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Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament's performance in first half of 2016/17: briefing by Secretary to Parliament & Parliamentary Budget Office
23 Nov 2016
Parliament was to surrender R72 million to the National Treasury because it had not used it. This emerged during discussion when the Secretary to Parliament briefed the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament about the mid-term performance of the institution. The Committee also heard that the performance ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Department of Higher Education and Training on Quarter 2 performance
23 Nov 2016
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET), reporting on its second quarter performance, said during the period under review it had achieved ten of the 12 planned delivery targets for its core programmes, which covered university education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), continuing education and training (CET), ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Parliament's performance April to September 2016: Parliamentary Researcher and Budget Office briefings
23 Nov 2016
The Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament had a pre-briefing by the Committee Researcher and Parliamentary Budget Office, preparatory to the Committee's engagement with the Secretary of Parliament on the institution’s performance in the first half of the 2016/17 financial-year.
The Committee Researcher pointed out that expenditure ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Legislation & international agreements implementation/review: DHET progress report; CATHSSETA on its Annual Report 2015/16
2 Nov 2016
The delegates of DHET briefed the Committee on progress on the implementation of the International agreements and on legislation due for review. The main drivers for educational cooperation are the exchange of best practices and benchmarking in a global context, pursuing international opportunities for human resource and ...
Basic Education
Improving Initial Teacher Education: DBE & DHET input; Continuing Professional Teacher Development (CPTD)
1 Nov 2016
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) made a joint presentation on the Implementation of Measures to Improve Initial Teacher Education Programmes and Continuing Professional Teacher Development. There are four key outputs of the Integrated Strategic Planning Framework for teacher education and ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
SAQA & CHE on their 2015/16 Annual Reports
26 Oct 2016
The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) noted that 92% of its 50 annual targets were achieved; of which six targets were exceeded and four targets were partially achieved. It received an unqualified audit outcome and 92% of the budget was spent. Key achievements were for the year ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Department of Higher Education and Training 2015/16 Annual Report: Auditor-General briefing
12 Oct 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training and the Select Education on Education and Recreation convened for a joint briefing on the audit outcomes by the Auditor-General South Africa (AGSA).
AGSA noted an improvement for the overall audit outcomes of this portfolio with a noticeable increase in clean audits ...
Joint Standing Committee on Financial Management of Parliament
Committee Report on Parliament’s 2015/16 Annual Report; Engagement with a delegation from Assembly of Republic Mozambique’s Board of Administration
12 Oct 2016
During the period under review, the RSA Parliament spent R1.6 million on flowers and antiques, bought a new fleet of vehicles which it could not satisfactorily account for, and staff members owe the institution R19 million while retired executive members were given 48 business class plane tickets.
All these surfaced ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Technical & Vocational Education and Training (TVET) & Community Education & Training (CET) sectors: DHET briefing
14 Sep 2016
The Department of Higher Education and Training, briefed the Committee on the latest developments in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector and on the state of Community Education and Training in South Africa. The Department cited from the onset that they were experiencing funding shortages with a current ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Governance, Finances & Administration: University of Zululand & University of Fort Hare briefing
7 Sep 2016
The Portfolio Committee on Higher Education and Training was briefed by the Universities of Fort Hare and Zululand on their governance, finances and administration.
The University of Fort Hare (UFH) said its Council had shown stability over the years, as the audit and risk committee had kept the institution on ...