging of HEIs • Recapitalisation of FET Colleges • Clarification of roles and responsibilities of district management structures. • Higher Education

  5. Progress: Measurable Objectives and Indicators • LURITS – 800 schools interacting with LURITS after one month of implementation – It is expected that 4 000 schools will be interacted by the end of the financial year. • Funding norms for Grade R and ABET were gazetted and an implementation plan for the roll out of these norms was activated. • 616 450 learners are attending Grade R classes across the country. • Inclusive Education • Number of teachers and district officials trained to implement inclusive education = 1 600 (160% of target due to donor aid assistance). • Special schools and full service schools that are in the process of being upgraded and revamped = 42 (100% of target).

  6. Progress: Measurable Objectives and Indicators (Cont) • 500 Dinaledi schools are operational • 4 974 FUNZA LUSHAKA Bursaries have been awarded. • National Senior Certificate Examinations (NSC Examinations) • The NSC examinations will commence on 29 October 2008. • 1 389 Subject advisors received training in big enrolment subjects. • Training materials were provided to provinces to support the training of teachers. • NSNP – Fed approximately 6.135 million learners on all school days. • Number of learners registered at public adult learning centres = 206 770.

  7. Progress: Measurable Objectives and Indicators (Cont) • Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign • A total of 360 000 illiterate adults have enrolled (120% of target). • Learning material in the 11 official languages and Braille has been developed. • Higher Education Institutions • 780 000 students enrolled in public higher education institutions. • 130 781 students graduated at higher education institutions in 2007. • Performance measures of HEIs have been used to assess incoming data on enrollments and graduates for 2006 and 2007 against enrollment plans. • Monitoring of output efficiency, infrastructure development and foundation programmes took place. • Infrastructure and efficiency funding institutional progress reports have been analysed.

  8. Progress in meeting the Millennium Development Goals • Skills Development and Recapitalisation of FET Colleges • NSNP programme - 6.135 million learners • Kha Ri Gude programme - 360 000 adults learners receiving basic education and training • Establishing No Fee Schools • Introduction of universal Grade R • 98% of school going aged learners attending school • NSFAS – bursaries to the poorest of the poor • HIV and Aids Life Skills programme

  9. Medium Term Expenditure Trends & Projections

  10. Budgetary Additions Announced in the MTBPS for 2008/09 2008/09 Adjusted Estimates (DoE): • Funds rolled over for operational purposes = R32.720 million. • Funds rolled over i.r.o. conditional grants = R3.391 million. • Inflation adjustments R461.711 million of which NSFAS = R39 million, NSNP = R79.006 million & Higher Education Institutions subsidies = R343.705 million. • Unforeseen and unavoidable expenditure: NSNP = R265 million, Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign = R107 million & Disaster Management Grant = R22.002 million. • Total Adjustment = R891.824 million Provinces: • Salaries – not education specific = R5 billion • Other inflation related cost – not education specific = R2.2billion

  11. Budgetary Additions Announced in the MTBPS for 2009 MTEF

  12. Departmental Budget Bidsnot agreed for the 2008/09 budget cycle

  13. Sector Budget Bidsnot agreed for the 2008/09 budget cycle

  14. Budgeting challenges and unfunded mandates • The magnitude of infrastructure backlogs • Textbooks - high prices • No fee schools – Increase to basic minimum education packages • School Nutrition programme - Extension of the programme to all secondary quintile 1,2 & 3 schools • Learner Transport due to petrol price increases

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