The equitable policy sets out to address the persisting inequality challenges and inadequacies in allocation and access to basic school infrastructure services; laboratories, computers, and classrooms. The policy seeks to fill the gap of the lack of specific national and provincial policies. It serves as a framework to guide the development of physical teaching and learning environment.

The national reading strategy has the vision to ensure every South African learner becomes a fluent reader who reads to learn and reads for enjoyment and enrichment. It underpins South Africa’s participation in United Nations development campaigns, including; the UNESCO Literacy Decade 2003-2013, and the Education for All (EFA) campaign, which aims to increase literacy rates by 50% by the year 2015.

The government is using the period covered by the strategic and operational plans to collaborate with provincial governments, NGOs, and social and private partners, to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation of education, so as to ensure that all elements of the system are subjected to rigorous scrutiny. The goals and objectives contained are anchored on the overarching goal of the department: to ensure quality education for all.

The guidelines are premised on the sixth white paper on Special Needs Education Building an Inclusive Education and Training System. They serve as steps towards making all ordinary schools, full-service/inclusive schools. The guidelines contain criteria for schools, districts, and provinces, to measure progress towards inclusion; incentives are also offered, as a form of rewarding excellence.

The purpose of this policy is to promote punctual and regular attendance at public schools and provide public schools and provincial education departments (PEDs) with standard procedures for recording, managing and monitoring learner attendance.

This document provides an amendment of the curriculum and policy and policy statement of the national curriculum statement to provide for minimum outcomes and standards and a national process and procedure for the assessment of learner achievement. It also provides an amendment to the national policy pertaining to the programme and promotion requirements for grade R-12.

This plan includes valuable strategic pointers for ensuring that government’s substantial, yet limited, resources are used effectively to accomplish South Africa’s education mission. The emphasis in this Plan of Action is on ensuring that the poorest 40% of learners in South Africa continue to experience improvements in the quality of the schooling they receive and that all barriers to access, such as distance, school fees, or some other barrier, are removed by 2006.

The policy stipulated in this document applies to public ordinary and special schools and those independent schools that offer the National Curriculum Statement Grades R – 12, which comprise; Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements for all approved subjects listed in this document; National policy pertaining to the programme and promotion requirements of the National Curriculum Statement Grades R – 12; and National Protocol for Assessment Grades R – 12.

These regulations apply to all schools. The main objective is to provide minimum uniform norms and standards for public school infrastructure.

This is an Act for the establishment of the Education Fund, specifying the Powers and Functions of the Fund, management, financial provisions, and other general provisions.

The main policy objective of Vision 2020 is to ensure access to quality education, especially for poor household members, women and people with disabilities, by improving and maintaining high education standards and skills development cost-effectively.

This document is for the preparation of the Zanzibar Education Development Programme (ZEDP), elucidating the fieldwork questions and institutions visited and the type of expenditure in all government schools by districts – 2005 (EMIS).

This four-year plan details all policy objectives and strategies for all levels of education in Tanzania.

The Zanzibar Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty aims to contribute to poverty reduction in Tanzania by continuing from ZSGRP I.

This development plan presents the policy directions and long term objectives for all levels of education in Tanzania.

This policy aims to expand access and equity, improve the quality and effectiveness of the education system, develop scientific and technological competence, expand tertiary education, promote good governance of education, and provide a safe and healthy environment for teaching and learning.

This document provides a general framework for higher education in Tanzania.

The Medium-Term Strategic Plan for 2012/13 – 2015/16 provides a framework upon which all education and training institutions under it will develop and design their Medium-Term Strategic Plans (MTSPs). This Medium-Term Strategic Plan is aimed at improving the provision of education and training and other services at all levels through the improvement of quality of education and training by expanding institutional frameworks and structures.

This report is organised into seven chapters. The first chapter presents a historical review of the teaching of civics in schools and civic education. The second chapter discusses the methodology used in the preparation of this report and provides a conceptual framework for the National Strategy. The third chapter discusses the attributes of a recommended CE management body. The fourth chapter discusses alternative sources of resources for CE provision. Chapter five presents a discussion of the objectives and contents of CE curricula for different groups, and chapter six presents different CE teaching methods and teaching aids for different social groups. The report ends by presenting a timeline for the implementation of the strategy.

The major objectives of this policy are to achieve increased enrolments, equitable access, quality improvements, the expansion and optimum utilisation of facilities, and operational efficiency throughout the system.