1. Western Cape Education Department
Management and Governance Indaba
25 February 2012
- The role of Institutional Management and
Governance during an era of ‘Education Crisis’ -
Presenter:
Dr Muavia Gallie (PhD)
Education Moving Up Cc.
muavia@mweb.co.za
http://muavia-gallie.blogspot.com
http://iwanttoturnaroundmyschool.blogspot.com
Content
1. Awareness: We don’t know what we don’t know – State
of Education in SA (4-17);
2. Proposition 1 – Human capital at layers beyond the
schools;
3. Proposition 2 – Education is a ‘people’ intensive activity;
4. Proposition 3 – The biggest Untruth about Education in
SA;
5. Proposition 4 – Compliance is a 25% level of
Performance;
6. Proposition 5 – Difference between Institutional
Management and Governance
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2. Introduction
• This presentation is not personal, but it is about
PEOPLE;
• Since what is going wrong in the education system, has
nothing to do with money, but it is about the PEOPLE;
• What I present is not based on opinion, but rather data
(information);
• This conversation is certainly not about ‘being politically
correct’, but rather the ‘uncomfortable conversations’
we tend to avoid!;
• Finally, I don’t defend constituencies (learners,
teachers, department, etc.), but rather Education and
the future of our country!
Awareness Test
Do we know what
we don’t know?
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6. Average % scores after re-marking
45
Eastern Cape
40 Free State
Gauteng
35
KwaZulu Natal
Average Percentage
Limpopo
30
Mpumalanga
25 Norther Cape
North West
20
Western Cape
South Africa
15
Gr 3 Literacy Gr 3 Numeracy Gr 6 Languages Gr 6 Mathematics
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7. Success rate = 8,1%
• Success-rate of the system = 8,1%
• Of every 12 learners starting Grade
One, only 1 learner attains what the
system is promising them - data 2005!
Access vs Success
Short-Listing
Employment
Quantity
Quality
Whether you Pass! How you Pass!
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8. % Different Types of schools in SA
Quality of Pass (Grades)
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
Quantity of Pass
50%
40% 20%
30%
20% 50%
10%
0% 20%
-10%
-20% 10%
Anti- Dysfunctional Under- High-
Functional Performing Performing
2011 Matric Results
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9. Japp
So, if we spend all this
money (2011/12 = R178b;
2012/13 = R190b; 2013/14
= R218b; R236b 2014/15)
on education, why are the
children not benefiting?
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10. Teachers Facilitating
Learning
Teacher Conditions of
Unions Service
School Managing
Leaders Teaching and
Learning
Proposition 1
Circuit and Support and
District Development
the schools
Four Layers of Expertise
at layers beyond
Human Capacity
Provincial, Systems
National, Thinking
Ministerial
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11. CDE – 7 September 2011
Proposition 2
Education is a
‘People’ intensive
activity
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12. Thomas Jefferson
There is nothing more
unequal, than the
equal treatment of
unequal people.
80/20 Principle
20%
80%
80%
20%
INPUT OUTPUT
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13. Proposition 3
The biggest
Untruth about
Education in
South Africa!
We have started to
believe that the
Creator will
apportion IQ based
on your Economic/
Social Status!
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17. ACCOUNTABILITY SCALE
25%: 50%: 25%
Compliance
towards
Seniors
50%
Job
25% Description -
Salary
25%
Support and
50% Development
- Juniors
Example:
Employment of Teachers
• Qualification as a Teacher in subject
(whether he/she has the subject expertise);
• Registered with SACE (professionally and
ethically accountable);
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• Whether he/she can teach the subject
(pedagogical skills);
• History of success in teaching the subject
and particular grades, etc.
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18. Proposition 5
Difference between
Institutional
Management and
Governance
Strategic Planning Process
AGREEMENTS
(Let's do it!)
MANAGEMENT GOVERNANCE
Specific STRATEGIES Generic
(How can we do it?)
INNOVATIONS
(What can we do about it?)
SYSTEMS
(Why is it happening?)
INDICATORS
(What is happening?)
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19. Example:
15 Dec 2011 Regulations
20% 120%
100%
20%
50% 80%
80%
60%
40%
20%
AFS DFS UPS HFS
Final Points:
• Appoint people who can do the job, not people who
belong to a group; because they are connected; etc.;
• As a principal – if you don’t care about every learner in
your school as much as you care about your own child,
then you are in the wrong job …;
• As an official, if you don’t know, can’t do (display), or is
not better than those whom you need to manage, guide,
etc., they will never TRUST what you say;
• In a functional system, you can get away with people
managing “generally”, but in a dysfunctional system,
you have to have the specific (technical) capacity and
skills to manage and lead – ability to show them how to
do things – WALK THE TALK!
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