*Young Communist League of South Africa Gauteng Province* *Statement on Education Budget Speech*
*Tuesday, 12 July 2011* The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) welcomes the tabling and notes the budget speech for education presented by Comrade Barbara Creecy, Gauteng MEC for Education in the provincial legislature today. The Gauteng education budget for 2011/12 is presented in the context of the still persisting global crisis of capitalism which has had a devastating impact on workers and the poor and state revenue. Despite this challenge the education budget has increased by 13.6% from that of the previous year, by R3.1 billion in Rand terms. We note that 74% of the budget will be spent on remuneration for teachers, school administrative staff and office based personnel. The Gauteng Education Department is right that well capacitated personnel and personnel expenditure are most important in the education process. The Gauteng Education Department has developed a number of intervention strategies and programmes to expand access and improve the quality of learning and teaching, teacher and learner performances and results. The 2010/11 Matric results in which for the first time Gauteng took a lead of all provinces serve as one of the important indicators. As the YCLSA, we will continue to participate in the formulation and implementation of these strategies and programmes inclusive of Maths, Science and Technology Strategy. The Twenty First Plenary Session of our Provincial Executive Committee as the YCLSA in the province will reflect on the education budget in detail by the end of this month, July 2011 in relation to our Joe Slovo Right to Learn Campaign which is aimed at achieving free and quality education and training and best results. *Contact:* *Alex Mashilo – YCLSA Gauteng Provincial Secretary* *Cell: 082 9200 308 * -- Venceremos -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
