Education

To bring their work into context, this study focuses on five important areas of national debate: Infrastructure, Access and Government Provision, Teacher Quality, Early Childhood Development, Higher Education and Skills Development.

The following projects are featured:

1.    Upgrading of Early Childhood Development Centres (Western Cape) - represents a highly successful public private partnership where government provided funding and resources, and NGOs provided service delivery with impact to upgrade early childhood development centres.  

2.    Ntataise (Free State) - created a Network Support Programme of early childhood development training organisations, spanning seven of South Africa’s nine provinces, and reaching more than 2,200 pre-schools and over 3,300 practitioners in 2010.  

3.    Run Home to Read (Limpopo) - a mother-tongue family literacy programme run by Project Literacy, it gives parents and caregivers the training and tools to develop their children’s early literacy skills at home.  

4.    Hantam Community Education Trust (Northern Cape) - is a multi-purpose health and education centre located on eleven acres of de-proclaimed farmland forty-four km from Colesberg.  

5.    Schools Environmental Education Development (National) - partners with thirty-four schools, helping them to create productive Permaculture gardens at their schools whilst training teachers to incorporate these resources into the cirriculum.  

6.    Khanya Project (Western Cape) – works in rural and urban schools providing individualised technology access such as computer laboratories, interactive whiteboards and software programmes.  

7.    Protecting Futures Programme (Eastern Cape) - a programme piloted in three district municipalities to prevent avoidable absenteeism and dropouts amongst girls in schools.  

8.    Informal Education Programme (Western Cape) - run by MaAfrika Tikkun in twenty-two schools spread across many areas of Cape Town including Crossroads, Gardens, Langa, Nyanga, Guguletu, Delft, Khayelitsha and Cape Town city.

 
9.    Rhodes University Mathematics Education Programme (Eastern Cape) - addresses the competency and confidence of maths teachers through four interlinking programmes that target disadvantaged areas.

 
10.    Go for Gold (Western Cape) - designed to increase the number of qualified candidates with the necessary grounding in Mathematics and Science for entry into the construction, building sciences and engineering fields.  

11.    SciMathUS (Western Cape) - is a post-matric bridging programme for disadvantaged students whose Mathematics and Science scores are just below the standard entrance scores for admittance to university.  

12.    Rural Education Access Programme (National) - enables rural and disadvantaged youth to access and succeed at Higher Education.