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    Department of Basic Education : Annual Performance Plan 2023/24
    (Department of Basic Education, Pretoria, South Africa, 2023-03-10)
    The mandate of the Basic Education Sector is to provide an environment where everyone will have access to education that leads to lifelong learning and learning opportunities that cultivate skills and knowledge for the changing world. Access to these opportunities is thus an institutional imperative that must be actualised to enable all citizens to improve the quality of their lives and to be able to contribute meaningfully to the welfare of their communities and society in general. The Department’s 2023/24 Annual Performance Plan is the first plan developed in a context where the National State of Disaster due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has been lifted. This confronts the Department to work on reversing the devastating impact that COVID-19 had on instruction and learning. Through this, the Department will continue to ensure that efforts are aimed at achieving the objectives in Chapter 9 of the National Development Plan (NDP), which is improving education, training and innovation. This will be enabled by improving human capacity, school management, district support, infrastructure and results-oriented mutual accountability between schools and communities. This plan provides the final year of a five- year 2019-2024 Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF), and commitments are still resolute on achieving Priority 3, that is, Education, Skills and Health through the following outcomes: Outcome 1: Improved school readiness of children; Outcome 2: 10-year-old learners enrolled in publicly funded schools read for meaning; Outcome 3: Youths better prepared for further studies and the world of work beyond Grade 9; Outcome 4: Youths leaving the schooling system more prepared to contribute towards a prosperous and equitable South Africa; and Outcome 5: School physical infrastructure and environment that inspires learners to learn and teachers to teach.
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    Department of Basic Education : Annual Performance Plan 2024/25
    (Department of Basic Education, Pretoria, South Africa, 2024-03-18)
    The 2024/25 Annual Performance Plan (APP) of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) concludes the planned outcomes of the 2020-2025 Strategic Planning period. South Africa, like many other countries of the world, was severely affected by the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Poverty, inequality and unemployment soared and the negative impact on the schooling sector was almost immeasurable. The closure of schools and the introduction of a rotational system of learning for the majority of the learners meant that there was a loss of formal curriculum teaching and learning. Learners, particularly in lower grades, could not learn optimally at home since parents were confronted with the challenge of home-confined teaching and learning. Teachers faced the challenge of ensuring continuity of teaching in very perplexing circumstances. Although measures were introduced through digital and remote learning interventions, these were not adequate to mitigate learning losses in many instances, particularly amongst poor households. This exacerbated the already existing schooling challenges and reversed some of the gains we had made around the foundational learning competencies of our learners. Global Organisations such as the World Bank, United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) observed a deep pre-COVID learning crisis. In 2019, learning poverty was estimated at 57% in low-and middle-income countries. Post-COVID, there is a surge of up to 70% in learning poverty in low-and middle-income countries, as high as 86% for Sub-Saharan Africa. Learning poverty equals the share of children who cannot read a simple text by age 10. This APP aims to conclude its commitments made in the current Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF), and commitments are still resolute on achieving Priority 3, that is, Education, Skills and Health through the following outcomes: a) b) c) d) e) Outcome 1: Improved school readiness of children; Outcome 2: 10-year-old learners enrolled in publicly funded schools read for meaning; Outcome 3: Youths better prepared for further studies and the world of work beyond Grade 9; Outcome 4: Youths leaving the schooling system more prepared to contribute towards a prosperous and equitable South Africa; and Outcome 5: School physical infrastructure and environment that inspires learners to learn and teachers to teach.
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    Department of Higher Education and Training Annual Report 2022/2023
    (Department of Higher Education and Training, Pretoria, South Africa, 2023)
    FOREWORD BY THE MINISTER : I am pleased to present the Annual Report of the Department of Higher Education and Training for the reporting period 2022/23. This edition represents the eleventh iteration since the establishment of our Department. This report reflects our achievements and relevant financial information of our Department’s continued efforts to develop and improve the South African Post-School Education and Training (PSET) system. This reporting period has undoubtedly been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but operations and functions of the Department have once again normalised since the relaxation and gradual phasing out of COVID-19 related regulations during March 2022. In response to significant budget cuts effected across all Government departments, our Department has since been compelled to re-assess and recalibrate its portfolio at all levels, across all programmes and within our institutions ...