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Basic Education
BELA Bill: Updated status, Basic Education BRRR
1 Nov 2022
The Committee received a progress update from the administrative team responsible for collecting comments from the public on the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Bill.
The Committee's content advisor reported that they had so far received 18 000 submissions, but due to a shortage of manpower had processed only ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Skills Fund (NSF) Annual Report 2021/22; NSF investigation: Ministerial Task Team Review & Forensic report response; Implementation of audit action plan response
28 Oct 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
The Committee convened on a virtual platform to receive a presentation from the National Skills Fund (NSF) on its 2021/21 annual performance report, and to hear the response from the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) to the Committee's questions following the ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
National Skills Fund investigation: Ministerial Task Team Review & Forensic report; Implementation of audit action plan; with Deputy Minister
26 Oct 2022
The Committee met virtually with the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to receive briefings on the reports of the Ministerial Task Team on the review of the National Skills Fund (NSF) and its forensic report into the misappropriation of R5 billion from the Fund. The Department reported ...
Basic Education
2022 Examinations-Readiness: DBE & Umalusi briefing; with Deputy Minister
25 Oct 2022
Budget Review & Recommendations Reports BRRR
Reporting to the Committee on the readiness for the 2022 Matric exams, the Department of Basic Education said that the Class of 2022 is the largest cohort to date. It is the class that has been most severely negatively affected by learning deficiencies ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
AGSA briefing on audit outcomes of DSI and its entities; Department of Science and Innovation, HSRC & South African National Space Agency Annual Reports 2021/22
19 Oct 2022
In a virtual meeting, the Portfolio Committee on Higher Education, Science, and Innovation received a briefing from the Auditor-General of South Africa on the audit outcomes of the Department of Science and Innovation and its entities, and briefings by the Department itself, the Human Sciences Research ...
Basic Education
Department of Basic Education, Umalusi & SACE Annual Report 2021/22; with Deputy Minister
18 Oct 2022
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
Council on Higher Education (CHE); South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA); Quality Council for Trades and Occupations Annual Reports 2021/22
14 Oct 2022
The Committee was briefed by the Quality Council for Trades and Occupations (QCTO), the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and the Council on Higher Education (CHE) on their annual reports for 2021/222. The entities reported on their non-financial and financial performance.
The QCTO said it had had to adapt ...
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
DHET Annual Report 2021/22
12 Oct 2022
Higher Education, Science and Innovation
DHET & DSI financial & audit performance: FFC & AGSA inputs
12 Oct 2022
The FFC emphasised the urgency for finding a new funding model for higher education that has been mentioned in the 2022 Division of Revenue and that it should be addressed swiftly to introduce the new funding model in 2023/24. The Commission is happy with the performance of DSI and ...
Basic Education
ASIDI & Conditional Grants; Education Audit Outcomes: FFC & AGSA inputs
11 Oct 2022
AGSA commended Umalusi for maintaining its clean audit for the past three years. It is encouraging to see the DBE maintain the unqualified audit opinion on its financial statements; however, it is a concern that it continued its non-compliance with laws and regulations, as well as findings on performance ...