Department of Basic Education : Annual Performance Plan 2023/24
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2023-03-10
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Department of Basic Education, Pretoria, South Africa
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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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Annual reports, South Africa, Basic education sector, National State of Disaster, COVID-19