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Vision, Mission and Strategic Priorities 

of the DoE



 
 

Vision

Our vision is of a South Africa in which all our people have access to lifelong education and training opportunities, which will in turn contribute towards improving the quality of life and building a peaceful, prosperous and democratic society.

 

Mission

To provide leadership in the construction of a South African education and training system for the 21st century.

 

Major Strategic Priorities for the Next Five Years

  • Making our provincial system work by making co-operative government work.

  • Breaking the back of illiteracy among adults and youths in five years.

  • Developing schools as  centres of community life.

  • Ending conditions of physical degradation in South African schools.

  • Developing the professional quality of our teaching force.

  • Ensuring the success of active learning through outcomes-based education.

  • Creating a vibrant further education and  training system to equip youth and adults to meet the social and economic needs of the 21st century.

  • Building a rational, seamless higher education system that grasps the intellectual and professional challenges facing South Africans in the 21st century.

  • Dealing urgently and purposefully with the HIV/AIDS emergency in and through the education and training system.

 

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