ECDoE’s budget increases by 16.6% (05 March 2010); Eastern Cape Department of Education

ECDoE’s budget increases by 16.6%

Posted on Friday, 05 March 2010
Article by Media Liaison and Public Relations

The Eastern Cape Education department has once again received a large chunk of the total budget of the province.

Tabling his R48,2 billion budget, Finance MEC Mcebisi Jonas allocated the Education Department R22, 680 billion.

"We intend to enhance the quality of education and skills development, focusing on improving foundation phase literacy and numeracy, and on increasing the number of learners passing grade 12 mathematics and science," Jonas said. "We will build the skills and human resource base of the Province. To do this teacher training must be improved, in support of which the budget for professional development of educators is increased," MEC added.

The Scholar Transport Programme will be intensified, the School Nutrition Programme maintained, no-fee schooling extended facilities and infrastructure improved, and learner and teacher support materials enhanced. We undertake to improve school safety and security and expand our early childhood development programme.

"Through our Provincial Strategic Skills Programme we are building partnerships for skills development across all targeted growth sectors. It should be noted that the budget for FET colleges has been shifted from provinces to the national department."

"Our main challenge in implementing these key priorities is not so much budgetary constraint, but the sheer scale of our educational establishment. The 12 Provincial Department of Education employs about 87,000 people, a mammoth undertaking," Jonas said.

Please download the full version of the budget speech on: http://www.ectreasury.gov.za/publish/BudgetSpeech2010.pdf

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Posted by SIYA - 12:21 on 12 March 2010

I'M JUST WANT TO SAY AS LONG AS TOP MANAGEMENT CLAIM S&T TRANSPORT COST THERE WILL BE NO CHANGE TO THIS INCREMENT OF 16% SO LET THE GOVERNMENT BE EQUALLY.

Posted by uhuru - 10:32 on 08 March 2010

The decision by the Provincial Treasury to increase its budget allocation to ECDoE by 16% for the 2010/11 financial year, is highly welcomed and must be acknowledged. This comes at a time when the ECDoE's top management has just made its announcement that it aims at tightening its belt. Whilst belt tightening will continue as planned, a 16% budgetary increment will go a long way in ensuring that ECDoE's service delivery targets are met effectively and efficiently. However the fact that about 60% of this budget is spent on personnel should remain a cause for concern.