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2009/04/02

M Qwase on teachers' computer skills

The Eastern Cape Education MEC, Mahlubandile Qwase expressed his pleasure at seeing teachers acquiring computer skills at ETDP SETA (Education, Training and Development Programmes, Sector Education and Training Authority) graduation held at Leadership Institute of Education in East London on 27 March 2009. Luvo Gazi, Provincial Co-ordinator of ETDP SETA was very excited to see that ETDP SETA assisted about 227 teachers from different districts around the Eastern Cape with computer training ... [highlighted result]

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2009/03/11

M Qwase on Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) training

The Eastern Cape Department of Education's MEC, the honourable Mahlubandile Qwase, on Friday, 6 March 2009, handed over award certificates to about 23 teachers and subject advisors from all the provincial districts. The awarding follows a comprehensive training conducted in Computer Aided Drawing (CAD) so that they can offer Engineering Graphics and Design (EGD) in each and every district. Through this training, the provincial education sector seeks to provide the opportunity and ... [highlighted result]

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2009/03/10

M Qwase on condolences to family of late Vusi Grootboom

On behalf of the Eastern Cape Department of Education, MEC Mahlubandile Qwase wishes to send words of sympathy and condolences to the family of the late Vusi Grootboom. Eventually, once the regional offices were done away with, Vusi continued working in the same section in the now Port Elizabeth District Office, always seeing to the implementation of a 'Zero Defect Exam'. Not only was Vusi an organised person but he a very humble, calm and collected person who was committed in his line of... [highlighted result]

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2009/03/02

M Qwase on draft implementation protocol for administrative support

The meeting was attended by the Premier, the Minister, MEC, the Eastern Cape Provincial Director-General, Director-General of the Department of Education and Acting Superintendent General of Education in the Eastern Cape. At this meeting an agreement was reached on the draft implementation protocol on the provision of administrative support to the Eastern Cape Department of Education with the national Department of Education. Today the MEC welcomed two officials from the National Department ... [highlighted result]

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2009/02/19

M Qwase: State of Province Address Input

Firstly, we have identified education as our priority to improve quality of teaching and learning, ensuring school functionality, recruitment and development of educators, improvement of assessment tools and training of Early Child Development (ECD) Practitioners to improve quality of primary education, and intensifying poverty combating initiatives like school nutrition programme, scholar transport, school uniforms and no fee school policy, and development of infrastructure and provisioning ... [highlighted result]

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2009/01/07

M Qwase on launch of departmental website

On 30 December 2008, Eastern Cape Department of Education MEC Mahlubandile Qwase launched the official website of the department during the announcement of matric results at Christian Centre in East London. Addressing the audience, MEC Qwase said the launching of the website was delivering to the Batho Pele Principles of Information Access and the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA). The revamped of Eastern Cape Department of Education website includes interactive features, giving ... [highlighted result]

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2008/10/02

M Qwase: Choral Eisteddfod Indaba

The South African Schools Choral Eisteddfod (SASCE) is one of the school enrichment programmes coordinated by the Department of Education to promote national reconciliation, proper values and attitudes, a new South African national identity, social transformation and cohesion among school-going South African youth. For example the Efata School for the Blind in Mthatha, Hombe Junior Secondary School in Lusikisiki right up to your Victoria Girls High School in Grahamstown. Perhaps, the time has... [highlighted result]

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2008/12/30

M Qwase: Release of 2008 matric results

Last year we bade farewell to the old curriculum, the National Association for Tertiary Education for Deaf (NATED) 550 curriculum, which had been a feature of our education system, in various forms, since 1948. We have taken meaningful steps to improve the results of all learners throughout the system, from Grade R to Grade 12 including Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET) and Further Education and Training (FET) Colleges, with a comprehensive learner attainment improvement strategy, ... [highlighted result]

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2008/12/30

M Qwase: Launch of Eastern Cape Education upgraded website

As a responsible government we have major responsibility to communicate to the electorate what the government is doing for the people. We are therefore delivering to the Batho Pele principle of information access and the Promotion of Access to Information Act which are clear democratic evidences that we want to empower our people with information so that they can access government services at their will. It is designed to meet a growing demand by our people to access electronic government ... [highlighted result]

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2010/08/13

M Qwase on Education Development Trust (EDT)

The Eastern Cape Department of Education (ECDoE) held recently a workshop aimed at resuscitating the Educational Development Trust (EDT) for the department with various stakeholders at the Education Leadership Institute in East London.

The MEC for Education, Mahlubandile Qwase shared his vision and the strategic imperatives of the department and identified the areas in support of education development. He is of the view that a fully functional EDT responsible for the coordination of... [highlighted result]

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2010/08/11

M Qwase to open provincial maritime summit, 12 Aug

In pursuit of parity with sister coastal provinces, the Eastern Cape Department of Education MEC, the honourable Mahlubandile Qwase will tomorrow 12 August 2010 open a two day provincial Maritime Summit at the Port Alfred Halyards Hotel at 10:00 am.

The fundamental agenda and intention of the summit will be to consider the inability of introducing maritime studies in the province. This summit comes amidst the investigations by the department to open a maritime high school in the ... [highlighted result]

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2010/03/24

M Qwase: Eastern Cape Education Prov Budget Vote 2010/11

The majority of our learners who mostly populate our rural and township schools are also worthy of our consideration, and should therefore be at the forefront of our reconfigured agenda for this cycle of delivery.The national government has, quite rightly, decided that quality basic education will be the number one priority out of 12 strategic priorities for the period up to 2014/15, and under the theme: Working Together to Improve the Culture of Teaching and Learning . President Jacob... [highlighted result]

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2009/06/18

M Qwase: Eastern Cape Education Budget and Policy 2009/10

As Honourable Premier indicated, our provincial priorities are fully aligned to the national framework and include an endeavour to strengthening education, and building a skills and human resource base . The January 2009 snap survey confirmed that just over 2 million children in this Province are enrolled as learners in more than 5,900 schools.

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2010/03/10

M Qwase to deliver Eastern Cape Education Prov Budget Speech 2010/11, 23 Mar

On 23 March 2010 at 14h00, Eastern Cape Education MEC, Mahlubandile Qwase, will deliver his departmental policy speech in the chamber of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature in Bhisho.The policy speech will be uploaded progressively on the Eastern Cape Department of Education website as the speech is being delivered.Issued by: Department of Education, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
10 March 2010
Source: Department of Education, Eastern Cape Provincial ... [highlighted result]

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2010/06/07

M Qwase to hold media briefing, 7 Jun

The Eastern Cape Department of Education wishes to extend an invitation to a media briefing session to be hosted by MEC Mahlubandile Qwase and acting Superintendent-General Harry Nengwekhulu.The briefing session will, amongst others, offer an update on the following areas:* comprehensive fraud and corruption investigations instituted by the department last September 2009 through the Special Investigations unit
* the work done to date to strengthen the teaching and ... [highlighted result]

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2010/05/10

M Qwase to address Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders, 12 to 13 May

All members of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders (ECHOTL) will assemble in the second sitting of the third term of the House to address issues of importance. On this sitting the Honourable MEC, Mr M Qwase will take a centre stage when responding to education related challenges raised by Members of the House during the Premiers speech debate sitting held on 12 and 13 April 2010.The sitting will also allow the MEC to highlight key priorities mentioned on a turnaround ... [highlighted result]

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2010/02/15

M Qwase to launch safe schools programme, 15 Feb

The national Department of Education s Deputy Director-General, Ms Gugu Ndebele and the Eastern Cape Education MEC Mahlubandile Qwase will be launching the Safe Schools programme on 15 February at the Lingelethu High School, near East London at 11h30.This launch is an attempt to uproot violence in this school as it was identified to have huge number of learners affected by violence, teenage pregnancy, behavioural disorders and drug abuse. The school will also receive attention from ... [highlighted result]

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2010/04/22

M Qwase on state of education in Eastern Cape

Addressing the provincial House of Traditional Leaders last week Monday, the Eastern Cape Education Department MEC Mahlubandile Qwase lobbied for support in advancing the improvement of the state of education in the province.Laying it all bare, Qwase recapped the challenges facing the education sector with particular focus on rural and township schools as compared to suburban and former Model-C schools that are better off. The majority of the suburban schools and former ... [highlighted result]

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2010/06/07

M Qwase on officials? fraud and corruption investigation

In September 2009, the department took an important decision to invite the Special Investigations Unit to undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged cases of fraud and corruption throughout all tiers of the organisation, from schools to head office. All officials involved with sensitive departmental information will undergo security assessment and individual vetting.In the short term, the department will be appointing a senior manager responsible for overall security.<... [highlighted result]

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2010/03/25

M Qwase to address African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) session, 26 Mar

The Eastern Cape provincial government, civil society, labour unions, business and other stakeholders will converge at the Education Leadership Institute in East London tomorrow, 26 March 2010 to talk about achievements and bottlenecks on service delivery.MEC for Education Mr Mahlubandile Qwase as Political Champion of the African Peer Review Mechanism in the province will address the session.In March 2003, South Africa acceded to the APRM, thereby subjecting the country to a... [highlighted result]

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