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Basic Education
Schools 2018 Re-opening: status report: National Senior Certificate Exam 2017 outcomes and evaluation
13 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) met with the Committee to present on school readiness monitoring for the 2018 academic year and the outcomes of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination. The presentation focused on learner admissions and registration, undocumented learners, teacher provisioning, Learning and Teaching Support Materials (LTSM ), ...
Basic Education
2017 Examinations standardisation: Umalusi briefing
7 Feb 2018
UMALUSI said it was satisfied that it had diligently executed on its quality assurance mandate of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations. UMALUSI noted that standardisation was an international practice to mitigate the effect of factors other than the learners’ knowledge and aptitude on the learners’ performance. UMALUSI then spoke ...
Basic Education
Provincial Education Departments Performance Indicators: roundtable discussion
6 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and Provincial Education Departments (PEDs) had a roundtable discussion with the Committee on indicators and targets for PED Annual Performance Plans (APP). The Auditor General had raised a concern that certain indicators in the 2014-2019 Medium Term Strategic Framework were not indicated in the ...
Public Service and Administration
Government employee housing; Pension payout fast tracking; Distressed mining towns: DPME report; Labour court orders non-implementation by departments: PSC report
29 Nov 2017
The Public Service Commission (PSC) briefed the Committee on the non-implementation of arbitration and labour-related court orders by government departments, and said it held the view that this had negative implications for labour relations in the work place and caused distress and bankruptcy for affected employees. The Commission’s study showed ...
Basic Education
Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Draft Bill: DBE briefing
28 Nov 2017
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) presented the amendments to the draft Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill to the Committee, highlighting that the most controversial amendments referred to the power granted to the Heads of Departments (HODs). It said that some of the changes were intended to bring about ...
Public Service and Administration
Presidential Hotline Report; Budget cuts impact; Public sector salary negotiations
22 Nov 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Committee on the operation, successes and challenges faced by the Presidential Hotline. The Hotline was part of the government’s monitoring tools, and allowed it to feed citizen-collected data into the policy system, to change programmes and monitor the quality of ...
Public Service and Administration
Department response to Mpumalanga oversight recommendations; Limpopo and Mpumalanga progress on oversight recommendations
15 Nov 2017
The Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) briefed the Portfolio Committee on Public Service and Administration on the progress made on the signing of performance agreements by Heads of Departments (HoDs) in Mpumalanga and Limpopo, and on the 30-day payment of suppliers.
The DPME reported it had achieved a ...
Basic Education
Learner Pregnancies: Basic Education, Social Development, Health Departments briefing
14 Nov 2017
The Committee heard that there are varying statistics on learner pregnancies because departments source their information from different places. The General Household Survey is used by Stats South Africa. The Department of Health only collects data from the deliveries of young girls under the age of 18 in health facilities. ...
Public Service and Administration
DPME, NYDA, Stats SA & DPSA Quarter 2 performance; with Deputy Minister
8 Nov 2017
The National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) briefed the Committee on its performance and financial information for the second quarter of the 2017/2018 financial year. The Agency’s achieved 65% of its year to date targets, which equated to 14 of 21 targets being achieved under the second quarter. NYDA spent 95% ...
Basic Education
Update on School-Readiness for 2018 preparations & Learner Transport: Department of Basic Education briefing; Committee reports
7 Nov 2017
The Department of Basic Education briefed the Committee on school readiness for the 2018 academic year and learner transport. The presentation included giving Members the assurance that more than 28 million volumes 1 and Grade R workbooks for 2018 had been printed and delivered to 23 565 school countrywide for ...