Chairperson, the NFP supports the Vote, and would want to recommend that the allowances to schools for textbooks should be informed by the number of learners in order to achieve the one-learner, one-textbook objective.
The post provisioning norms, PPN, should be standardised so that you do not find the Western Cape talking of 1:34 when other provinces are at 1:40.
The KwaZulu-Natal department must be assisted as schools and classes there are overcrowded, but no new posts are being created because of financial constraints, we are told. The minimum pass mark should be 50%, not 30%. Driver's license tests and computer science must be made compulsory subjects in matric.
Grade R educators should be remunerated like all other educators as they are doing the same job as other educators.
The rural allowance must be properly budgeted for in order to attract highly qualified educators to rural schools.
Principals must be taken out of classrooms so that they can concentrate on the management of their schools. Thank you.