Assessment of Needs and Capacity of District Office Professional Staff

JOB TITLE OR
POSITION
Table 2: Job Title or position by Gender
GENDER
MALE FEMALE
No % No %
23
TOTAL
CES 15 63% 9 38% 24
Subject Advisor 112 36% 200 64% 312
Lecturer 11 41% 16 59% 27
EDO 89 63% 52 37% 141
TOTAL 227 45% 277 55% 504
Table 3: Job Title or Position by Race
JOB TITLE AFRICAN WHITE INDIAN COLOURED TOTAL
CES 21 3 24
Subject Advisor 261 27 10 16 314
Lecturer 18 6 2 1 27
EDO 130 5 4 139
TOTAL 430 41 12 21 504
Table 3 shows that there is a pre-dominance of Africans in professional posts in District
Offices. Here, there is more racial representativity among Subject Advisors than among
any other grouping.
Age Profile
Information on age is critical to the educational establishment in the Province since, in
terms of succession planning, the Department must ensure that District Offices are
always fully capacitated with staff who are well qualified and experienced, and who are
able to stay in office long enough to ensure stability and improvement in education. The
Department must also seek to ensure that District Offices have the correct balance of
youthful enthusiasm and initiatives and maturity, experience and wisdom. To this extent
data on age profile gives reason for concern.
Table 4 presents age categories of respondents by the job titles or positions of
professional staff in District Offices. Overall, the data shows that the complement of
professional staff in District Offices is aging without the necessary replacements being
groomed at the District Office. Over 75% of all professional staff in District Offices is
above 46 years of age. Of this amount 61% is over 50 and 24% is over 55%. Almost
20% of all professional staff in Districts is over 55 years of age. Subject Advisors are
generally younger with about 42% of Subject Advisors over 50 years of age, while 55% of