This document discusses a proposed national partnership in South Africa between government, businesses, labor organizations, and communities to improve basic education outcomes. It notes that current business efforts in education are fragmented and lack coordination, monitoring of impact, and sustainability. The proposed partnership would establish agreed indicators to monitor learning outcomes, quality of teaching, and other metrics. It would also create an interlocking set of classroom to district-level support interventions, tools to track progress, and open educational resources to deliver curriculum and training. The partnership aims to pilot its approach across 5 districts in 3 provinces and identify funding needs over the next few years to scale up solutions and drive real change in South Africa's education system.

1. What is the Role of Business in Public
Basic Education?
17 October 2012
Venue sponsored by: Research sponsored by:

2. An Update on Progress
Towards a National Partnership
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THE IMPACT OF BUSINESS EFFORTS IN EDUCATION

3. A NATIONAL SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP TO
IMPROVE LEARNING OUTCOMES:
• Burning Platform
• High investment – poor returns
WHY? • Fragmentation of Effort
• Limited instruments to monitor impact
• No legacy of changed practices in government
• Does not locate responsibility where it must be
sustained
• Not systemic
• Little proof of concept at scale
• Low morale and limited sense of agency
• 50 –60 participating organisations collaborating
WHO? on design and materials (OER)
• Partnership: Government, Labour, Business,
Community
WHAT?

4. IMPROVED LEARNING OUTCOMES NSC - ANA - COMMON TESTS
CHANGE
HOW CAN WE
• ATTENDANCE HELP YOU?
• CURRICULUM COVERAGE
• QUALITY MEAL ON TIME
• A DASHBOARD OF AGREED INDICATORS
• MONITORING AND REPORTING
• RESPONDING LEARNER
PARETNS AND COMMUNITY
CLASSROOM SCHOOL
DISTRICT OFFICE LEARNING
TEACHER MANAGEMENT TEAM
AND
AN INTERLOCKING SET OF SUPPORT INTERVENTIONS
TEACHING
• JUST IN TIME • 9 MODULE SUPPORT
SUPPORT SCHOOLS TO MATERIAL
TRAINING ‘COLLEGE’
DELIVER CURRICULUM:
• LTSM ATTENDANCE MEAL
SKILLS AND
FOCUSED • MENTOR SUPPORT
INSRUMENTS TO
• PLANNING ON SITE PEER SUPPORT
RESPOND TO REPORTS-
SUPPORT • REAL TASKS
WAR ROOM AT CIRCUIT
• DEMAND - • MMR SUPPORT READING AT
AND DISTRICT LEVEL
SUPPLY HOME

5. PROGRESS
NATIONAL A National Initiative To Improve Learning Outcomes
PLANNING
COMMISSION
• Ministerial (DBE) encouragement to work with
3 PROVINCES – provinces
5 DISTRICTS • Statements on Intent in process (PDoE and Unions)
• Scope: District specific change story; current
initiatives underway
• Identify funding gap over MTEF period
DEPARTMENT Partner in innovative technology applications
OF SCIENCE &
TECHNOLOGY
TOOLS BEING Framework of instruments to track progress and
DEVELOPED respond
OER resources for support interventions

6. For more information contact:
Marianne Scott, Director: Schooling
+27(0)11 544 6000; scott.marianne@nbi.org.za
www.nbi.org.za