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BASIC Education Minister Angie Motshekga has congratulated provinces on their improved academic performance during 2022 in the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination during her first meeting with district directors and senior DBE and Provincial Education Department (PED) officials earlier this month.
The Minister expressed gratitude to all district directors for their resilience during this challenging period as the first line of defence.
“Along with our circuit managers, you remain the heartbeat of the sector. We must now shift our focus towards quality. To this end, I am pleased to announce that the National Assessments and Public Examinations analysis is moving away from league tables towards the inclusive basket. As we celebrate the anniversary of the function migration, there is a lot to do with ECD, our new baby in the house. We have embarked on many projects to ensure better and more effective resourcing of early childhood education,” she said.
These include the ECD Census, which is helping the Department establish more robust planning systems, and the Thrive by Five Index, which is assisting the Department in strategically targeting its support.
“We are also driving the process of redrafting the Children’s Second Amendment Bill to make registration and access to funding more easily accessible to all ECD programmes. Guided by our anticipated Integrated ECD Service Delivery Model and Framework, based on the Five Pillars of Early Learning to bring all stakeholders on board, we need to prioritise access and quality,” the Minister said.
“We must continue with the Learning Recovery Plan and pay attention to Home Languages, emphasising languages in the Foundation Phase. The National School Nutrition Programme, which has successfully offered meals and created jobs for the local communities, should be expanded to fight malnutrition and stunting.”
“I am confident that this will be another great year for education, and I wish you all the best in
today’s deliberations and the year ahead,” the Minister concluded.
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