This serves as a call for comments on the Action plan for 2014. The plan is a draft document of the Department of Basic Education intended to elicit public input.

The interim policy is in recognition of the critical importance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) as a fundamental pillar of the foundation for lifelong learning. The government aims to incorporate ECD into the components of the policy framework for education and training in South Africa. It seeks to leverage programmes and strategies to help families and communities meet the needs of children from birth to at least nine years of age. The policy will “holistically cover the development of the young child and ensure an environment characterised by safety, protection, anti-bias and cultural fairness, to ensure that attitudinal and psychological healing, reconciliation and the start of nation-building can take place at a young age”.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 document provides a general framework for higher education in Tanzania.

This programme was designed by the government to transform the education sector into an efficient, effective, and outcome-based sector.

This Plan focuses on ensuring equitable access to education and training for all, including the most disadvantaged. Progress towards achieving all of the targets will be tracked through a rigorous Monitoring and Evaluation Framework, which is a separate document annexed to this plan, and this will disaggregate results by gender and by geographical location, as well as having a particular focus on disadvantaged groups such as orphans and vulnerable children, and children and adults with learning disabilities including physical disabilities.

An Act to make provisions for the establishment, composition and functions of the Commission for universities, the coordination and rationalization of the types and categories of universities, the promotion and financing of higher education, establishment and governance of universities, and for other related matters.

The overall objective is to ensure partnership with the civil society so that out-of-school children, youth and adults, especially girls, women, disadvantaged groups and nomads would have access to quality basic learning opportunities. The target is to improve the literacy rate by 20 per cent and reduce the backlog of out-of-school children by mainstreaming at least the 11-13 years old of the targeted groups.

This Plan focuses on the following critical issues: advocacy and sensitization, access and equity, quality enhancement, capacity enhancement and development, monitoring and evaluation, administration and coordination, financing and sustainability of the adult, non-formal and continuing education.