God shall provide
-----Original Message-----
From: sabelo gina <[email protected]>
Sent: 12 May 2009 18:29
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [YCLSA Discussion] Re: Congratulations to Minister Motshekga and
Minister Ndzimande to lead Basic and Higher Education and Training
Comrade Norman,
Nice piece indeed, should we not start a debate on the role of government
employees in the new administration since a progresive call was made by
President Jacob Zuma that our comrades must change their mindset towards
doing their work.
My view is that our comrades in the public service, on many occassions, let
us down by not understanding their roles of servicing our members.
Comradely,
Cedric Gina.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Norman Mampane <[email protected]> wrote:
> Fellow Members
>
> It is with great pleasure to embrace the announcement as ushered by JZ
> Adminstration.As part of the ANC Election Manifesto five
> priorities,Education has being elevated to become a societal instrument to
> revolutionarise and maximise education and skills development delivery.It is
> incumbent for All of us to rally around our ministers to deliver the
> expectations of 22nd amazon turn-out at all voting stations.
>
> Our point is that on Basic Education Ministry,emphasise should be towards
> entrenchement and consolidation of Mother Tongue Instruction in levels of
> pre and primary education as it has been proved that we have registered
> limitations in that arena.Educator Support and Development should be
> maximised as we have not done well it that area given the harsh-harsh
> introduction of Outcome-Based Education(OBE) and ensure that intensive
> in-service training centres are revived to accelerate delivery on
> same.Infractural revolution is needed in areas formerly disadvanataged to
> jerk uniformity of education provision in the country.We wecome what we have
> seen in some provinces such as Limpopo with the opening of classy schools in
> rural areas,that should continue.Class Size will also be addressed in the
> fact that number of learners contribute towards quality basic education.
> The Ministry must deal with Promotion Policies at lower levels as a result
> of compulsory promotion at Grade R-3 has posed problems.How can we promote
> learners who are not competent to higher grades??This breeds failure rate in
> higher grades and that should be avoided.And No-Fee Schools indeed should be
> increased as expected projections suggest to 60% to aliviate poverty as key
> barrier towards basic education.It does not need a rocket scientist to prove
> that and destroy in the true sense School Drop-outs and child illiteracy in
> the current conjuncture.
> Togetherness of All Stakeholders will deliver on All the
> expectations.School Governing Bodies(SGB's),Educator Unions,Education
> Officials,Universities supporting Basic Education,Colleges of
> Education,Management of Schools must come to the party to share best
> practices to deliver.
> Learners and Students coming out of our schools,FET's must be relevant to
> the current skills expected for our country.
>
> The Ministry of Higher Education and Training must march forward to deal
> with the hard issue of exclusivity towards higher education in the
> country.The amount payable to most universities are not reachable to All
> learners/students alike.Only kids from affluent communities are privy to the
> cake.Student Barsaries must be augmented to cover all students across
> provinces to access higher education.University Councils must come into the
> picture and play a prograssive role than what we have seen before the
> elections at TUT etc.
> Racism is a Trade Union issue and the kind of uncultural,uncivilised
> behaviours of other institutions applying discriminatory tendencies towards
> admission should be stopped,disallowed and out-lawed.
>
> Our Academics,Intellectuals must not the fence sitters,critisizing but not
> reagarding themselves as part of the solutions.We need to consolidate a view
> that Young Workers,"Your Unions are waiting for You" and make them shape and
> consolidate working class power at staff-room level/workplace level and that
> will enhance our delivery of public services to all citizens.We can't have a
> disjointed analysis of our limitations if we are waek to organise ourselves.
> Workplace Learning should become the centre of worker education and skills
> provisioning at all workplaces;schools,FET's,Colleges,Universities,Police
> stations,Courts,Prisons,Factories etc.We must provide workers opportunities
> to learn and advance through their career paths to avoid courses where a
> cleaner is made to become a better cleaner than making him/her a supervisor
> of a plant,instution etc.
> Acceptance of Workers to sudy at All Institutions of Higher Learning should
> be encouraged to enhance service delivery.Learning about new and different
> ways of doing things at workplaces.
>
> Mentoring and Coaching should be enhanced to accelerate best practises of
> public service delivery.The SETA's must deliver more numbers on skill
> development and provide opportunities for unemployed learners to be placed
> for employment.All social ills will be eradicated through that as no one
> will idle without any activity.
> STATS SA should be used towards our favour and avoid analysis that suggest
> that a person selling sweets at a corner is deemed to be employed and
> provide decent jobs for all.
> Given the background of our ministers in the understanding of what the
> poorest of this country need,we have a firm believe that we won't fail to
> deliver.
> Unions at institutions of higher learning must take an advantage and
> organise more than before as we have seen limitations around Institutions
> Councils running the show,firing and hiring.That should be dealt with.
>
> Engagement and consultation of All Stakeholders have being a glue that have
> delivered good governance in South Africa,a case in point is the delivery of
> the election machinery through institutions such as IEC.
>
> Bravo for All Ministers!!!!
>
> It is not yet Uhuru
>
> Mampane Norman
> National Educator
> POPCRU
> (He writes in his personal capacity)
>
>
> >
>
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You are subscribed. This footer can help you.
Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this
message.
You can visit the group WEB SITE at
http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options,
pages, files and membership.
To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You
don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put
anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this
address (repeat): [email protected] .
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
