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Whole School District Approach: NECT progress report; Basic Education BRRR
16 Oct 2018
2018 Budget Review & Recommendations Reports – BRRR
This was a roundtable meeting with the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT), which was given an opportunity to present an updated report on the impact and challenges of its programme.
The NECT said that there had been growth in the programme, but ...
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Department of Basic Education, Umalusi, SACE 2017/18 Annual Reports; with Deputy Minister
10 Oct 2018
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education was briefed by the Department of Basic Education (DBE), the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (Umalusi), and the South African Council of Educators (SACE) on their annual reports.
The Deputy Minister for Education highlighted some items that ...
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Examination Readiness 2018: Department and Umalusi briefing
9 Oct 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and Umalusi briefed the Committee on their state of readiness for the 2018 examinations. The DBE’s presentation was in two parts. The first part dealt with learner readiness for the 2018 examinations. A lot of focus has been put into getting learners ready for ...
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Schools for the Deaf: DEAFSA; DBE; UMALUSI; Principals Organisation roundtable
12 Sep 2018
This was a roundtable meeting where stakeholders in deaf education were given a chance to express their grievances and achievements with regard to deaf education in South Africa. The Department of Basic Education (DBE) attended in order to report on its involvement in the process thus far.
DeafSA said education ...
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Department of Basic Education Quarter 1 performance
4 Sep 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) present the First Quarterly Report on its performance in meeting its strategic objectives for 2018/19. It highlighted its performance outputs against the planned targets in the Annual Performance Plan and its Quarter 1 expenditure for 2018/19.
• The Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill task ...
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Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC); 2017 National Senior Certificate Consolidated Results, with Minister
28 Aug 2018
The Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign is geared to mobilising stakeholders to play a role and take responsibility for the attainment of quality learning and teaching. The QLTC has been repositioned to respond to the dictates of the Education Action Plan to 2019: Towards the Realisation of Schooling 2030. Some ...
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History as a compulsory subject; Rural Education Draft Policy: with Deputy Minister
21 Aug 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) met with the Portfolio Committee to discuss the proposed introduction of history as a compulsory school subject, and also presented its proposals for a draft rural education policy.
The Deputy Minister said the approach and value sought from history being taught was to create ...
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Department of Basic Education Quarter 4 performance
5 Jun 2018
The Department on Basic Education (DBE) met with the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education to present itas fourth quarterly report for the 2017/2018 financial year. DBE reflected on the fourth quarter outputs achieved in comparison to the planned targets of the pre-determined objectives for the year; as well as the ...
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Safety in Schools; ETDP-SETA collaboration with Department
22 May 2018
Equal Education presented their submission on safety at schools, and focused their presentation on the research that they had conducted on school safety and school violence, which showed that one in five learners were victims of violence each year. It had come before the Committee because it was of the ...
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Violence Against Children: Save the Children SA briefing
15 May 2018
Save the Children told the Committee it believed that every child deserved a future, and that the organisation provide children with a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. It had offices in five provinces -- Gauteng, KZN, Limpopo, Mpumalanga (partly) and the Free State. ...