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Standing Committee on Appropriations
Committee Report on 2018 Division of Revenue Bill
14 Mar 2018
The Standing Committee on Appropriations considered and adopted its Committee Report on 2018 Division of Revenue Bill. The Committee Report stated that the Committee received a briefing on the Bill from the National Treasury and also had engagements with the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC) and the South African Local ...
Basic Education
DBE Budget: AGSA briefing; Progress in Implementation of the Action Plan to address Audit Outcomes, with Deputy Minister
13 Mar 2018
The Committee met with the Department of Basic Education (DBE), accompanied by the Deputy Minister, and the Auditor-General of SA (AGSA) to consider progress made with the action plan to address the audit outcomes and findings of the 2016/17 financial year. The AGSA presented the reviewed draft 2018/19 Annual Performance ...
Basic Education
School infrastructure: update on ASIDI, with Deputy Minister
6 Mar 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) was initially supposed to brief the Portfolio Committee on Basic Education on its 2nd and 3rd quarterly reports; and to provide an update on the Accelerated School’s Infrastructure Development Initiative (ASIDI), especially in light of the negative reports. The update on ASIDI took longer ...
Basic Education
ICT Roll-Out in Schools; School Governing Board (SGB) Elections; with Minister and Deputy Minister
27 Feb 2018
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) briefed the Committee on the current preparations for school governing body elections, which would take place from March 2018. The complexity of the election process was highlighted, especially with regard to uniformity across the provinces. Although the overall percentage of readiness was good, it ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...