briefing to the portfolio committee on education strategic plans and budget 2004/05
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Briefing to the Portfolio Committee on Education
Strategic Plans and Budget 2004/05
Government mandate 2004
The mandate of the recently elected government identified these following issues for education :
Provide the skills required by the economy; build capacity and provide resources across society
to encourage self-employment; An education system that is geared for productive
work, good citizenship and a caring society; Ensure that all South Africans, especially the poor
and vulenrable, are fully able to exercise their constitutional rights and enjoy the full dignity of freedom;
Government mandate 2004
Ensure that all children have decent classrooms;
further reduce the teacher/pupil ratio; improve spending in favour of children and
students from poor households; and expand the school nutrition programme.
Emerging issues
Emerging from the President’s State of the Nation Address are these issues: National School Nutrition Programmes Adequate funding for FET institutions, ensuring alignment
between their courses & the needs of the economy Recapitalisation of FET colleges Expand the reach of ABET programmes, aligning with EPWP
training Consolidate the merger of higher education institutions process All schools will have access to clean water Eliminate the phenomenon of learning under trees, existence of
mud-schools & other dangerous structures
Education responses
In meeting these challenges, the broad priorities of the education sector are: Dealing with Poverty Skills Development Improvement in the System Health and Education Institutional Capacity
Dealing with poverty
Develop a school uniform policyInvestigate the “basic” minimum package to
relieve the poorest 40% of learners from paying school fees
Investigate other options such as transport subsidies, boarding allowance etc
Ammend the Funding Norms: A national resource targeting table Compensate schools catering for the poorest
Food security – NSNP and Food gardens
Skills development
Improve ABET participation and relevance of programmes Partner with DoL, SETAs and NGOs
Improve funding & relevance of programmes in FET colleges
Deepen and widen Maths & Science StrategySchools of Focused LearningDoE/DoL leadership role in NQF implementationIncrease NSFAS – ring fence for scarce skills
Quality in education
Implement Integrated Quality Management System (DAS, WSE)
Finalise teacher development strategyRoll-out of ICTs for teaching and learningRoll-out of NCS at Grades 10 to 12Strengthen ACE, NPDEDelivery of infrastructure, elimination of dangerous
structures & learning under treesValues in education – social cohesionSports, arts and cultureQuality in higher education
Health and education
Locate our HIV/AIDS programmes within the broader health issues
Continue mitigating the spread of HIV/AIDS
Role of nutrition in prolonging lifeA focus on reproductive healthHealth of children – eyes and ears
Institutional capacity
Technical assistance to HE mergersSupport FET institutions implement their
strategic plansRecapitalisation of FET CollegesManagement & governance trainingDistrict development to support schoolsImprove capacity at provincial and
national offices
Other programmes
The Department has a number of other programmes that are in addition to the priorities outlined
The next slides deal provides an outline of these programmes
Also included is the budget of these programmes – Vote 15, that only includes national programmes
A
R’000Budget 2004/05: 11 344 957Voted 2003/04: 9 882 840Increase 1 462 117
+14,79 %
B
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Total grants to higher education institutions
9 865 504
8 913 752
951 752
11
Higher education institutionsHigher education restructuringNSFAS (awards
8 800 504
500 000565 000
8 212 144
168 608533 000
588 360331 39232 000
7197
6
C
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Transfer of payments to public entities
52 541 37 713 14 828 39
NSFAS (administration)Council on Higher EducationSAQAUmalusi
13 20010 88021 6466 815
12 00012 79311 2701 650
1 200-1 91310 3765 165
10-1592
313
D
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Transfer payments to: 17 029 23 266 -6 237 -27
Fullbright CommissionThe Guidance, Counselling and Youth Development Centre for Africa in MalawiUNESCO membership feeSETAJacob Zuma Trust Fund
1 654
10015 000
275
1 568
10016 388
2105000
86
0-1 388
65-5 000
6
0-931
0
E
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Conditional grants to provincial educationDepartments for:
960 779
442 888
517 891
117
Primary School Nutrition Programme (PSNP)HIV and AIDSEarly Childhood DevelopmentFinancial Management and Quality Enhancement in EducationPoverty relief, infrastructure and job summit: Thuba Makote Project Ikhwelo Project
6 0006 000 6 000
12 000
70 000
64 00050 000
6 000
-12 000
-70 000
-64 000-50 000
000
0
00
F
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Contributions: 1 000 1 000 0 0
Commonwealth of Learning 1 000 1 000 0 0
G
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Incr/(Decr)
Incr/(Decr)
Departmental Services 436 104
262 221
173 883
66
Personnel ExpenditureOperational costsImplementation of the revised national curriculum statement (GET)Curriculum writing and implementation
191 625184 479
20 00040 000
159 336102 885
32 28981 594
20 00040 000
2079
00
H
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Departmental service 436 104 262 221
Personnel expenditure 191 625 159 336
Operational costs 98 306 69 641
Programme 1Programme 2Programme 3Programme 4Programme 5Programme 6Programme 7
40 4064 7126 812
28 4758 4574 0155 429
28 2474 1898 880
17 2991 3463 883 5 797
I
2004/05R’000
2003/04R’000
Projects 86 173 33 244
Programme 1Programme 2Programme 3Programme 4Programme 5Programme 6Programme 7Implementation of the revised national curriculum statements (GET)Curriculum writing and implementation (FET)
6 20012 00036 15419 3229 9971 5001 000
20 00040 000
1 3903 782
14 35012 017
2810
1 42400
JProjects for 2004/05
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P1 Minister/Deputy Minister vehiclesSecurity SystemOffice buildingDev & publication of serv for electronic accessIntegration call centre with other call centres
1 670700
2 000380
1 450
6 200
K
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P2 Assistance to PED’s with funding of normsEMIS enhancement & system developmentEstablishment of budget officeNational Management Fund
2 0008 0001 271
729
12 000
L
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P3 Masifunde SonkeHistory ProjectSanliEMGDWomen in & into management & leadershipAlternatives to corporal punishmentRoles and responsibilities of parentsTeacher development C2005Teacher development Maths & ScienceNational Teacher AwardsUpgrading of underqualified & unqualified educatorsHIV and Aids for educators
1 200366
8 6001 8001 5001 2001 5017 9427 9952 900
1501 000
36 154
M
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P4 Integration of senior secondary schoolsHIV and Aids programmePhasing OBE into FET bandSingle examination systemHistorical recordsModernisation of packing and distributionSecurity SystemCuban tutorsMost improved schoolsDinalediICT unit
803686
4 848261
1 7472 373
5984 243
3142 804
645
19 322
N
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P5 Systemic evaluationWhole school evaluationSchool safetyPolicy on teenage pregnancySexual harassmentMonitoringNetworking on values in educationHeritage celebrationProfessional developmentLegislative framework & policy developmentNational: sports, arts & cultureNational Audit
1 5481 4201 600
72876086
135880520240
1 440640
9 997
O
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P6 HEMIS systemMergers
800700
1 500
P
Programme
ProjectProject TotalR’000
Programme TotalR’000
P7 School calendarPresident’s reportPASDUNESCO national commission
116129500255
1 000
Q
Increases R’m R’m
Subsidies to HE institutionsRestructuring of HEPrimary School Nutrition ProgrammeNSFASSAQACHEUmalusiHIV & AidsFETRNCSService Conditions on 1 July 2003Baseline
588,4331,4838,2
33,210,45,15,28,1
40,020,032,36,6 1 918,9
R
Decreases R’m R’m
UNESCOCHEFNQEECDIkhweloThuba Makote
(1,4)(7,0)
(234,4)(100,0)(50,0)(64,0)
1 462,1
Donor Funding in Cash 2004/05
PURPOSE Funds available
1/4/04
R’m
FRENCH 3.0
Training of educ executivesMaths and Science
0.62.4
JAPANESE 6.2
World Bank: Education Africa Reform Programme FET College Phase 1 FET College Phase 2 ECD, ABET, Schools
6.20.31.84.1
SWEDEN 21.8
Special Needs Education 21.8
FINLAND 12.6
Special Needs Education 12.6
BELGIUM (FLANDERS) 0.5
Whole school development 0.5
PURPOSE Funds available
1/4/04
R’m
NETHERLANDS 49.2
Sectoral Budget Support Programme Phase 2 Writing of unit standards for FET (plus OBE) FET inst dev for distance education Upgrading of unqualified and under-qualified educators Rewriting of Curriculum Statements District dev: Capacity of district level officials Evaluation of conditional grants Education portal and online LSM: FET Introduction of learnerships in FET institutions Safety in Schools Special Programmes RAIN project Unallocated
49.25.60.11.0
21.70.91.93.91.37.51.32.01.9
TOTAL 93.3
DONOR FUNDING IN KIND 2004/2005
PURPOSE Funds available
1/4/04
DflD R’m
Education Support Project Phase 2 Values, Human Right & Anti-racism Skills Development co-ordinator NQF Review Life Skills FET Reform of Technical Colleges EMIS FET HIV/AIDS Higher Education Emerging Initiatives Project Management
46.76.10.10.9
14.67.71.44.53.96.21.3