Annual Performance Plan 2013/14 - Department of Education

6. Programme 6: Adult Education and Training
Purpose: To provide Adult Education and Training (ABET) in accordance with the Adult Basic Education and Training Act, 52 0f
2000, inclusive of provisions of the AET Amendment Act, 2010.
Analysis per programme:
Programme 6 is part of the government strategy to reduce by fifty per cent or half illiteracy in the Province by 2014 as mandated by
the Provincial Growth and Development Plan, the Integrated Rural Development Strategy and the ABET Act, No. 23 of 2000.
Besides skills and poverty alleviation programmes, AET centers have classes from level1 -4 which is the equivalent of grade 9.
ABET learners who have completed Level 1- 4 may proceed to public FET colleges located throughout the Province. Expenditure
for by the programme has grown steadily in the previous years; 2009/10 (213 427), 2010/11 (299 269), 2011/12 (307 625) and
2012/13(324 784)
The budget for the current financial year is part of the equitable share and is governed in terms of the provincial treasury regulations.
The first quarter has registered an under expenditure of R6m on compensation of employees which is caused by the delay in the
employment of ABET educators. There are discussions underway at the Department of Higher Education and Training to phase the
equitable share into conditional grant for the financial year 2013/14 as it is envisaged that this function will be taken over by that
department of Higher Education and Training.
As the Sector is poised for greater student numbers, more funds are needed to accommodate these new learners. The AET centers
in most cases do not have their own classrooms, hostels, workshops and well trained educators. Unoccupied schools should be
opened for utilization by these centers which will be known as community colleges with permanent educators.
Key priorities:
The priorities of the programme for the year 2013/14 are:
• Ensuring that adults without basic education access learning opportunities.
• Establishing more ABET Centres in under-utilized schools, implement Norms and Standards for Funding of Adult Learning
Centres, and
• Improving the quality of ABET programmes so that they articulate with FET College programmes.
Sub-Programmes:
6.1: Public Centres
Sub-Programme
Sub-Programme purpose
To support specific public ABET sites with resources
6.2: Subsidies to private centres To support specific private ABET sites through subsidies.
6.3: Professional Services.
6.4: Human Resource Development
6.5 Conditional Grants
To provide educators and students in public ABET sites with departmentally
managed support services.
To provide departmental services for the professional and other development of
educators and non-educators in public ABET sites.
To provide funding for the entire Adult Education and Training programme, to ensure
successful transfer of the Further Education and Training function to the Department
of Higher Education and Training
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