page_title: Gauteng
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Gauteng / Education
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context_page_description: Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means "place of gold".
  Situated in the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province in South Africa, accounting for only 1.5% of the land area. Nevertheless, it is highly urbanised, containing the country's largest city, Johannesburg, its administrative capital, Pretoria, and other large areas such as Midrand and Vanderbijlpark. As of 2019, Gauteng is the most populous province in South Africa with a population of approximately 15 million people according to estimates.
context_section_description: Gauteng is a large center of learning in South Africa, and it has many universities and educational institutions of higher learning.
  African Leadership Academy
  CTI Education Group
  Damelin
  Lyceum College
  Midrand Graduate Institute
  Monash University South Africa Campus
  Rabbinical College of Pretoria
  St Augustine College of South Africa
  Tshwane University of Technology
  University of Johannesburg
  Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
  University of Pretoria
  University of South Africa
  University of the Witwatersrand
  Vaal University of Technology
  In 2002, the Gauteng Department of Education founded an initiative called Gauteng Online in an attempt to get the entire province to utilize a wide assortment of electronic and telecommunications systems. In 2007, this initiative was handed over to the Gauteng Department of Finance.
  In the 2013 national budget speech, it was announced that the Gauteng Department of Education would be granted over R700 million to improve education and to alleviate issues concerning the overcrowding in schools, a shortage in teaching staff and transport for poor pupils.
  In 2017/2018, the Gauteng Provincial government spent R42.4 billion on education which accounted for 38% the province's total expenditure.
caption: University of Pretoria's Old Arts Building
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