Noting that inclusive learning, training, and the availability of sufficient teachers with specialised capabilities for inclusive education are critical to supporting learners with various conditions, (a) how are the Funza Lushaka recipients encouraged to take subjects on inclusive education in their initial training, and (b) what total number of teachers are produced for inclusive education through the Funza Lushaka bursary support? 

RESPONSE: 

Teachers ...

1. Treasury has not yet provided funding for the programme and there hasn't been progress thus far.

2. The submitted cost then was based on 13 465 required additional classes at the cost of R4 914,725.000.00

Introduction

The Department of Basic Education initiated the Second Chance Matric Programme (SCMP) in January 2016 to support learners who could not achieve subject passes in Matric. The Department will use the SCMP to support the Grade 12 learners who are currently writing matric exams in case they desire to rewrite the exams again in 2024.

The objective of the SCMP is to provide ...

Yes, the Department of Basic Education has mechanisms for monitoring and evaluating education in terms of Section 8 of the National Education Policy Act 27 of 1996; 

a) In response to the situation at Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School, the Director-General has established a Task Team to conduct an investigation and provide recommendations in terms of remedial actions; and 

b) the work on the infrastructure ...

1) No, the Department of Basic Education monitors and evaluates education in terms of Section 8 of the National Education Policy Act 27 of 1996. The direct monitoring of schools is the responsibility of provincial education departments (PEDs). 

2) The Minister has been informed of the situation at Ikhwezi Lokusa Special School in the Eastern Cape.  

3) The Department of Basic Education, through the ...

(1) all schools that require sanitation intervention are addressed under SAFE, ASIDI and also through the Education Infrastructure Grant (EIG)

(2)

All these schools are currently being addressed under the Sanitation Appropriate for Schools (SAFE) Programme.

Preparation for the 2023 National Senior Certificate examinations commenced almost 18 months ago so as to ensure that all processes are in place to administer the first examination question on 30th October 2023. The plans that were put in place over this period to prepare for this all important examination involved the following:

(a) Setting, internal moderation, editing, translation and  final approval of the 162 question ...

(a) Monitoring addresses planning, project implementation and project management, including time, quality and budget/expenditure in a project. These are interrogated and a sample of projects are visited. Based on the findings from these visits, remedial actions are devised with the province and monitored by the DBE.

•Monitoring deals with both programme and project matters;

• Programme matters include;

-The pattern of overall expenditure being achieved;

-Comparisons of ...

Table 1: Number of learners  above 18 who received social grant, in grades 9, 10, 11, and 12, in 2022