WCED-Stratplan-2020-2025

 

Summary

The Western Cape Education Department's 2020-2025 Strategic Plan focuses on achieving quality education for every child amidst challenges like high learner in-migration and significant budgetary limitations. Academically, the department is broadening its curriculum focus from STEM to STEAMAC, incorporating Arts, Agriculture, and Coding, while simultaneously emphasizing early literacy and numeracy and improving National Senior Certificate examination outcomes. Operational priorities include improving school management and accountability through the new School Evaluation Authority (SEA) and strengthening school safety via enhanced perimeter fencing and the "Transform to Perform" social intervention strategy. The document highlights that delivering on these targets will be severely strained by a diminishing fiscal envelope and risks associated with an aging teacher and management corps.