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LS N SCHOO Since 1994, aAFR ACT streamICA of national and provincial ICYlaws education and policies has SOU ION POL alteredTH the landscape CAT of South African schooling dramatically, EDU ACTreplacing the discriminatory IONAL CATORS and fragmented EDU NAT ALS ERI under OF legal framework apartheid with a uniform systemMEN D MAT the constitutional LOY aimed atTmakingNS right to education a reality & RELATE EMP for the people of South Africa. ULATIO REG AND Schools and the Law describes and explains the current legal framework governing our schools. It addresses the key legal and policy instruments affecting schools and covers the growing body of case law on schools and education.
The range of critical topics discussed in the book include: ! the impact of the Constitution ! school admission policies and practice ! language use and freedom of religion at schools ! the powers of school governing bodies ! state funding and school fees ! learner discipline, suspensions and expulsions ! learner safety, bullying and sexual harassment
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Brendan Barry is an attorney and director of the law firm Cheadle Thompson & Haysom Inc in Johannesburg. He specialises in legislative drafting and public administration law and has played a central role in drafting a range of education related laws since 1994, including the South African Schools Act, the Higher Education Act and various provincial laws on education. In the course of his legal practice he has advised a cross-section of participants in the school system, from education departments, parliamentary committees, teachers’ unions and professional bodies to school governing bodies, schools and parents.
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his, our final edition for 2010, includes articles on three important research-based reports that have been released over the past few months. These are a report by the Bureau for Economic Research (BER) of the University of Stellenbosch on the cost to this country of illiteracy, a report by the HSRC on educator leave-taking and its impact on schooling, and a report by McKinsey & Company on a second study that it has undertaken on school improvement efforts that have delivered results. We hope that our articles covering these reports will encourage all of our readers to get hold of copies of the full reports because of the wealth of data and insights that they provide on critical aspects of our schooling system and our own attempts to improve learner performance. Each of these reports is of interest in its own right. However, if you read them, as we have done, against the background of the performance agreement that Minister Angie Motshekga signed on behalf ..2 In this issue: ........................ of her department towards the end of October, you will better understand the Research..........schools -- a better ent Schools leading need for putting into practice some of the lessons that can be learned from these school improvem approach to ...4 reports. Our schooling system has been stuck in low-performance mode for ........................ News.............. to a schools off far too long with massive negative consequences for our economy and for the new Getting better start? ...6 majority of the children of this country. The McKinsey report suggests in its ........................ News..............foundations of findings that stalled improvement efforts can be triggered into movement and the Establishing School progress by one of three things: a socio-economic crisis, a ‘high profile’ critical Claremont High ..............7 ............ report on the performance of the system or a change in leadership. Perhaps the News..............UCT and Westerford ..8 release of the reports at this time will act as the trigger necessary to inject a ........................ ............ degree of energy into our own reform efforts. We also have a new DG in place best News.. the world’s UCT -- Amongst so let us hope that the combination of these two factors will at last provide the 9 universities ............ impetus for better performance that is so desperately needed. ............ Research..........the health of our and Finally a word of apology for the very late delivery of this and the previous School data system 3edition. We have been working hard behind the scenes to try and ensure the schooling ......................1 Opinion............ long-term sustainability of Volume School Management & Leadership and for this 5 – Numbe fixing our schools 4 How to start r1 .......................1 to happen we needed to find it a home or partner it with a larger and more Management..school year plan ACT established business entity. This and the last edition have been a joint effort your Developing ..19 . .. SCHOOLS a consequence CAN ACT of some teething ........................ with such an entity and the delays have been CY DoE News.. of NEEDUSOUTH AFRI ON POLI progress, however, has been CATI problems this arrangement. Recent 2 The birth pains EDUfrom Lresulting ............2 ONA ............ CATORS ACT NATIgood LSkinds ............ LEADE and we go into the EDU new year with greater confi denceERIA that these NSC..... OF Science results RSHIP Physical TED MAT OYMENT of the past MANA that 2009 NSC RELA EMPL & and of delays are a thingONS that School Management & Leadership explanation GEME NT GOVE LATI -- finally an REGU RNAN moreFOR regularly but that it will continue to provide our ANDwill 4 not only reach youCE makes sense SOUT H AFRICAN .......................2 SCHO readers with news, comment and advice on issues pertaining to the leadership, NSC................. OLS is an NSC? How good management and governance of this nation’s ..........28 Inschools. this
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