By Staff Reporter
The Portfolio Committee on Basic Education will conduct oversight visits to schools in Gauteng and the North West this week.
The primary focus of the visits was to assess the state of readiness of schools in these provinces for the 2025 academic year, said committee chairperson Joy Maimela.
She said the focus areas were learner admissions and teacher-to-learner ratios, Early Childhood Development, National Senior Certificate results and improvement plans for 2025, and the curriculum including Coding and Robotics, Mathematics, Science and Technology.
The committee would also look at support for rural education and special schools, user-friendly infrastructure and preparing learners for post-school education/entry to workplace-based learning programmes.
The committee would visit Leruntse Lesedi High School in the North West on Monday. A petition from the School Governing Body was referred to the Portfolio Committee on Public Works and Infrastructure for consideration.
During engagements between the two committees they decided to visit the school with a view to finalise the report to the be submitted to the National Assembly.
The petition calls for the National Assembly to intervene to address the school’s deteriorating infrastructure, which the SGB says poses a direct risk to the safety and well-being of learners and staff.
The committee will then move to schools in the greater Johannesburg and in the Ekurhuleni education districts.
Maimela said the committee visited districts and provinces to monitor and oversee the implementation of key priority areas.
The framework for the state of schooling for the 2025 academic year oversight visits is guided by key interventions and priorities for the basic education sector, which are set out in major government plans to ensure that enabling conditions for quality teaching and learning are established.
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