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Premier hails Gauteng teachers Matthews Riba, Gauteng Online, 18 August 2014 Principals from schools across Gauteng gathered at Birchwood hotel to meet Gauteng Premier, David Makhura on Friday. Coming from both primary and secondary schools, they flocked in numbers to meet Gauteng's number one citizen. Gauteng MEC for Education, Phanyaza Lesufi also attended the principals' meeting, and addressed some of the management ills that the principals often encounter in the running of schools. Principals were also given an opportunity to voice challenges they often face in schools. Many principals complained of limited resources. Citing a lack of modern resources like computers prevented them from delivering top quality education. Makhura's presence at the gathering assured principals that their grievances would be swiftly dealt with, and warned those whose schools are out of order to start pulling up their socks. "You must work on the basis that we are coming to visit your school," Makhura said. Makhura intends paying unannounced visits to schools that are not doing well with the aim of addressing the problems which affect such schools, with that, he will also visit those that are doing well, in order to determine the difference, in the course of aiding the poor-performing ones. This is based on one of the Pillars of Makhura's 10-pillar programme, he has introduced during the inception of his administration. He aims to transform the quality of education in Gauteng. "We need to set ourselves high standards, and compete with the rest of the world, and make team education a winning team," Makhura said. Although some schools in Gauteng appear to be poorly-managed and plagued by social problems, Makhura hailed the principals of Gauteng for their hard work and critical role they are playing to shape the society, and changing lives. "The value of education cannot be measured by anything," Makhura said. The Premier also added that the Gauteng education system can be improved when principals take a strong stance against ill-discipline and remaining firm in the running of their schools. He further added that as principals play a major role in the running of the schools, they need to assign those with the right attitude, the right skills, and appropriate resources and work in environments which will bring the best out them. From: http://www.gautengonline.gov.za/News/Pages/Premier-hails-Gauteng-teachers.as px -- -- 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] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
