The main purpose of the programme is to promote quality teaching and institutional performance through the effective supply, development and utilisation of human resources. The Sub-programmes are Education Human Resources Management and Education Human Resources Development. The strategic objectives of the Branch can be summed up as follows: . To ensure that the new teacher development plan is translated into a wide range of teacher training materials, collaborative professional development activities within the schooling system and agreements with relevant service providers . To establish the National Institute for Curriculum and Professional Development (NICPD) in order to promote best practices in classroom teaching and teacher development . To establish an ongoing national campaign for choosing teaching as a career, based on research into who becomes a good teacher and focusing on imparting information and bursaries to interested youths . To bring about a set of planning, management and accountability tools at the school level that cater for South African needs and make quality education more realisable . To develop training strategies and materials aimed at parents that integrate them into new accountability mechanisms being established for schools . To establish better and evidence-based practices and procedures for the country's 82 education district offices, including models for school interventions designed to tackle specific school shortcomings.