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Memorandum from the Parliamentary Office
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
FOR WRITTEN REPLY
QUESTION 881
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: 23/03/2010
(INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER 8 OF 2010
Dr W G James (DA) to ask the Minister of Higher Education and
Training:
1) What is the (a) breakdown and (b) total budget of the stakeholder
summit on higher education transformation scheduled for 22 to 23 April
2010, including the preparations towards it?
NW1018E
REPLY:
1a) Breakdown of budget (in Rands)[1]
|Programme development | 46 850|
|Development of summit concept papers (including | |
|honoraria for plenary and commission presenters) |325 400 |
|Logistics, Planning and Project Management (including|138 000 |
|management of summit webpage) | |
|Scribing (including synthesis report of pre-summit |118 400 |
|submission, recording of summit proceedings) | |
|Development of proceedings report and summit report |125 400 |
|using blogs/submissions | |
|Travel costs | 46 204|
|Printing for conference report | 102 400|
|Consumables | 30 050|
|Contingency | 67 596|
|Management fee | 124 727 |
|Catering costs | 219 161 |
|VAT | 155 806 |
| | |
|TOTAL |1 500 |
| |000[2] |
1b) It must be highlighted that the budget for the Summit does not
utilise voted funds but donor funding. The total budget of the stakeholder
summit amounts to R1.5Â million. A Summit Steering Committee (SSC) was
appointed by the Minister who oversees the planning of the summit, the
development of the programme, the management of the event and, the
production of the report. The SSC is stakeholder driven with representation
from HESA, the CHE, SAUS and organised labour. A service provider was
appointed to undertake all the organisational work and to manage the
summit. The committee has met several times and will meet again on 15 April
to finalise the preparations. An advertisement, calling for submissions
from higher education stakeholders was placed in the Mail & Guardian, The
Sunday Times and the City Press.
Compiler/ contact persons: PK Whittle
Ext: 5248
DIRECTOR âGENERAL
STATUS:
DATE:
QUESTION 881 APPROVED/NOT APPROVED/AMENDED
Dr B NZIMANDE, MP
MINISTER OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING
STATUS:
DATE:
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[1] Total number of delegates expected is 400.
[2] The budget is donor funding, not voted funds.