This impacted negatively upon the efficiency of the department and has compromised the systems approach to develop a sectoral approach to education. Consequently co-ordinated delivery of services has been hampered. The department has undertaken a comprehensive re-structuring exercise, in an attempt to address the issue and a quest for regionalisation. It is anticipated that such regionalisation will improve delivery and take services closer to the schooling system and an interaction within communities. The department has completed the rationalisation and redeployment exercise.
Some problems exist in respect of teachers in scarce subjects.
The department will be advertising these posts in the near future. Promotional posts that were advertised are now being rapidly filled. In terms of Human Resources only the planning of the workplace analysis has been done due to regionalisation and is currently being worked on comprehensively. Implementation of the Norms and Standards for Funding Schools is a very complex exercise and is proceeding slowly but steadily. The core objectives based on constitutional and other legislative mandates have been done and approved by the Provincial Cabinet Committee.