KEY TRENDS IN EDUCATION SPEND


KEY TRENDS IN EDUCATION SPEND


TABLE 10: Electricity source facility grid in ordinary schools Province


No. of Sites


EC FS


GP


KZN LP


MP


NW NC


WC Total


5715 1543 1994 5835 3918 1540 1740 609


1466 24460


Electricity Supply


4538 1395 1983 4278 3627 1337 1648 587


1464 20857


1177 248 11


1557 291 203 92 22 2


3603


No Electricity Supply


Unreliable


Electricity Supply 117 34


103 411 68 15 13 28 11


800


Solar Panel on Site


1141 35 0


369 290 0 5


13 2


1855


Generator on Sites


32 0 1


47 10 0 1 3 2


97


Municipal Grid Connection on Site


3431 1364 1982 3889 3395 1337 1642 576


14460 19076


One site could have more than one type of electricity source


TABLE 11: Water source facility grid in ordinary schools Province


No. of Sites


EC FS


GP


KZN LP


MP


NW NC


WC Total


5715 1643 1994 5835 3918 1540 1740 609


1466 24460


Water Supply


4596 1393 1994 5226 3599 1442 1695 603


1466 22016


No Water Supply


1117 250 0


609 319 98 45 6 0


2444


TABLE 12: Fencing and security facility grid in ordinary schools Province


Fencing Total Sites


EC FS


GP


KZN LP


MP


NW NC


WC Total


5715 1643 1994 5835 3918 1540 1740 609


1466 24460 Wire


4479 1453 1372 5092 3557 1164 1583 574


1312 20586


Palisades (Stone)


77


117 441 127 28 39 60 26 90


1005


Palisades (Concrete)


19 18


345 273 11 10 15 4


21 716


Brick 86


61


281 124 22 13 62 43 66


758


Total


4661 1649 2439 5616 3618 1226 1720 647


1489 23065 One site could have more than one type of water source


Unreliable Water Supply


325 54 68


1168 655 147 77 30 9


2563


Borehole/Rain Harvesting on Site


2574 513 205


2541 1627 409 664 217 173


8923


Communal Water Supply on Site


575 132 478 396


1590 441 352 142 399


4505


Mobile Tankers Water Supply on Site


44 55 16


357 194 168 68 7


86 995 One site could have more than one type of water source


at that school. There is national policy on this issue, including provision for automatic exemption of all grant recipients. However, there are also many reports that the policy is not well implemented.


NATIONAL SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMME


Assistance is provided to all public primary schools in quintiles 1, 2 and 3 as well as to quintile 1 secondary schools. The latter were


a new innovation in 2009/10. Several of the provinces note that they plan to extend cov- erage to quintile 2 secondary schools dur- ing 2010/11. Mpumalanga notes that a policy shift calling for such extension would cost the province close on R59 million.


The Provincial Budgets and Expenditure Review


(National Treasury, 2009: 40)


notes that, in addition to the money for the food itself, additional funding is provided to provinces for related infrastructure at schools, such as kitchen equipment, garden tools, and eating and serving utensils. Ad-


ditional funding was also provided for the 2009 MTEF period for improvements to the quality of meals.


All provinces discuss infrastructure in their budget books. This is appropriate given the backlogs and deficiencies. At least some of the infrastructure expenditure is funded through the provincial infrastructure condi- tional grant which is provided by National Treasury to provincial treasuries, but with an instruction that education is one of the priority areas.


Municipal Water Supply on Site


1679 742


1433 2267 696 523 807 286 886


9319


The narrative to the national Basic Edu- cation vote notes that the country lacks “credible” information on existing facilities and infrastructure and that this has ham- pered addressing shortcomings and meant that provision of infrastructure has not been guided by national or provincial policies and norms. The information is currently being updated to create a new “national educa- tion infrastructure management system.”


SCHOOL INFRASTRUCTURE


The School Register of Needs Survey (SRN) conducted in 1996 and 2000 re- sulted in the first comprehensive database on school infrastructure in the history of education in South Africa, providing infor- mation on physical facilities, basic services, learning


material and equipment. During 2006, another assessment was conducted, expanding on the two previous surveys. The report, namely the National Education In- frastructure Management System (NEIMS) was published in September 2007.5


No Fencing


Total 1171


133 64


458 339 347 116 23


108 2759 %


20 8 3 8 9


23 7 4 7


11


Electric Fence


4 2


39 10 3 1 4 2


17 82


Security Gates


4357 1427 1883 5441 3612 1366 1670 570


1339 21665


Access Control


38 29


838 630 49 7


22 9


221 1843


The following examples give a sense of the different challenges faced by particular provinces:


• In Eastern Cape the emphasis within infrastructure is on providing for roll-out of Grade R, replacement of mud structure schools and non-school buildings.


• In Free State the aim is to build 11 new schools and improve 4 schools so as to eliminate the platooning system, whereby different children are taught in different shifts so as to allow limited infrastructure and teachers to accommo- date a greater number of children.


• Gauteng plans to build new schools and ad di tional classrooms to provide for an “expanded” population.


• In KwaZulu-Natal planned infrastructure activity includes construction of a relatively large number of schools as well as adding classrooms, toilets, computer rooms, laboratories and media centres in existing schools.


• Limpopo records 815 schools with more than 45 learners per classroom, 681 schools in very poor condition, and 694 schools with more than 50 learners per toilet seat.


• Mpumalanga prioritises the building of additional classrooms in existing schools and the rehabilitation/upgrading of existing classrooms. This is needed, among others, to eliminate instances where children learn (or attempt to learn) under trees. The province notes that the function has been “carried over” to the Department of Public Works and Transport. The implications of this carrying over are not clear.


• Western Cape’s emphasis is addressing classroom backlogs in poor and expanding communities.


5 National Education Infrastructure Management System (NEIMS), 2009 pp 25 - 28.


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