Annual Performance Plan 2013/14 - Department of Education

3. Programme 3: Independent School Subsidies
Purpose:
To support independent schools in accordance with the South African Schools Act
Analysis per programme:
The main focus of the programme is to ensure timeous and orderly registration of independent schools in terms of SASA and other
legislative frameworks. This includes management of extension of curriculum for registered schools applying to expand. This
requires continuous evaluation and monitoring of the programme to ensure sustainable compliance with the applicable prescripts
including National Norms and Standards of School Funding (NNSF) and South African Schools Act (SASA), Curriculum
requirements, administrative systems and improvement of Auditor General’s findings.
Since the inception of this programme, no financial provision was ever considered for its management and administration, despite
the emphasis on ensuring compliance. It only caters for transfer payments to independent schools which were never fully funded as
budget available has always been below 50%. Funding for independent school is meant to support tuition and the quality of
education in the circumstances is compromised. It is therefore important that whatever funding is made available for future, that
provision for administration budget to support the programme be made. This will be done through top-slicing a small portion of the
overall programme budget in a manner that is not going to make schools worst off than the previous financial years otherwise quality
of education in this sector is seriously compromised.
Key priorities:
The following are the key priorities of the programme:
• Strengthen monitoring of Independent Schools to ensure compliance
• Investigating state of Independent Schools in the Province
Sub-programmes:
Sub-Programme
Sub-Programme purpose
3.1: Primary Phase To support independent schools in Grades 1 to 7
3.2: Secondary Phase To support independent schools in Grades 8 to 12
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