Adult Education South Africa

This archive collects together publications, papers, reports and documents on adult education or related topics mainly from South Africa and by South African authors.

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By year:

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999

Keywords:

accreditation, academic support, adult basic education, adult education, adult educators, adult further education (AFE), adult learning, advocacy, Africanisation, alternative education, assessment, associations, career guidance, certification, class, colleges, community, community colleges, CLCs (community learning centres), community service, compensatory education, competency, computers, conferences, co-operative education, curriculum, development, disability, distance education, donors, Eastern Cape, ecology education, educators, ECD (Early Childhood Development), ETDP (Education, Training and Development Practitioner), evaluation, extension lectures, family literacy, finance, FET (Further Education and Training), governance, globalization, health education, higher education, history, HRD (Human Resource Development), ideology, implementation, IT (Information Technology), KwaZulu, KwaZulu-Natal, language, legislation, libraries, lifelong learning, literacy, management, MIS (Management Information System), materials, media, modularisation, monitoring and evaluation, Natal, NQF (National Qualifications Framework), night schools, non-formal education, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), numeracy, outcomes, partnerships, people’s education, professional education, plan, projects, practitioners, provision, PALCs (Public Adult Learning Centres), radio, reading, RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning, RDP (Reconstruction and Development Programme), research, resources, S&T (Science and Technology), second language education, sex and gender, skills, South Africa, special needs, standards, statistics, students, study skills, TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training), television, training, trainers, unions, visual literacy, voter education, WEA (Workers Educational Association), Western Cape, women, worker education, workplace learning, universities, university extension, youth

Year

The 1990s

1990

Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative: 1990

Discussion points on strategic options

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19900320
Reference: Walters, S. 1990. Discussion points on strategic options. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education

Description: A discussion paper for the meeting of University-Based Adult Educators to be held on 9 April 1990 that looked at strategic options, organisational strategies and mechanisms, practical implementation issues, and sponsorship of adult education research in the current context

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Letter on forthcoming conference

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19900320
Reference: Walters, S. 199003. Letter on forthcoming conference. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education

Description: Last page of covering letter on draft programme listing some representatives to be invited

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Programme Adult Education Research Policy Initiatives meeting

Author: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative
Date: 19900408-09
Reference: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative. 2003. Programme Adult Education Research Policy Initiatives meeting.

Description: Programme

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Record of the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT

Author: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative
Date: 1990614-15
Reference: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative. 1990. Record of the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

On the threshold of the present

Author: Muller, J.
Date: 19900614
Reference: Muller, J. 1990. On the threshold of the present. [Document provided to the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Extract from a draft paper looking at the prospects for university intellectuals and for education policy during the political transition

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

A brief description of policy commissioning processes in the Urban Foundation

Author: Morphet, A.R.
Date: 19900614
Reference: Morphet, A.R. 1990. A brief description of policy commissioning processes in the Urban Foundation. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Describes the policy commissioning process in a context in which there were no authoritative open channels for directing policy proposals to the political decision makers and therefore the need for a "policy community" or network

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

ABE at UCT: Commissioning consultation + research

Author: Hutton, B.
Date: 19900614
Reference: Hutton, B. 1990. ABE at UCT: Commissioning consultation + research. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Describes the ABE programmes work of placing information (books and pamphlets) in the hands of "policy communities" and gives examples of inter university cooperation

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

The Economic Trends Research Group: one model for policy development

Author: Fiske, I.
Date: 19900614
Reference: Fiske, I. 1990. The Economic Trends Research Group: one model for policy development. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Provides a history of the policy developments (initally on sanctions) initiated by COSATU and affiliates such as NUMSA in interaction with other bodies and which redirected academics into research relevant to COSATU (notably via the Economic Trends Research Group)

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

Training workshops for adult educators

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19900614
Reference: Walters, S. 1990. Training workshops for adult educators. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Paper that (with a satirical covering letter) proposes that the universities group proactively prepare a policy document on adult education for the use by the political party

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, research, policy, universities, ideology

Dear Commissar Suttner

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19900615
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1990. Dear Commissar Suttner. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Paper that (with a satirical covering letter) proposes that the universities group proactively prepare a policy document on adult education for the use by the political party

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

Illuminating adult education policy: the priority now?

Author: French, E.
Date: 19900615
Reference: French, E. 1900. Illuminating adult education policy: the priority now? [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Argues the case for a self-initiated policy research process (on the model of Neville Alexander's language research initiative) that prioritises immediate dissemination of guidelines based upon illuminative research already done and in progress and the popularisation of research

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology, language, materials

Models for university based policy research in adult education

Author: Mackie, R.D.A.
Date: 19900615
Reference: Mackie, R.D.A. 1990. Models for university based policy research in adult education. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Presents four models of policy research, each of which requires different organizational structures: Conference/Consultation; Briefing paper/Lobbying; Policy Unit; Co-operative research group

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Towards a formulation of policy research for adult education

Authors: Lyster, E. and von Kotze, A.
Date: 19900615
Reference: Lyster, E. and von Kotze, A. 1990. Towards a formulation of policy research for adult education. [Paper presented at the Universities Adult Education Policy workshop held on 14 and 15 June 1990 at UCT]

Description: Defines the concept of policy research and outlines what adult education provision it should look at: guiding principles, defining needs, provision, models, and finance

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Notes on a meeting of the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative at Pretoria - 6 September 1990

Author: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative
Date: 19900906
Reference: 1990. Notes on a meeting of the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative at Pretoria - 6 September 1990. Universities Adult Education Policy Initiative

Description: Report from University of Natal on discussions between adult educators from the universities of Cape Town, Western Cape, Natal and the Witwatersrand at a meeting held in Pretoria on the need for an adult education policy initiative (in the context of the incoming political transition).

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Notes on a meeting of representatives of the universities of Wits, Cape Town, Natal, Western Cape and Transkei held at the HSRC at Pretoria on the 6 September 1990

Author: Universities Adult Education Policy Research Initiative
Date: 19900906
Reference: 1990. Notes on a meeting of representatives of the universities of Wits, Cape Town, Natal, Western Cape and Transkei held at the HSRC at Pretoria on the 6 September 1990. Universities Adult Education Policy Initiative

Description: Another set of notes from the University of the Western Cape on the meeting reporting on discussions between adult educators from the universities of Cape Town, Western Cape, Natal, Witwatersrand and Transkei at a meeting held in Pretoria on the need for an adult education policy initiative (in the context of the incoming political transition).

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Memorandum from Shirley Walters

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19900923
Reference: Walters, S. 1990. Memorandum. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape

Description: Memorandum on a proposal of a symposium under the auspices of the Universities Adult Education Policy Initiative and the Independent Examination Board

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Letter from Robin Mackie to Shirley Walters on the Inter University Adult Education Group

Author: Mackie, R.D.A.
Date: 19900927
Reference: Mackie, R.D.A. 1990. Letter from Robin Mackie to Shirley Walters on the Inter University Adult Education Group. Durban: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Letter from the Director of the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal expressing concern that the meeting that took place on 6 September appeared to be making premature decisions

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Letter from Clive Millar about the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative

Author: Millar, C.J.
Date: 19900927
Reference: Aitchison,J. 2003. Letter from Clive Millar about the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative. Rondebosch: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town

Description: Letter from the Head of the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town expressing concern that the meeting that took place on 6 September appeared to be making decisions and that they did not support the organisational proposal for the "Adult Education Policy Research Initiative amongst co-operating Universities" (AEPRI) and that universities should rather engage with the proposed National Education Policy Initiative (NEPI)

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities

Letter of protest to Clive Millar on his response to the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19901212
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1990. Letter of protest to Clive Millar on his response to the Adult Education Policy Research Initiative. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: A letter of protest at what is seen as the University of Cape Town's distancing themselves from the university based adult education community

Keywords: adult education, research, policy, universities, ideology

After the Transition: The People Shall Read??

Authors: Prinsloo, M. and Hutton, B.
Date: 199010
Reference: Prinsloo, M. and Hutton, B. 1990. After the Transition: The People Shall Read?? [Paper presented to the Kenton Conference, Port St Johns, October 1990]

Description: History of phases in thought and programmes about literacy internationally and in South Africa : modernisation through literacy (functional literacy), literacy for conscientisation

Keywords: literacy, NGOs, policy

COSATU: Background to literacy proposal

Author: COSATU
Date: 19901122
Reference: COSATU. 1990. Background to literacy proposal. [Document tabled at a COSATU meeting on literacy on 22 November 1990]

Description: Defines literacy, looks at current South African illiteracy statistics, lists problems caused by illiteracy, surveys existing literacy programmes, summarises conclusions of NUMSA survey, outlines a vision of a national system of literacy and NUMSA's proposals at industry and COSATU levels

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, provision, history, worker education

Proposal for COSATU adult basic education project

Author: COSATU
Date: 19901122
Reference: COSATU. 1990. Proposal for COSATU adult basic education project. [Document tabled at a COSATU meeting on literacy on 22 November 1990]

Description: Sees COSATU as having an immediate responsibility to adress literacy and adult basic education and training, outlines underlying principles for an effective literacy programme, and provides several diagrams of the components of such a system, including their articulation and the Recognition of Prior Learning

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, provision, history, worker education

1991

Discussion Paper on Human Resource Development for the Commonwealth Expert Group Meeting, April 1991

Author: COSATU Human Resources Commitee
Date: 199104
Reference: COSATU Human Resources Commitee. 1991. Discussion Paper on Human Resource Development for the Commonwealth Expert Group Meeting, April 1991. COSATU Human Resources Commitee

Description: The document describes the economic crisis and high unemployment, current HRD initiatives, the inadequate legislative framework for provision of training, problems with current training programmes, lack of recognition of informally acquired skills, and outlines COSATU's proposals, which includes clear links between training and adult basic education and literacy programmes and its willingness to colaborate with the new National Education Policy Initiative (NEPI).

Keywords: adult education, worker education, HRD, adult basic education, literacy, policy, research

Training Grassroots Educators: Some Provision of Nonformal Adult Education in the Durban Region

Author: von Kotze, A.
Date: 1991
Reference: von Kotze, A. 1991.Training Grassroots Educators: Some Provision of Nonformal Adult Education in the Durban Region. Durban: Centre for Adult Education University of Natal

Description: Describes the community educator training programme of the Community Adult Education Training Programme (CAETP) of this university Centre and its curriculum and methods

Keywords: adult educators, community, community education, non-formal education, projects, universities, curriculum

National Education Policy Investigation: 1991

Some notes on adult education in South Africa

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1991
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1991. Some notes on adult education in South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Investigation

Description: A draft used by the NEPI Adult Education research group that provides a broad overview of adult education thinking and provision in South Africa

Keywords: adult education, policy, research, universities

NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group (ABE RG): Research Proposal

Author: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group
Date: 1991
Reference: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group. 1991. NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group (ABE RG): Research Proposal. Rondebosch: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group

Description: Proposal which also lists the people responsible for various research areas

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, research, universities

NEPI Adult Education policy research proposal

Author: NEPI Adult Education Research Group
Date: 1991
Reference: NEPI Adult Education Research Group. 1991. NEPI The Adult Education policy research proposal. Second edition. Pietermaritzburg: NEPI Adult Education Research Group

Description: Proposal which also lists the people responsible for various research areas

Keywords: adult education, policy, research, universities

Adult Education: delineating the field

Author: Millar, C.J.
Date: 1991
Reference: Millar, C.J. 1991. Adult education: delineatimng the field. Pietermaritzburg: NEPI Adult Education Research Group

Description: A discussion paper prepared for the NEPI research group on adult education that looks at the concepts and provision of adult education

Keywords: adult education, policy, research, universities, non-formal education, continuing education, lifelong education, development, provision

Education demands and principles of the progressive education movement

Author: Perry, H.
Date: 199105
Reference: Perry, H. 1991. Education demands and principles of the progressive education movement. NEPI Principles and Frameworks Committee

Description: A discussion paper prepared for the NEPI research group on Principles and Frameworks

Keywords: people's education, literacy, adult basic education, policy, research, universities, HRD

Interim Report: Adult Basic Education Research Group, NEPI. September 1991

Author: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group
Date: 199109
Reference: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group. 1991. Interim Report: Adult Basic Education Research Group, NEPI. September 1991. Rondebosch: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group

Description: Interim report that discusses agreements with COSATU and its support for the delay in the allocation of Independent Development Trust funding for literacy work until the key players, a list of which does not include NGOs, reach an agreement on procedure

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, research, universities, finance

Letter introducing writer as convenor of literacy provision sub-group

Author: Hutton, B.
Date: 1990930
Reference: Hutton, B. 1991. Letter introducing writer as convenor of literacy provision sub-group. Rondebosch: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group

Description: Interim report that largely deals with staffing and researcher arrangements

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, research, universities

Interim Report: Adult Basic Education Research Group, NEPI. December 1991

Author: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group
Date: 199112
Reference: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group. 1991. Interim Report: Adult Basic Education Research Group, NEPI. December 1991. Cape Town: NEPI Adult Basic Education Research Group

Description: Interim report that largely deals with staffing and researcher arrangements

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, research, universities

Council for Curriculum Development (CCD) of the Independent
Examinations Board (IEB) and the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education (CACE) colloquium 'Adult education: policy for the future', held in Johannesburg, 11-12 April 1991

Memorandum to universities re proposed symposium

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19900923
Reference: Walters, S. 1991. Memorandum to universities re proposed symposium. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education

Description: Memorandum proposing Independent Examination Board and Universities Adult Education Policy Initiative as hosts of symposium

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, conferences

Letter re invitation to 'Adult Education: policy for the future' colloquium

Author: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education
Date: 199101
Reference: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education. 1991. Letter re invitation to 'Adult Education: policy for the future' colloquium. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board and Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education

Description: Proposal for a policy colloquium

Keywords: adult education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, conferences

Update on Colloquium 4 - Adult Education: policy for the future

Author: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education
Date: 1991
Reference: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education. 1991. Colloquium 4 - Adult Education: Policy for the Future. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board

Description: Details on date and venue and list of participants

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, conferences

Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - Draft programme

Author: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education
Date: 1991
Reference: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education. 1991 Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - Draft programme. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board

Description: Draft programme

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, conferences

Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - List of participants

Author: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education
Date: 1991
Reference: Independent Examination Board and Centre for Continuing Education. 1991 Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - List of participants. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board

Description: Draft programme

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, conferences

Adult education policy for the future

Author: Groener, Z.
Date: 19910411
Reference: Groener, Z. 1991. Adult education policy for the future. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education [Paper presented at the colloquium 'Adult Education: policy for the future' held in Johannesburg on 11-12 April 1991]

Description: Discusses broad trends in current field of adult education and the prospects for future adult education poolicy in a new democratic South Africa and notes the lack of consensus and the dearth of literature, raising two questions: 1. Should there be a comprehensive system of adult education in South Africa? and 2. What are the present initiatives being undertaken in the different sectors to explore policy for the future?

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, NGOs, provision, conferences

Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - Session on 'An adult education system for the year 2010'

Compiler: King, M.
Date: 19910412
Reference: King, M. (Compiler). 1991 Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - Session on 'An adult education system for the year 2010'. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board

Description: Issues discussed (Goals, Resources, Constraints, Structures and Accreditation) and summaries of presentations, discussions and diagrams produced

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, accreditation, assessment, conferences

Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - handwritten notes on Day Two

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19910412
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1991. Colloquium: Adult education policy for the future - handwritten notes on Day Two. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Handwritten notes

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, curriculum, accreditation, assessment, conferences

Inter University Consultation on universities and adult education policy - 19910413

Mackie letter to Walters re Inter University Adult Education Group

Author: Mackie, R.D.A.
Date: 19910201
Reference: Mackie, R.D.A. 1991 Mackie letter to Walters re Inter University Adult Education Group. Durban: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Accepts that there is no point in persuing a common initative but continuing co-operation and interaction is desirable

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities

Background on joint meetings of university-based adult education departments concering adult education policy research

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19910411
Reference: Walters, S. 1991. Background on joint meetings of university-based adult education departments concering adult education policy research. Bellville: Centre for Continuing Education

Description: Outlines a history of meetings and looks forward to the colloquium

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities, history

Inter university Consultation suggested programme and suggested poster presentations

Author: Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy
Date: 1991
Reference: Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy. 1991 Inter university Consultation suggested programme and suggested poster presentations. Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy

Description: Draft programme

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities

Letters with report on Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy

Author: Russel, D.
Date: 19910503
Reference: Russel, D. 1991. Letters with report on Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy. Johannesburg: Centre for Continuing Education, University of the Witwatersrand

Description: Report on consultation with decsions on future conferences

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities

Natal Adult Education Conference: Putting Adult Education on the map - held on 2 - 3 August 1991 at the University of Durban-Westville, and the Natal Adult Education Forum

Covering letter and List of participants at the Natal Adult Education Conference

Author: Naidoo, K. and Education Contact Network.
Date: 19910802003
Reference: Naidoo, K. and Education Contact Network. 1991. Covering letter and List of participants at the Natal Adult Education Conference. Durban: SACHED Trust and Education Contact Network

Description: List of participants seen as the basis for an adult education database

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, NGOs, conferences

Welcome address to Natal Adult Education Conference

Author: Naidoo, K.
Date: 19910802
Reference: Naidoo, K. 1991. Welcome address to Natal Adult Education Conference. [Paper presented at the Natal Adult Education Conference held on 2 to 3 August 1991 at the University of Durban-Westville]

Description: Describes background to the Conference initiated by SACHED and funded by Interfund Report to look at the future directions, resource utilization, SACHED's role and need to develop a Natal Adult Education Forum

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, provision, worker education, NGOs, conferences

Conference address by Enver Motala

Author: Motala, E.
Date: 19910802
Reference: Russel, D. 1991. Conference address by Enver Motala. [Paper presented at the Natal Adult Education Conference held on 2 to 3 August 1991 at the University of Durban-Westville]

Description: Broad theoretical description of the role of adult education in the world and South Africa and the new institutional forms it might take in South Africa

Keywords: adult education, policy, provision, finance, conferences

SACHED proposal for the formation of a Natal Adult Education Forum

Author: SACHED
Date: 19910503
Reference: SACHED. 1991. SACHED proposal for the formation of a Natal Adult Education Forum. Durban: SACHED [Document presented at the Natal Adult Education Conference held on 2 to 3 August 1991 at the University of Durban-Westville]

Description: Proposal for a way forward after the Conference including working groups, creation of a forum, and a regular newsletter

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, NGOs, conferences

Notes on the conference

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19910503-04
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1991. Letters with report on Inter university Consultation on Universities and Adult Education policy. Johannesburg: Centre for Continuing Education, University of the Witwatersrand

Description: Handwritten notes on the Conference

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, provision, finance, NGOs, research, universities, conferences

Letter from John Aitchison to Kumi Naidoo

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19910826
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1991. Letter with from John Aitchison to Kumi Naidoo. Johannesburg: Centre for Continuing Education, University of the Witwatersrand

Description: Evaluates the May Conference and advises a cautious process of setting up a Forum

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, NGOs, universities, conferences

Natal Adult Education Forum - draft minutes of 26 August 1991

Author: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee
Date: 19910503
Reference: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee. 1991. Draft minutes. Durban: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee

Description: Draft minutes

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, research, universities

Natal Adult Education Forum - final minutes of 26 August 1991

Author: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee
Date: 19910503
Reference: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee. 1991. Final minutes. Durban: Natal Adult Education Forum planning committee

Description: Final minutes

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, policy, NGOs, universities

1992

Acid rain on community education and computers - a debate

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W., Morphet, A.R., and Hallowes, D.
Date: 1992
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W., Morphet, A.R., and Hallowes, D. 1992. Acid rain on community education and computers - a debate. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Includes the original paper by John Aitchison (from a 1989 Kenton Conference) and Tony Morphet's and David Hallowes responses to it, and a reworking of the paper for the First national conference on Computers in Development held at the University of the Western Cape in July 1990. The original paper is a meditation on the unintended consequences of the intermingling of radical intellectual aspirations towards building community and the political and education struggles of the time.

Keywords: adult education, community education, development, universities, NGOs, ideology, history, language, computers

Adult Literacy: a social policy for the Mass Democratic Movement of South Africa

Author: Baatjes, I.G.
Date: 1992
Reference: Baatjes, I.G. 1992. Adult Literacy: a social policy for the Mass Democratic Movement of South Africa. Halifax, Nova Scotia: Dalhousie University [Unpublished Master of Arts dissertation]

Description: Argues for integration of literwacy for adults into the struggle to transcend political, social and economic subjugation and facilitateb participation in South African democratisation

Keywords: adult education, literacy, policy, ideology

Adult Literacy Support Programme (Revised)

Author: van Heerden, G., Aitchison, J.J.W., and Naidoo, V.
Date: 19920108
Reference: van Heerden, G., Aitchison, J.J.W., and Naidoo, V. 1992. Adult Literacy Support Programme (Revised). Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Outlines the work of the programme and its finance requirements

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, literacy, NGOs, universities, projects, finance

Post-Basic Adult Education in South Africa: a review of emerging policy developments

Author: Fisher, G.
Date: 199208
Reference: Fisher, G. 1992. Post-Basic Adult Education in South Africa: a review of emerging policy developments. Johannesburg: SACHED

Description: Description of the major education policy actors, the key areas of policy and practice

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, distance education, non-formal education, literacy, NGOs, universities, projects, youth, certification, accreditation

Development Strategy in Adult Basic Education

Author: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies
Date: 199211
Reference: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies. 1991. Development Strategy in Adult Basic Education. Rondebosch: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town

Description: This substantial study was carried out for the Independent Development Trust with the goal of informing donors wishing to provide financial inputs to the ABE field which addresses the existing information base n ABE in South Africa; the strategic pressures in the ABE field; the data on comparative policy frameworks both nationally and internationally, different ways of modelling possible ABE provision in South Africa; and policy guidelines and recommendations to donors. It concludes that all forms of intervention should be directed towards the goal of constructing a national system and therefore there is little support for funding existing non-state initiatives and a bottom-up approach

Keywords: adult basic education, development, policy, NGOs, universities, finance

COSATU Participatory Research Project report

Author: Ngema, C.
Date: 19921109
Reference: Ngema, C. 1991. COSATU Participatory Research Project report. COSATU

Description: Report lists participating organizations and work to be done

Keywords: adult education, worker education, literacy, adult basic education, policy, NGOs, research, universities

Joint Education Trust advert in Weekly Mail for ABE research proposals

Author: Joint Education Trust
Date: 1992
Reference: Z. 1991. Joint Education Trust advert in Weekly Mail for ABE research proposals. Johannesburg: Weekly Mail

Description: Call for proposals to do research into adult basic education needs and provision in each of the nine existing development regions of South Africa

Keywords: adult basic education, research, finance

National Education Policy Investigation: 1992

The National Education Policy Initiative

Author: Nzimande, B.E.
Date: 1992
Reference: Nzimande, B.E. 1992. The National Education Policy Initiative, Transformation, Number 18, pp. 161-165

Description: Explains historical origins of NEPI and its relationship to the NECC, discusses the relations between intellectuals and civil society, and cautions "that we are becoming liberals unawares, and couching our language in a sort of Marxist discourse" and researchers are benefiting from the weaknesses of the mass organisations

Keywords: education, policy, research, universities, ideology, class

COSATU's approach to adult basic education

Author: COSATU
Date: 1992
Reference: COSATU. 1992.COSATU's approach to adult basic education. COSATU

Description: Document produced for the NEPI ABE Commission and the NEPI Human resources Conference - 1992 that outlines the main principles that the state must be centrally involved in combatting illiteracy, and setting up an national ABE system (including for the training and employing of ABE educators), nd also proposes the setting up of a participatory research project on ABE in cooperation with national mass organisations and the National Literacy Cooperation

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, research, policy, NGOs

NEPI Summarised Briefing Papers

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 1992
Reference: Z. 1992. National Education Policy Initiative (NEPI) Summarised Briefing Papers. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Briefing papers on the key policy issues and problem areas for each of the NEPI research groups and includes Adult Education, and Adult literacy and Basic Education

Keywords: adult education, Adukt Basic Education, policy, research, universities

Gender in Education

Author: Truscott, K.
Date: 1992
Reference: Truscott, K. 1992. Gender in Education: summary of policy recommendations from Truscott. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Truscott's summary of recommendations from a recent work, Education in
Tanzania with a Gender Perspective (by Marjorie Mbilinyi, Patricia Mbughuni, Ruth Mecno and Priscilla Olekambaine: 1991)

Keywords: sex and gender, alternative education, policy

NEPI Production schedule for final reports

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 199202
Reference: Z. 1991. Production schedule for final reports. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Production schedule fior NEPI reports

Keywords: policy, research, universities

Reorganizing the education system: possibilities for the year 2000

Author: Donaldson, A.R.
Date: 1992
Reference: Donaldson, A.R. 1992. Reorganizing the education system: possibilities for the year 2000. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Outlines the current system and provides suggestions on the equitable funding and deracialisation of education, but says nothing about adult education

Keywords: policy, research, NGOs, universities

Aitchison notes on Gelb presentation

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. on Gelb, S.
Date: 1992
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. (on Gelb, S.) 1992. Aitchison notes on Gelb presentation. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative [Notes on a presentation made by Gelb]

Description: Notes on Stephen Gelb's presentation on the black middle class in South Africa

Keywords: class, policy

The proposed economic structure of a post apartheid South Africa

Author: Wolpe, H.
Date: 1992
Reference: Wolpe, H. 1991. The proposed economic structure of a post apartheid South Africa. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Based upon ANC and COSATU policy documents argues for growth through redistribution, a more external orientation of the economy, reduction by manufacturing sector on imported inputs, improved skills training, and, though there must be decisive intervention by the state, an indispensible role for civil society

Keywords: policy, NGOs, community

Brief report on the National Education Conference

Author: Muller, J.
Date: 199206-08
Reference: Muller, J. 1992. Brief report on the National Education Conference. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Outline of the National Education Conference held at the Alpha Training Centre, Broederstroom, 6 - 8 March 1992 which had four NEPI representatives and about 20 other people active in NEPI which notes that the NEPI Briefing papers had made an impact

Keywords: policy, conferences

National Education Conference: Keynote address

Author: Gerwel, J.
Date: 199206-08
Reference: Gerwel, J. 1992. National Education Conference: Keynote address. [Address given at the National Education Conference held at the Alpha Training Centre, Broederstroom, 6 - 8 March 1992]

Description: Describes NECC and Education Conference activities in in 1980s, notes the failure to achieve the goals of people's education and the negative side of the school boycotts, and provides a detaile analysis of current politics of negotiation in the political transition and its implications for education

Keywords: people's education, policy, finance, research, universities, conferences

Letter from Aitchison to Gabashe re Research topics for adult education research group

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19920312
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1992. Letter from Aitchison to Gabashe re Research topics for adult education research group. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description:

Keywords: adult education, PALCs, research, policy, plan, NGOs, universities

Letter from Aitchison to Muller re adult education popular summary

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19920402
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1992. Letter from Aitchison to Muller re adult education popular summary. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Argues that academic support programmes in tertiary educatiuonal institutions are not really part of adult education

Keywords: academic support, adult education, universities

NEPI: Popular summary of Briefing paper for short term negotiations - Adult education

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 1992
Reference: National Education Policy Initiative. 1992. NEPI: Popular summary of Briefing paper for short term negotiations - Adult education. Johannesburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Defines field of adult education, current policy and provision problems, and suggests some non-negotiables in relation to the state

Keywords: adult education, policy, NGOs, finance

NEPI Draft Adult Education report

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1992
Reference: Aitchison,J.J.W. 1992. Adult Education policy and provision. The draft National Education Policy Investigation report on Adult Education. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Detailed report on the adult education situation, international perspectives on adult education, and the emerging policy options.

Keywords: adult education, research, NGOs, universities

NEPI Final Draft of Adult Education report

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 1992
Reference: National Education Policy Initiative. 1992. Adult Education: Report of the Adult Education Research Group. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Condensed report on the adult education situation, international perspectives on adult education, and the emerging policy options.

Keywords: adult education, research, NGOs, universities

NEPI Summary of the report on Adult Education

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 1992
Reference: National Education Policy Initiative. 1992. Summary of the report on Adult Education. Pietermaritzburg: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Summary of the Final report of the NEPI Adult education research group that was later published in a not particularly well edited form by the Oxford University Press in Cape Town 1993

Keywords: adult education, research, NGOs, universities

NEPI Draft Adult Basic Education report

Author: National Education Policy Initiative
Date: 1992
Reference: National Education Policy Initiative. 1992. NEPI Draft Adult Basic Education report. Cape Town: National Education Policy Initiative

Description: Describes current literacy and adult basic education situation, international perspectives on literacy, adult basic education, approaches to education and training, emerging policy directions, and major possible policy options (about which it expresses ambiguity and the need for further research)

Keywords: adult basic education, worker education, literacy, research, NGOs, universities

Conference of University-based Adult Educators: 23 to 24 April 1992

Conference of University-based Adult Educators: programme

Author: Hemson, C.
Date: 1992
Reference: Hemson. 1992.Conference of University-based Adult Educators: programme. Durban: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Programme and list of participants

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, research, universities, conferences

Thinking about new foundations in adult education

Author: Morphet, A.R.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Morphet, A.R. 1992. Thinking about new foundations in adult education. [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara, on 23 to 24 April 1992]

Description: The paper examines the various influences on the intellectual foundations of adult education and the consequences for adult education from the 1970 to the present in South Africa, including the move from an oppositional perspective to a settlement one which is more institutional and technical. It looks for a new synthesizing authority in a time of dispersed and migratory post colonial intellectual authority.

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, alternative education, non-formal education, research, universities, history, ideology, conferences

Adult learning in the diploma course

Author: Millar, C.J.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Millar, C.J. 1992. Adult learning in the diploma course. [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara on 23 to 25 April 1992]

Description: Describes the intellectual foundations and a course outline and list of readings for the Diploma course for adult educatiors at the University of Cape Town and some responses and reflections on it

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, adult learning, curriculum, research, universities, conferences

Training gender-sensitive and feminist adult educators in South Africa - an emerging curriculum?

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Walters, S. 1992. Training gender-sensitive and feminist adult educators in South Africa - an emerging curriculum? [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara on 23 to 25 April 1992]

Description: The paper paper sets out to discuss how adult educators can more effectively be trained to challenge and contribute to changing the oppressive position of women and describes work done by the Centre for Adult and Continuing Education at the University of the Western Cape to do this.

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, sex and gender, research, universities, conferences

Locating university-based Adult Basic Education work

Author: Prinsloo, M.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Prinsloo, M. 1992. Locating university-based Adult Basic Education work. [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara on 23 to 25 April 1992]

Description: A detailed discussion of various theories of literacy (and particularly of the social practices and multiple literacies views) together with an arguement that university involvement in literacy work should be primarily in research, development and training

Keywords: adult basic education, adult education, adult educators, literacy, policy, research, universities, finance, ideology, conferences

Towards a model for university involvement in community-based education

Author: Potter, C., Vinjevold, J., and Russell, D.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Potter, C., Vinjevold, J., and Russell, D. 1992. Towards a model for university involvement in community-based education. [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara on 23 to 25 April 1992]

Description: Describes common features in a number of community-based programmes of the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) of the University of the Witwatersrand

Keywords: community education, non-formal education, adult education, adult educators, certification, research, curriculum, universities, finance, conferences

Adult learning in the diploma course

Author: Gamble, J.
Date: 19920423-25
Reference: Gamble, J. 1992. Workplace Learning: caught between two Ts. [Paper presented at the Conference of University-based Adult Educators held at Redacres, Cedara on 23 to 25 April 1992]

Description: Describes the University of Cape Town's Workplace learning Programme, its ideological foundations and curricuum components

Keywords: adult education, adult educators, adult learning, curriculum, research, development, universities, conferences

The DEAL Trust: 1992

DEAL Trust documents - 1992

Author: DEAL Trust (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 1992
Reference: DEAL Trust. 1992. Johannesburg: DEAL Tust

Description: The Disseminating Expertise for Adult Literacy (DEAL) Trust was a joint venture of four university-based adult education departments or units to assist Adult Basic Education programmes in their work and dissemination of their work nationally and to raise funds. The four participants were the following:

ZENEX Adult Literacy and Basic Information and Policy facility of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Adult Basic Education programme of the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal,
Adult Basic Education and Development programmeof the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Cape Town,
Adult Basic Education Training, Research and Outreach Programme of the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of the Western-Cape.
Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, continuing education, second language education, provision, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

The formation of the Trust was prompted by a potential funder, USAID, wanting the funds to be routed through a consortium of universities involve in ABE support.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, provision, universities, research, finance, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

19920818 DEAL Trust: Aitchison report to Trustees
19921019 DEAL Trust: van Heerden letter to Trustees re advance budgets
19921102 DEAL Trust: Deed of Trust
19921113 DEAL Trust: Centre for Adult Education budget October 1992 - December 1994
19921217 DEAL Trust: van Heerden letter to Trustees

1993

The Deal Trust 1993

DEAL Trust documents - 1993

Author: DEAL Trust (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 1993
Reference: DEAL Trust. 1993. Johannesburg: DEAL Tust

Description: The Disseminating Expertise for Adult Literacy (DEAL) Trust was a joint venture of four university-based adult education departments or units to assist Adult Basic Education programmes in their work and dissemination of their work nationally and to raise funds. The four participants were the following:

ZENEX Adult Literacy and Basic Information and Policy facility of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Adult Basic Education programme of the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal,
Adult Basic Education and Development programmeof the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Cape Town,
Adult Basic Education Training, Research and Outreach Programme of the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of the Western-Cape.
Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, continuing education, second language education, provision, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

The formation of the Trust was prompted by a potential funder, USAID, wanting the funds to be routed through a consortium of universities involve in ABE support. The work started in 1992.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, provision, universities, research, finance, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

1993 DEAL Annual financial statments (draft) for period ending 30 September 1993
1993 DEAL Letter from Mokale to trustees
1993 DEAL Progress Reportfrom CAE UNP for period October 1992 to March 1993
1993 DEAL Progress report to DEAL Trust from CAE
1993 DEAL Proposal to JET for National Coordination ofABE research projects
199306 DEAL Research proposal on university based certificated trainers for adult educators
199308 DEAL Report for the period April - August 1993
19930126 DEAL Letter re meeting with USAID regarding programme budgets
19930301 DEAL van Heerden to trustees
19930321 DEAL Progress report from UCT for period September 1992to February 1993
19930330 DEAL Progress report from CAE UND for period 1 January to 31 March 1993
19930330 DEAL Report from Wits National Adult Literacy Resources Centre
19930331 DEAL Progress report from UWC for the period January to March 1993
19930331 DEAL Semi-annual reportto USAID for period September 1992to March 1993
19930414-15 DEAL Minutes of Meeting of Trustees
19930426 DEAL CAE UNP ABE budget for first quarter 1993
19930625 DEAL JET response to proposal on coordination forABE research
19930707 DEAL Letter from Aitchison to trustees re JET response to proposal
19930810 DEAL Budget for 1 April to 30 September 1993 from CAE
19930820 DEAL Report on meeting with USAID financial controller
19930910 DEAL Trustees meeting Agenda
19930910 DEAL Trustees meeting Notes
19931015 DEAL Notes on teleconference of 15 October 1993
19931025 DEAL Notes on teleconference of 25 October 1993
19931101-02 DEAL Trustee Meeting agenda and minutes
19931112 DEAL National programme for the professional training of adult educators
19931116 DEAL Audit contract
19931124 DEAL Walters to French
19931203 DEAL Budget for CAE for 5th quarter

Centre for Education Policy Development: 1993

Developing a plan of action for setting up a national ABE programme

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1993
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Developing a plan of action for setting up a national ABE programme. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Detailed guidelines for the work of the task force on ABE and examples given of issues to be considered and much use is made of the model for planning in H.S. Bhola's 1984 book on Planning and Organisation of Literacy Campaigns, Programmes and Projects.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Definition of Adult Basic Education

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1993
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993.Definition of Adult Basic Education. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Defines ABE as compared to literacy (itself conceptualised as including the acquisition of 'critical consciousness') and lists some of its knowledge, skills and values components

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy

Draft Discussion Document on ABE Policy

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1993
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Draft Discussion Document on ABE Policy. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Outlines problems withe existing ABE provision, the reasons mass provision of ABE is necessary, the type off ABE wanted, and a set of objectives and proposals for ABE provision and governance (including the integration of ABE into a Department of Lifelong learning, together with some short term pre-election strategies, together with a set of key issues for discussion and debate

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, adult education, policy, lifelong learning, plan

National Youth Service Initiative Technical Team - Education and Training Sub-Group Outline of Brief

Author: National Youth Service Initiative Technical Team
Date: 1993
Reference: National Youth Service Initiative Technical Team. 1993. National Youth Service Initiative Technical Team - Education and Training Sub-Group Outline of Brief. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Brief for the development of a comprehensive plan for a National Youth Service Initiative

Keywords: youth, policy, community education, literacy, adult basic education, voter education, plan

Adult Basic Education Working Group Members

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 199307
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Adult Basic Education Working Group Members. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: List of original members

Keywords: adult basic education, policy

Proposed Agenda for the CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19930720
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Proposed Agenda for the CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Agenda with some notes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 20 July 1992

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19930723
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development.1993. Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 20 July 1993. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes and list of papers distributed at the meeting

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Agenda for the CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 24-25 August 1993

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1993824-25
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Agenda for CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 24-25 August 1993. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Agenda for meeting together with some notes and attached documents

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, youth, plan

Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 24-25 August 1993

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19930824-25
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 24-25 August 1993. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Draft discussion document on ABE policy No 5.

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19930923
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Draft discussion document on ABE policy No 5. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Slightly condensed version of earlier drafts (and which reads as a more directly ANC aligned document) which still outlines problems withe existing ABE provision, the reasons mass provision of ABE is necessary, the type off ABE wanted, and a set of objectives and proposals for ABE provision and governance (including the integration of ABE into a Department of Lifelong learning), together with a set of immediate steps)

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, adult education, policy, lifelong learning, plan

Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 12-13 October 1993

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19931012-13
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Minutes of CEPD ABE Policy Working Group Meeting of 12-13 October 1993. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Letter to members of CEPD ABE Working Group

Author: Favish, J.
Date: 19931208
Reference: Favish, J. 1993. Letter to members of CEPD ABE Working Group. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Letter from Judy Favish outling work to be done

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Minutes of CEPD Policy Staff meeting

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19931209
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Minutes of CEPD Policy Staff meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes

Keywords: policy

South African Committee for Adult Basic Education (SACABE): 1993

Minutes of the National Adult Basic Education Conference

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 19931112-14
Reference: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education. 1993. Minutes of the National Adult Basic Education Conference. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Minutes including précis of addresses by Nomsa Nzimamde, Harbans Bhola and Rosa Maria Torres

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, NGOs, conferences

National ABE Conference Working Group 1 Discussion paper Draft ABE Definition, Aims, Values and Principles

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 19931112-14
Reference: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education. 1993. National ABE Conference Working Group 1 Discussion paper Draft ABE Definition, Aims, Values and Principles. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Discusses understanding of ABE, current situation in South Africa, definition of ABE and its aims, the values that should inform ABE provision, and the principles supporting ABE

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, ideology, conferences

National ABE Conference Working Group 2 Discussion paper Draft Policy framework

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 19931112-14
Reference: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education. 1993. National ABE Conference Working Group 2 Discussion paper Draft Policy framework. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Discusses problems with current provision, ABE as a right, governance, the link between ABE and development, the ABE curriculum and certification, ABE educators, provision, and the phases of a plan of action

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, ideology, HRD, plan, conferences

National ABE Conference Working Group 3 Draft Coordinating structure for ABE

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 19931112-24
Reference: Aitchison,J. 2003. National ABE Conference Working Group 3 Draft Coordinating structure for ABE. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Discusses suitable names for the initiative, how the structure would be composed and how the structure would be started and developed, its functions, and an outline of its structure

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, ideology, plan, conferences

Putting Adult Basic Education on the National Agenda

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 199312
Reference: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education. 1993. Putting Adult Basic Education on the National Agenda. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: A reworking of the three Conference discussion papers

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, ideology, HRD, plan, conferences

Coming in from the cold: Putting Adult Basic Education on the National Agenda - National Adult Basic Education Conference, 12-14 November 1993

Author: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education
Date: 1994
Reference: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education. 1994. Coming in from the cold: Putting Adult Basic Education on the National Agenda - National Adult Basic Education Conference, 12-14 November 1993. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Provides information on the background of the conference, a summary of th proceedings, and the three policy papers adopted at the conference, and also provides a list of the 48 organisations represented

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, ideology, HRD, plan, conferences

Post conference letter with brief progress report, minutes and policy papers

Author: Favish, J.
Date: 199312
Reference: Favish, J. 1993. Post conference letter with brief progress report, minutes and policy papers. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Letter from the Acting Administrative Secretary including a progress report and action suggestions and contact details of regional delegates and executive members

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, conferences

Post conference letter to tertiary sector delegates

Author: Favish, J.
Date: 19931208
Reference: Favish, J. 1993. Post conference letter to tertiary sector delegates. Braamfontein: South African Committee for Adult Basic Education

Description: Letter requesting tertiary delegates to sort out who would be the national representative on the SACABE structure

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, universities, conferences

National Training Board: 1993

National Training Board Annual report 1992

Author: National Training Board
Date: 1993
Reference: National Training Board. 1993. Annual report 1992. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Annual report

Keywords: training, trainers, skills, adult education

NTB Working Committee 4 (Adult Basic Education) Draft final report on curriculum

Author: National Training Board
Date: 199311
Reference: National Training Board. 1993. NTB Working Committee 4 (Adult Basic Education) Draft final report on curriculum. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Detailed descriptions and proposals on currriculum (where it adopts a general competency framework) and stresses core generic competencies, the language of instruction (misleadingly called the language of learning), levels and standards, the implications for implementation, and areas for further research

Keywords: adult basic education, training, trainers, skills, curriculum, competency, policy, research

NTB Working Group 4 (ABE) Draft Final report on training ABE educators Executive summary

Author: National Training Board
Date: 199311
Reference: National Training Board. 1993.NTB Working Group 4 (ABE) Draft Final report on training ABE educators Executive summary. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Describes current inadequate provision, offers a vision of ABE educator training, and makes a number of policy recommendations including ABE within a national education and training department, a multiple delivery system bound by common standard setting, a single qualification and accreditation system, a core curriculum, and minimum pay levels for the five levels of ABE educators

Keywords: adult basic education, educators, training, trainers, skills, curriculum, competency, policy, NGOs, research

NTB Task team Working Committee 3 Final Report on Trainer development

Author: National Training Board
Date: 199311
Reference: National Training Board. 1993. NTB Task team Working Committee 3 Final Report on Trainer development. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Provides an overview of the Committee's activities, a situational analysis of the Education, Training and Development (ETD) field and practioner development, offers an ETD Practitioner model and a description of various roles, and makes recommendations

Keywords: educator, training, trainers, skills, curriculum, competency

Materials Development in Adult Education Conference: 1993

Materials Development in Adult Education Conference papers - 1993

Authors: Individual authors
Date: 19930907-09
Reference: Individual author. 1993. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: The largest national materials development conference ever held in South Africa focusing mainly on the adult education, adult basic education and literacy sector was attended by over 300 people at the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. part from more formal papers there were many practical workshops.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, materials, distance education, universities, NGOs, research

French, E. Trends in ABE: implications for materials development
Liebetrau, J.P. The SABC and adult education: notes on the policy, approach and broadcasting of adult education on Radio and TV
Galombik, N. The use of broadcast and non-broadcast electronic media in South Africa's restructured education and training system
Press, K. et al. Creating a new educational publishing initiative. Extracts from a research report prepared for the Independent Development Trust
Krut, O. Working with publishers: a guide for non-governmental organisations
Coke, D. Panel discussion: Issues in materials development distribution
Lyster, E. The guinea fowl and helium balloon effects: trends in materials development in South Africa
Deetleefs, K. The English literacy and numeracy course for adults: a case study
Bock, Z. USWE's Proposed General Education Course for Adults
Taylor, J. Share-Net
Participatory Rural Appraisal at Stoffelton

Publishing for adult education in a democratic future

Author: French, E.
Date: 1993
Reference: French, E. 1993. Publishing for adult education in a democratic future. In: Kromberg, S. with Meneesha Govender, M., Birrell, N., and Sibanyoni, M. (Eds). Publishing for democratic education. Johannesburg: SACHED Books, pp. 115-129

Description: The piece notes the new possibilities for adult education and adult literacy publishing, the centrality of texts in adult education, the role of the adult educator as as an education broker linking the learner into networks of information and resources, the lack of materials for new literates, and also cautions about the difficulties of the way ahead for adult education. A description is given of exiusting agencies and projects producing adult education material in South Africa.

Keywords: adult education, community education, materials, reading, literacy, language, policy, competency

Adult Basic Education policies

Author: Unknown (possibly CEPD or COSATU)
Date: 1993
Reference: Unknown (possibly CEPD or COSATU). 1993. Adult Basic Education policies.

Description: A substantial document that describes the field of ABE, the concerns related to the problems facing ABE and what is underlying principles and aims should be, the institutional structure (a department of adult and continuing education), financing, the curriculum (a core curriculum), and provision, and also has a Section on draft policy guidelines for ABE based upon the 1991 COSATU resolution on ABE and developed by the COSATU Participatory Research Project (ABE) in March and June 1993

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, curriculum

Community Adult Education Programme (CAEP) Summary of Funding Application

Author: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town
Date: 1993
Reference: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town. 1993. Community Adult Education Programme (CAEP) Summary of Funding Application. Rondebosch: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town

Description: Summary of funding application for a part-time training programme for adult education and development workers to be run in 1994 to 1996

Keywords: adult education, community education, universities

Proposal for introduction of a new programme: Diploma in Adult Education

Author: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town
Date: 1993
Reference: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town. 1993. Proposal for introduction of a new programme: Diploma in Adult Education. Rondebosch: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town

Description: The proposal includes a description of existing practitioner training programmes, the rationale for the new programme.

Keywords: adult education, worker education, universities, curriculum

Core content for an adult basic education curriculum for South Africa

Author: Bock, Z.
Date: 19930531
Reference: Bock, Z. 1993. Core content for an adult basic education curriculum for South Africa. Johannesburg: COSATU Participatory Research Project,COSATU

Description: This detailed research report was submitted by USWE as part of the COSATU Participatory Research Project on ABE. The document looks at language in the curriculum, theories of adult learning, and how curriculum content should be organised. The curriculum should be competency-based and the content located in four themes - Language and Communication, Numeracy and Mathematics, Social Studies and Physical Studies. On langauge it looks at various models and recommends a bilingual model with first language for initial literacy, then dual use (before, if appropriate, moving predominantly to the second language as the medium of instruction), as well as 'language across the curriculum'. Note that some pages (e.g. p. 41e) come from a later date in June 1993.

Keywords: adult basic education, worker education, skills, research, curriculum, competency, outcomes, standards, language, educators, research

Core content for an adult basic education curriculum for South Africa: a COSATU proposal

Author: COSATU
Date: 19930712
Reference: COSATU. 1993. Core content for an adult basic education curriculum for South Africa: A COSATU proposal. Johannesburg: COSATU Participatory Research Project, COSATU

Description: This ABE curriculum proposal comprises edited and condensed sections from the earlier May 1993 document produced by Zannie Bock of USWE for the COSATU Participatory Research Project on ABE.

Keywords: adult basic education, worker education, skills, research, curriculum, competency, outcomes, standards, language, educators, research

Policy recommendations on the training of educators for large scale ABE in South Africa

Author: Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
Date: 19930709
Reference: Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand. 1993. Policy recommendations on the training of educators for large scale ABE in South Africa. Johannesburg: Education Policy Unit, University of the Witwatersrand

Description: Research commissioned by the COSATU Participatory Research Project found a very small resource base of teachers with mainly a part-time and poorly paid profile and with limited adult basic education training. Its many recomendations follow those of COSATU and include that educator training should include common features, four levels and that ABE sub-committees on a (yet to be established) National Education and Training Forum and the National Training Board ensure national coherence in the educator training. There should be a Department of Adult Basic and Continuing Education with an ABE Advisory Council. It proposes a target of 150 000 educators to be trained in the next three years according to a national plan.

Keywords: adult basic education, educators, curriculum, accreditation

A Framework for Lifelong Learning. Draft 1

Author: African National Congress and COSATU
Date: 199306
Reference: African National Congress and COSATU. 1993. A Framework for Lifelong Learning. Draft 1. Johannesburg: African National Congress and COSATU

Description: An ANC/COSATU draft discussion document, as amended by the National Training Policy Workshop: 18 - 20 June 1993 in Johannesburg, that notes the lack of focus on adults, looks at the principle of lifelong learning, contrasts the "two ladders with bridges" model with that of a unified multi-path model (and gives support to the latter), describes options for governance, integrated qualifications system, standard setting, finance and incentives, and an integrated core curriculum provided by a competency-based modular system (note the replacement for section 6.2 attached at the end of the document)

Keywords: lifelong learning, adult education, worker education, curriculum, standards, qualifications, competency, modularisation

COSATU ABE research results

Author: Budlender, D.
Date: 199307
Reference: Budlender, D. 1993. COSATU ABE research results. Johannesburg: Community Agency for Social Enquiry

Description: Results and charts from the COSATU Participatory Research Project ABE survey conducted by Debbie Budlender of the Community Agency for Social Enquiry

Keywords: adult basic education, worker education, community education, lifelong learning, research

National Education and Training Forum Founding Agreement (draft). Revised 28 June 1993

Author: National Education and Training Forum
Date: 19930628
Reference: Sebakwane, M. 1993. National Education and Training Forum Founding Agreement (draft). Revised 28 June 1993. Johannesburg: National Education and Training Forum

Description: Founding agreement of this stakeholder body that specified its mission as being to to initiate, develop and participate in a process involving education and training stakeholders in order to arrive at and establish agreements on: the resolution of crises in education, the restructuring of the education system for a democratic South Africa, and
the formulation of policy frameworks for the long term restructuring of the education and training systems

Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, universities, NGOs, educators, trainers

National Economic Forum report

Author: National Economic Forum
Date: 19930702
Reference: National Economic Forum. 1993. National Economic Forum report. Johannesburg: National Economic Forum

Description: Report

Keywords: training, HRD, educators, trainers, skills

Consolidated recommendations on adult basic education and training

Author: COSATU Participatory Research Project
Date: 199308-11
Reference: COSATU Participatory Research Project. 1993. August 1993 Report - Consolidated recommendations on adult basic education and training. Johannesburg: COSATU

Description: Detailed recommendations on access to education and training, integration, governance and institutional arrangements, standards, curriculum, certification, assessment, accreditation, educator and trauner development, legislation, funding, the role of trades unions and other players, short-term guidance for affiliate negotiations and large number of useful appendices with key documents

Keywords: adult basic education, worker education, lifelong learning, governance, curriculum, standards, certification, accreditation, educators, trainers, finance

The demarginalisation of adult education and the role of universities

Author: Sebakwane, M.
Date: 199310
Reference: Sebakwane, M. 1993. The demarginalisation of adult education and the role of universities. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape

Description: Paper arguing that the new education and training situation requires expertise in adult education, which had previously been marginalised, and the universities can play a stronger role her now

Keywords: adult education, lifelong learning, universities, NGOs, HRD, RPL, modularisation, curriculum, educators, trainers

A Framework for Lifelong Learning. Draft 2

Author: African National Congress and COSATU
Date: 1993813-15
Reference: African National Congress and COSATU. 1993. A Framework for Lifelong Learning. Draft 2. Johannesburg: African National Congress and COSATU

Description: The ANC/COSATU draft discussion document revised at the Training Policy workshop 13-15 August 1993, follows the same structure and largely the dame content as the first draft. It uses the principle of lifelong learning, contrasts the "two ladders with bridges" model with that of a unified multi-path model (and gives support to the latter), describes options for governance, integrated qualifications system, standard setting, finance and incentives, and an integrated core curriculum provided by a competency-based modular system

Keywords: lifelong learning, adult education, worker education, curriculum, standards, qualifications, competency, modularisation

Draft discussion document. A policy framework for education and training

Author: African National Congress
Date: 199311
Reference: African National Congress. 1993. Draft discussion document. A policy framework for education and training. Johannesburg: African National Congress

Description: A partially complete draft with a small section on Adult basic Education (pp. 64-68) which stresses the importance of ABE in reconstructing the economy and society and the eradication of illiteracy, envisages mass scale provision with all sectors being harnessed behind a national plan, an ABE division in a Department of Education and Training and strong role for regional and local authorities in provision, a single national qualification and accreditation structure, and four levels of ABE leading to a General Education Certificate following a national modularised curriculum with both a core and functional options

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, numeracy, NGOs, policy, curriculum, qualifications, accreditation

Reflections on the National Literacy Cooperation meeting

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19931122
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1993. Reflections on the National Literacy Cooperation meeting. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: A (somewhat prophetic) analysis of the organisational issues that the National Literacy Cooperation would face and have to deal with in becoming a more unitary national orgaisation

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, NGOs, HRD, ideology

Reconstruction and Development Programme. 5th Draft

Author: African National Congress and COSATU
Date: 19931126
Reference: African National Congress and COSATU. 1993. Reconstruction and Development Programme. 5th Draft. Johannesburg: African National Congress and COSATU

Description: Policy document which has sections on a National Qualuficatiosn System and Adult Basic Education and states that "All reconstruction projects, and particularly programmes to create jobs, build infrastructure and support micro-enterprise, will include provision for participants to receive general education as well as technical or applied skills.

Keywords: development, ideology, adult basic education, qualifications, skills

Section 5 of the Tyers Report

Author: Tyers, J.
Date: 19931130
Reference: Tyers, J. 1993. Section 5 of the Tyers Report. Johannesburg: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project

Description: The report's recommendations are that the Education, Training and Development Practioner model be further developed and researched in conjunction with stakeholders, implemented over a three year period, and that single body representing all ETD practitioners be created.

Keywords: practitioners, educators, trainers, development

1994

National Training Board: 1994

Discussion Document on a National Training Strategy Initiative. A preliminary report

Author: National Training Board
Date: 1994
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. Discussion Document on a National Training Strategy Initiative. A preliminary report. (Chapters 3 to 7). Pretoria: National Training Board, pp. 99-205

Description: This major and influential report foreshadows many of the future developments in education and training policy and systems. It looks at the provision of education and training within a framework of a National Education and Training Council, a National Qualifications Framework, a South African Qualifications Authority, and the development of Sector Education and Training Organisations (highlighting the concepts of roles, outcomes, the accreditation of units, modules and qualifications, and the registration of providers), partnerships between all sectors, and the recognition of prior learning, funding and governance. Adult Basic Education is given serious attention and is to be provided by all sectors within a national framework and a core curriculum. The terminology of Eduction, Training and Development Practitioners is advocated as is the professionalisation of this fieldn according to a set of principles, with career guidance and development taking into account at least ten roles, outcomes, quality standards and competence. Legislation should also be reviewed. There should be a national Information Database System. Overall it advocates for an integrated system of education and training.

Keywords: practitioners, educators, trainers, skills, competency, standards, outcomes, curriculum, qualifications, accreditation, NQF, NGOs, RPL, development, HRD, adult basic education, legislation

National Training Strategy Initiative report. Chapter 5: Proposed National Training Strategy

Author: National Training Board
Date: 1994
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. National Training Strategy Initiative report. Chapter 5: Proposed National Training Strategy. Johannesburg: National Training Board, pp. 91-164

Description: Outlines the need for an integrated approach to education and traing with a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) at eight levels of study that would reduce the previous "separation moulds". There would be outcomes-based "units of learning" (core and optional) with assigned credits, modules and consistently named qualifications and certificates. There would be standard format for recognition of units. Considerable detail is given on the model for educators and trainers.

The report recommends that the ETD practitioner model be accepted, that "ETD"and "ETD practitioner" be accepted as the definitive terms, that the ETD practitioner profile be further researched and a data base established to serve as a planning tool. Curricula and delivery systems for achieving ETD practitioner outputs should be left as flexible as possible, subject to the requirements of the South African Qualifications Authority. A single body representing all ETD practitioners shoulde be created.

On adult basic education the report recommends that its definition of ABE be adopted, that ABE be seen as an essential part of an integrated approach to education and training, and be part of a multiple access system accessible to all, leading to career paths for both teachers and learners. Access to ABE should be considered as a fundamental human right and the matter of legal entitlement be taken up as part of a process of continuing development.A structured policy be established which will allow an exponential growth of ABE learners and teachers, and which recognises prior learning and experience. An innovative funding formula be devised and implemented to ensure the effective, efficient and affordable ABE system, with the State remaining the major provider.

Keywords: lifelong learning, practitioners, educators, trainers, skills, outcomes, competency, standards, curriculum, assessment, qualifications, certification, accreditation, NQF, NGOs, RPL, development, HRD, adult basic education, research, legislation

National Training Strategy Initiative. Preliminary report. Draft Executive summary

Author: National Training Board
Date: 19940301
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. National Training Strategy Initiative. Preliminary report. Draft Executive summary. Pretoria: National training Board

Description: Though much of the content of this summary made it way into the Executive Summary of April 1994 this draft (by Mark Phillips and the legal firm Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom) provides useful information on the (then) eight working groups and their work

Keywords: lifelong learning, practitioners, educators, trainers, skills, outcomes, competency, standards, curriculum, assessment, qualifications, certification, accreditation, NQF, NGOs, RPL, development, HRD, adult basic education, research, legislation, finance

Discussion document on the National Training Strategy Initiative. Preliminary report. Executive summary

Author: National Training Board
Date: 199404
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. Discussion document on the National Training Strategy Initiative. Preliminary report. Executive summary. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Executive summary which summarises findings and recommendations on International amd National Research, a Proposed National Training Strategy, a National Qualifications Framework, Structures for Governance, Developing Credible Outcomes for Education and Training, the Education, Training and Development Practioner Model, Adult Basic Education, Finance and Incentives, Labour Market Strategy, Rewarding Performance, an Information Dtabase System, and Education and Training Legislation

Keywords: lifelong learning, practitioners, educators, trainers, skills, outcomes, competency, standards, curriculum, assessment, qualifications, certification, accreditation, NQF, NGOs, RPL, development, HRD, adult basic education, research, legislation, finance

National Training Strategy Initiative. Working Committee 9 Financing of training research proposal

Author: National Training Board
Date: 19940823
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. National Training Strategy Initiative. Working Committee 9 Financing of training research proposal. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Examines the current training system and its financing (which is found to be inadequate), looks at alternative methods of financing and sources of revenue, lists the criteria for a suitable funding mechanism, and proposes three main actions to be taken: research and development (related to funding and revenue); preparation of appropriate legislation, and training and policy development

Keywords: finance, development, research,legislation, trainers

National Training Strategy Initiative. Working Group 9 Contributing to the growth of the National Qualifications Framework

Author: National Training Board
Date: 199410
Reference: National Training Board. 1994. National Training Strategy Initiative. Working Committee 9 Contributing to the growth of the National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: National Training Board

Description: Starts with a theoretical discussion of the issue of an NQF and notes acceptance by the new government in white papers of the need for an NQF, then outlines the shape of the proposed NQF with its eight levels, the placement of qualifications on it, its components - levels, standards, generic competencies/learning abilities, units of learning, qualifications, content areaS, and notes issues of quality with flexibility and coherence, assessment and validation, recognition of prior learning, and accreditation. A number of new structures are described -- South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), National Standards Bodies (NSBs), Education and Training Qualification Authorities (ETQAs). An implementation way forward is discussed and the timetable and budget for this.

Keywords: NQF, ideology, outcomes, competency, standards, curriculum, assessment, qualifications, certification, accreditation, NQF, NGOs, RPL, development, adult basic education, research, legislation, governance, finance

Centre for Education Policy Development: 1994

CEPD Brief for coordinators and task teams Draft 3

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940209
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Brief for coordinators and task teams Draft 3. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Explains that the task teams of the CEPD are to prepare an Implementation Plan for Education and Training (IPET) at the request of the ANC Education Department (headed by John Smauel) and that the rolling plan will attempt to interpret the ANC's Education Policy Framework in programmatic terms that will include planning for the implementation of South African Qualifications Authority, National Institute for Curriculum Development (NICD), Provincial Institutes for Curriculum Development(PICDs), National Open Learning Authority, the new national, provincial, and local governance structures, the national initiatives on ABE and Early Childhood Education (ECE) programmes, the National Commissions on Higher Education, Further Education and Special Education, the negotiation process around institutional governance, the reviews of Model C schools and private school financing

Keywords: policy, adult education, adult basic education, plan, NQF, curriculum, distance education

CEPD Memo on the Interim Constitution and Education and Training (draft)

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940325
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Memo on the Interim Constitution and Education and Training (draft). Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Sets out in detail those provisions of the interim Constitution which relate to education and training and the issues which need to be considered by education policy makers as a result of the provisions of the interim Constitution and the steps which education policy makers will have to take once the interim Constitution comes into effect following the election

Keywords: policy, language, plan

A National Qualification Framework (NQF) Implementation Plan including the establishment of the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA)

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 199403
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. A National Qualification Framework (NQF) Implementation Plan including the establishment of the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA). Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: The document notes the ANC's commitment to a NQF, its principles and purposes, the aims, functions and institutional arrangements of SAQA, its relationship to other bodies, its role in curriculum design and ensuring quality and coherence. It also lists who prepared the plan and the CEPD's interim role before SAA is established.

Keywords: policy, NQF, curriculum, qualifications, standards, governance, legislation

CEPD Organograms for education and training system restructuring

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1994
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Organograms for education and training system restructuring. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Organograms for Ministry of Education and associated statutory bodies

Keywords: policy, plan, governance

Responses to CEPD ABE discussion document of 1993

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1994
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Responses to CEPD ABE discussion document of 1993. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Varying responses from Mass Democratic Movement, State education departments, Universities, Technical colleges, Teacher training colleges, Teachers' associations, Religious bodies, Research and policy bodies, Education projects, Profit making educational bodies, and Business

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, finance, governance, NGOs, universities, ideology, unions, practitioners

ANC Western Cape response to Framework for Lifelong Learning

Author: African National Congress (Western Cape) Adult Education Sub-Committee
Date: 1994
Reference: African National Congress (Western Cape) Adult Education Sub-Committee. 1994. ANC Western Cape response to Framework for Lifelong Learning. Cape Town: African National Congress (Western Cape)

Description: Notes the radical nature of the proposals, the lack of definitions of terms, lack of clear references to workplace needs, regrets the distinguishing between adult basic education (limited to compensatory school equivalency) and (the much broader) adult education and highlighting of only the former, the lack of attention to compensatory school equivalency further education), the lack of attention to the economic aspects of adult education, and the lack of access to funding via a structure for broader adult education

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, finance, governance, NGOs

ANC Education Department: Agenda for Meeting with the Minister of Education at the CEPD

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940513
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. ANC Education Department: Agenda for Meeting with the Minister of Education at the CEPD. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Itemises political imperatives relationg to education and training, transitional/rationalisation issues, and policy priorities and implementation plans

Keywords: policy, plan, legislation, governance, finance

CEPD Education finance and the Reconstruction and Development Programme

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 199405
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Education finance and the Reconstruction and Development Programme. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Outlines previous activities, resource needs (especially for Adult
Basic Education, early childhood development, provision of textbooks, classroom construction and school rehabilitation, pupil nutrition and health schemes, school governance and administration, Tertiary Education Loan Scheme, and Teacher Education) and future strategies and mechanisms

Keywords: policy, plan, finance, RDP, adult basic education

Memo from Phillips and Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom to CEPD on process of transition

Author: Phillips, M. and
Date: 19940513
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Memo from Phillips and Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom to CEDU on process of transition. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Sets out the steps for creating a single Ministry of Education and new national Education Department and draft legislation for national and provincial levels

Keywords: policy, plan, governance, legislation

CEPD Letter from Favish to ABE Working Group

Author: Favish, J.
Date: 19940516
Reference: Favish, J. 1994. Letter from Favish to ABE Working Group. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Encloses copy of final IPET report

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, governance

Suggested programme of activities for the new Minister of Education

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940518
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Suggested programme of activities for the new Minister of Education. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: List of proposed announcements, events and speeches (the latter including on the development of the new sub-sectors such as Adult Basic Education, Early
Childhood Educare, Library and Information Systems etc.)

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education

CEPD Draft text on education for insertion into President's speech

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940519
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Draft text on education for insertion into President's speech. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: General policy outline that includes "initating a national programme in adult basic education and training on a partnership basis between all levels of government, NGOs, business, labour and community organisations, in order to tackle the deficit in adult and youth literacy and general education" [none of which gets into Mandela's State of the Nation Address]

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education

President Nelson Mandela: 1994 State of the Nation Address 24 May 1994

Author: Mandela, N.R.
Date: 19940524
Reference: Mandela, N.R. 1994. President Nelson Mandela: 1994 State of the Nation Address 24 May 1994. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Policy speech

Keywords: policy, plan, governance, development

CEPD Invitation to proposed workshop on transitional guidelines on training courses at tertiary institution

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940530
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Invitation to proposed workshop on transitional guidelines on training courses at tertiary institution. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Invitation

Keywords: policy, plan, trainers, educators, adult education, NQF, universities, research

CEPD Letter from Favish to John Samuel

Author: Favish, J.
Date: 19940610
Reference: Favish, J. 1994. Letter from Favish to John Samuel. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Letter expressing disappointment that Sameul was not made Director General of the Department of Education

Keywords: policy, governance, ideology

CEPD invitation, agenda and annexures for workshop on transitional guidelines on training courses at tertiary institutions

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940610
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD invitation, agenda and annexures for workshop on transitional guidelines on training courses at tertiary institutions. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Invitation, agenda and annexures of various NQF and qualification tables and a paper by Shirley Walters Towards a national approach to professional training of adult educators and trainers and the response of the University of the Western Cape.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, educators, trainers, practitioners, HRD, NQF, qualifications, universities, research

Report on workshop with tertiary institutions on a qualifications structure for training ETD practioners held on 21st June 1994

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940706
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Report on workshop with tertiary institutions on a qualifications structure for training ETD practioners held on 21st June 1994. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Detailed report

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, educators, trainers, practitioners, HRD, NQF, qualifications, universities, research

CEPD Agenda for ABE Working Group meeting

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940127
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Agenda for ABE Working Group meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Agenda

Keywords: policy, plan, research, distance education, universities, adult basic education

CEPD Developing a plan of action for the ABE task team

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940209
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Developing a plan of action for the ABE task team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Lists recommended areas and sub-areas and general terms of reference in relation to each of the areas to be covered in an implementation strategy

Keywords: policy, plan, research, curriculum, language, assessment, governance, practitioners, training, distance education, development, finance

CEPD Letter of invitation from ABE Task team

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940228
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Letter of invitation from ABE Task team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Invitation to meeting on 28 March on ABE Task team recommendations

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education

CEPD Survey of provisioning capacity in the tertiary and NGO sectors

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940228
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Survey of provisioning capacity in the tertiary and NGO sectors. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Describes CEPD undertaking a survey of current adult education provision and HRD needs in the tertiary and NGO sectors and gives notice of presenting survey findings and some tentative implementation ideas at the University Based Adult Education in Southern Africa Conference, to be held 23 - 25 March 1994

Keywords: policy, plan, research, universities, NGOs, HRD, provision

Letter from Walters and Millar to Favish

Authors: Walters, S. and Millar, C.
Date: 19940330
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Letter from Walters and Millar to Favish. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: On behalf of the University Based Adult Education in Southern Africa Conference (held in Johannesburg from 23-25 March), the writers record the commitment of the participants to support the implementation of the CEPD's proposed plans particularly through the training of adult educators with a coherent set of qualifications which articulate with one another across the country and to support the DEAL Trust's research programme which is seeking to develop a national approach to adult educator training at tertiary institutions. However they note a number of key issues that need to be addressed: access by mature students to tertiary institutions, the lack of university subsidy for open access university courses for adults, and the need to resource the up scaling of adult educator training by these institutions.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, educators, practitioners, universities, research

CEPD ABE Quality Assurance Policy Implementation draft

Author: Sebakwane, M.
Date: 199400
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. ABE Quality Assurance Policy Implementation (draft). Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Provides draft national and privincial staffing estimates for quality assurance bureaucrats, notes the need for affirmative action for staff development, and lists key training areas required, advocates Criterion Refenced Assessment, modularisation, competency-based approaches, gives three options for implementing a standards setting process (use international (decontextualised) standards, use those from South African NGOs, or set up a new South African process) though whatever option is chosen it should involve all stakeholders, and training programmes, learner programmes and ABE providing bodies should accredited

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, curriculum, competency, standards, assessment, accreditation, HRD, provision, training

CEPD Access of ABE in rural areas

Author: Segodi, P.
Date: 19940
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Access of ABE in rural areas. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Links ABE provision in rural areas to the Reconstruction and Development Programme

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, provision, literacy

CEPD Financing Adult Basic Education

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 1994
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Financing Adult Basic Education. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Short term initiatives such as literacy campaigns will be funded from general budget revenues and by donors and donated time and resources and from fees. In the middle term ABE will not be supported from general budget revenues but via incorporation into training programmes and incentives to the private sector with marginalized groups will be mainly served by NGOs supported by Trust funds and matching finance deals. An overall budget of 23 million rands over five years is proposed, 64 % of which would come from government, 14 % from the private sector, 21 % from fees

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, finance, NGOs

CEPD Implementation Plan: ABE curriculum

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Implementation Plan: ABE curriculum. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Outlines the principles, existing policy of ANC/COSATU/SACABE, an implementation strategy with its priorities, management of transition, and a time phase schedule, together with an appendix on the set up of a National Institute for Curriculum Development

Keywords: policy, plan, curriculum

CEPD Towards a human resource development strategy for ABE

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Towards a human resource development strategy for ABE. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Sets out the aims of the research (to focus on structures and procesess within the ABE Directorate of a newly constituted Department of Education and Training) and its time deadlines and presents a skeleton of a draft report looking at structure and governance, training at national and provincial levels, four categories and levels of training (each with target group, entry requirement, functions, pay, curriculum content, length and training, form of provision, and location), offers various implementation suggestions and lists some implementation priorities

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, HRD, curriculum, training, distance education, certification, accreditation

CEPD HRD strategy for large scale provision

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. CEPD HRD strategy for large scale provision. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: The strategy includes Principles, the set up of a National Task Team, a Skills audit, detailed Planning, increasing the Practitioner supply, Curriculum development, and a financial framework

Keywords: policy, plan, HRD, provision, adult basic education, skills, research

Operationalising HRD for National ABET strategy

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. Operationalising HRD for National ABET strategy. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: A proposal that looks at objectives, the recruitment of possible ABET practitioners, mobilisation, an operational strategy, a management team, the trainers of the ABET practitioners, and a trtaining programme

Keywords: policy, plan, HRD, provision, adult basic education, practiotioners, trainers

Some criteria for the selection of adult education bureaucrats

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19940513
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. Some criteria for the selection of adult education bureaucrats. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: List of criteria

Keywords: policy, plan, governance, HRD

CEPD Articulation of ABE & T and Advocacy (Draft)

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940318
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Articulation of ABE & T and Advocacy (Draft). Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: This discussion document for a CEPD seminar on curriculum looks at articulation in an integrated education and training system and proposes a core curriculum for the academic component of ABE/T and a common curriculum and certification framework for both the academic and the training components and at modularisation, credits and the language of instruction. It also at the role of SETAs, Public Works Programmes and the National Youth Development Forum (NYDF) in ABE/T training, practitioner development, and advocacy involved in the launching of a national AEBT programme. There is a proposal that an ABET Task team be set up as a link with the Ministry of Education and its suggests suitable members.

Keywords: policy, plan, NQF, adult basic education, certification, curriculum, advocacy

CEPD Draft report on proposals for an implementation plan for ABE

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Draft report on proposals for an implementation plan for ABE. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: This early draft of what became the Implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education includes some strategic intervention targets for the first twelve months and plans to set up an information system and plan for large scale delivery, the mounting a campaign to popularise ABE and mobilise resources for it, the linking of ABE with the RDP, the rapid construction of a Department of Adult Basic and Continuing Education and its staffing, setting up the proposed ABE Council, curriculum development, HRD, financing, and legislation, and there are appendices on five years targets and a budget

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, RDP, HRD, governance, curriculum, finance, legislation

CEPD Report of the Implementation Plan task team for ABET

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940509
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Report of the Implementation Plan task team for ABET. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Another draft of the Implementation Plan

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education

CEPD IPET ABE draft

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940321
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD IPET ABE draft. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Looks at Overall planning and policy, Co-ordination of policy implementation through a task force, Identification of strategic interventions over the first 12 months, Information systems, Governance, Delivery, provides a set of organograms on governance and provision structures and their staffing, and a note on linking ABET with the RDP

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, curriculum, HRD, provision, RDP

CEPD An implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education (Draft)

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 199405
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD An implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education (Draft). Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: This partial draft of the Implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education includes the identification of strategic interventions over the first twelve months, putting the necessary bureaucracy in place and an ABE Council, the proposed structures for ABE, and some criteria for the selection of adult education bureaucrats

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, HRD, governance, provision

CEPD An implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940509
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD An implementation Plan for Adult Basic Education. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: This detailed plan comprises the following sections: Building a new ABET Division in the Ministry and new governance structures, Setting Up ABET Units or sections in the National Institute of Curriculum Development, The National Education Media Unit and the South African Qualifications Authority, Establishing Structural Linkages with the Commissions of the RDP and the proposed national structure of Industry Education and Training Boards, suggested Targets for delivery, the implementation of a Human Resources Development Strategy to meet the human resource requirements for large scale ABET Provision, Curriculum and Materials Development, Financing mechanism, Legislation, setting up Transitional mechanisms, and Draft Budget Proposals for 1994/5 and very provisional Budget for the next four Years

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, governance, curriculum, materials, distance education, HRD, NQF, media, provision, finance

CEPD Report of the Implementation Plan task team for ABET

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940509
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Report of the Implementation Plan task team for ABET. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Another draft of the Implemnation Plan

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education

CEPD Proposed structures and strategic interventions for ABET

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940321
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Proposed structures and strategic interventions for ABET. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Describes proposed structure, staffing and functions of a Department (or Directorate) of Adult Basic and Continuing Education and its provincial offices, and of an ABE Council (with represenattion from Government departments (health, rural development, youth, education and training, and overall RDP programme), providers including NGOs, community colleges and tertiary educational institutions, employers, SETAs, Youth Service and mass organisations (unions, women, youth, civics, rural organisations). Also outlines Proposed Strategic Interventions for governance, administration and delivery for ABE from May 1994 - May 1995 (Mounting a campaign to popularise ABE and mobilise resources for ABE at a national and provincial level, Putting the necessary bureaucracy in place, Setting up the ABE Council structures, Training, and Building partnerships, Linking ABE with the Reconstruction and Development Programme, Curriculum and Assessment, Human Resource Development, Financing, a Five year Delivery programme, and Legislation.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, curriculum, HRD, provision, RDP, provision

CEDP Letter from Favish to Samuel re ABE Task team

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940516
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEDP Letter from Favish to Samuel re ABE Task team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Letter from Judy Favish to John Samuel, head of the ANC Education Department, requesting a meeting to discuss the role and composition of the proposed National Team which will assist the National Education Minister, transitional arrangements proposed in the ABE TaskTeam's Implementation Plan for planning the strategic thrusts and future mass provision of ABET, the proposals of the ABE Task Team regarding processes and criteria that could be used for selecting people for the proposed Directorate of Adult Basic and Continuing Education and Training, the status of the existing CEPD ABE Working Group and the Task Team given that several members are currently participating in other forums essentially because of the links with the ANC Education Department's Planning Processes, and the envisaged processes for discussing the proposals contained in the Implementation Plans especially where differences of opinion exist

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, HRD

Letter - unsystematic thoughts on the May 1996 ABET Report

Author: French, E.
Date: 19940517
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Letter - unsystematic thoughts on the May 1996 ABET Report. Johannesburg: Independent Examinations Board

Description: Letter from Edward French at the Independent Examinations Board to Judy Favish of the CEPD expressing approval and critique of many aspects of the proposals and noting some disappointment that the role and structuring of assessment in the new ABET order was given virtually no place and not enough thought given to the sue of existing agencies and of partnerships

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, assessment, NQF, NGOs, partnerships, provision, universities

CEPD Letter to members of the ABE Working Group

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940616
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Letter to members of the ABE Working Group. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Letter reporting completion of the Implementation Plan for Education and Training (IPET) report and clarifying that it is a a discussion document and not an indication of government policy

Keywords: policy, plan

CEPD Draft agenda for HRD Workshop

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940621
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Draft agenda for HRD Workshop. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Agenda with attachments on NQF Qualifications structure for adult educator programmes, an example from the Peninsula Technikon/USWE and a paper by Shirley Walters Work-in-progress on a qualification structure for Education, Training and Development Practitioners by the DEAL Trust.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, practitioners, NQF, universities, NGOs

Preliminary overview of current and future capacity for educator development

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940621
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Preliminary overview of current and future capacity for educator development. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Results of the survey done in March 1994 of the of current and future provision for adult educator development in tertiary institutions and NGOs that covered six main areas: Current and future staffing for adult education and ABE and outreach, Current provisioning (including admission requirements, assessment and accreditation, target groups, mode of tuition, course aims and content), Future provisioning, Research, Coherence, and Tertiary institutions and NGOs. The survey noted the untapped potential existing in historically black universities and technikons, the concerns over indaequate funding, lack of stable career paths and university erected barriers, support for a national strategy for educator development, and some recent strengthening of research and other activities. A copy of the survey questionnaire is included.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult education, adult basic education, universities, NGOs, practitioners, research

CEPD ABET Practitioner Course Workshop programme

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940719-20
Reference: South African Institute of Distance Education. 1994. CEPD ABET Practitioner Course Workshop programme. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Draft programme of a workshop held at the University of South Africa to collaboratively develop a course outline for training ABET practitioners using distance education

Keywords: adult basic education, distance education, universities, materials, certification, practitioners

CEPD & DET Report on Adult Basic Education (ABET) Workshop

Authors: Centre for Education Policy Development and Department of Education and Training
Date: 19940729
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Report on Adult Basic Education (ABET) Workshop. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: This record of a joint meeting of the CEPD ABE Task team and the Adult Education section of the Department of Education and Training includes notes on the discussions in three commissions (Curriculum, HRD, and Governance), and reports on adult education provision in Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, and Venda. The appendices include a document on adult education from the DET, a report from the North West province, a CEPD documents on HRD and Towards an adult educator qualifications framework, an attendance register, an organogram from Natal, and a list of members of the Project Task Group on ABE from Natal.

Keywords: policy, plan. adult basic education, adult education, training, provision, governance, curriculum, HRD

CEPD Draft programme for PWV ABET Workshop

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940802-04
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Draft programme for PWV ABET Workshop. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Workshop plan

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, training

Curriculum model for a Certificate programme

Author: McKay, V.I.
Date: 199408
Reference: McKay, V.I. 1994. Curriculum model for a Certificate programme. Pretoria: University of South Africa

Description: Outlines components of a one year Certificate programme

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, practitioners, curriculum, universities

A Distance education course for ABET practitioners Proposal Draft

Author: South African Institute of Distance Education
Date: 199408
Reference: South African Institute of Distance Education. 1994. A Distance education course for ABET practitioners Proposal Draft 0. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Distance Education

Description: A proposal for collaborative distance education course development that lists the potential collaborators, proposes a 'collaborative secretariat', and outlines a curriculum, development timetable and a costing template

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, practitioners, curriculum, universities, distance education

Letter from SAIDE re request for Certificate Course development

Author: South African Institute of Distance Education
Date: 19940808
Reference: South African Institute of Distance Education. 1994. Letter from SAIDE re request for Certificate Course development. Braamfontein: South African Institute of Distance Education

Description: Siven Maslamoney of SAIDE requests clarification meeting on request to manage the development of a Certificate level course taught by distance.

Keywords: adult basic education, distance education, universities, materials, certification, practitioners

Notes from a meeting of a third of the Task Team

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940811
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Notes from a meeting of a third of the Task Team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Meeting discussed a proposal from RDP minister about a literacy campaign to be run by NGOs and managed by Kagiso Trust, the organising of a stakeholder conference, the planning of the PWV and OFS conference and workshop and for SAIDE to be the collaborative secretariat for the Certoficate course development.

Keywords: literacy, conferences, adult basic education, distance education, universities, materials, certification, practitioners

Launching a national adult basic education and training programme

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940901
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Launching a national adult basic education and training programme. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Outlines the strategic tasks to be accomplished by December 1994: build a strong ABET division in the Ministry of Education and Training, set up new governance and stakeholder structures for ABET in 1994, work with the provinces in building capacity for ABET provision, further develop curriculum policy (particulary in relation to norms, standards and assessment), develop human resources development capacity for ABET leadership and practitioners, plan the launch of programmes in early 1995, secure funding for the planning and implementation of ABET, and set up a national ABET task team

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, provision, curriculum, HRD, practitioners, finance

CEPD Background documentation for PWV conference on ABE

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940902
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Background documentation for PWV conference on ABE. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Some of the Background documentation provided by the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal with Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging (PWV) statistics on provision of adult education and general demographic statistics

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, provision

CEPD Report on the recommendations from the PWV ABET conference held from 2-4 September 1994

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19940902-04
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD Report on the recommendations from the PWV ABET conference held from 2-4 September 1994. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Provides recommendations on Governance, Strategic thrusts, Management Information Systems, Curriculum and Assessment, Human Resource Development, Advocacy, on the composition and brief of the National ABET Task Team and some evaluative comments on the conference itself

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, provision, MIS, curriculum, assessment, HRD, advocacy

DEAL Trust: 1994

DEAL Trust documents - 1994

Author: DEAL Trust (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 1994
Reference: DEAL Trust. 1994. Johannesburg: DEAL Tust

Description: The Disseminating Expertise for Adult Literacy (DEAL) Trust was a joint venture of four university-based adult education departments or units to assist Adult Basic Education programmes in their work and dissemination of their work nationally and to raise funds. The four participants were the following:

ZENEX Adult Literacy and Basic Information and Policy facility of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Adult Basic Education programme of the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal,
Adult Basic Education and Development programmeof the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Cape Town,
Adult Basic Education Training, Research and Outreach Programme of the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of the Western-Cape.
Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, continuing education, second language education, provision, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

The formation of the Trust was prompted by a potential funder, USAID, wanting the funds to be routed through a consortium of universities involve in ABE support.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, provision, universities, research, finance, policy, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

1994 Towards an adult educator qualifications framework
1994 DEAL Application for funding from CAE for October 1994 to September 1996
1994 DEAL Application to USAID for funding from 1995
1994 DEAL Evaluation brief material
1994 DEAL Request to USAID for no cost extension - follow up
199401 DEAL Statement of available funds
199406 DEAL Exploring the notion of ETDP (Cooper)
199410 DEAL Planning grant proposal presented via Universities Standing Committee on ABET
199410 DEAL Professional Preparation and Qualification
1994621 DEAL Letter from Mehl at IDT to Walters
19940131 DEAL Statement to auditors
19940202 DEAL Amendment to USAID grant agreement
19940206 DEAL Report on Consultative Forum
1994027 DEAL Notes on teleconference of 21 January1994 with Aitchison notes
19940212 DEAL Agenda for Trustees meeting
19940212 DEAL Minutes of Trustees meeting
19940322 DEAL Consultative Forum programme
19940322 DEAL Evaluation TOR draft
19940323 DEAL Minutes of Board meeting
19940426 DEAL Research meeting
19940600 DEAL National Accreditation Programme Notion of ETDP (Cooper)
19940601 DEAL Proposal to train adult educators via DEAL Trust
19940601 DEAL Teleconference notes
19940615-16 DEAL Accreditation programme Meeting of participating departments
19940621 DEAL Agenda for Board meeting
19940621 DEAL Finance report to Board meeting
19940621 DEAL Memo re Geoffrey Mokale's resignation tabled at Board meeting
19940621 DEAL Minutes of Board meeting
19940621 DEAL Scope of report document tabled at Board meeting
19940804 DEAL USAID letter to Aitchison
19941114 DEAL Agenda for trustees meeting
19941128 DEAL Prinsloo (UCT) Letter to DEAL
19941128 DEAL Minutes of Trustees meeting

Electronic Media in Education national conference: 19940122-23

EMEF Letter to delegates, Draft programme and annexures

Author: Electronic Media in Education Forum
Date: 19940117
Reference: Electronic Media in Education Forum. 1994. EMEF Letter to delegates, Draft programme and annexures. Braamfontein: Electronic Media in Education Forum

Description: Comprises the letter to delegates from Nicola Galombik, Electronic Media in Education National Co-ordinator, a detailed draft programme for the conference, a lengthy discussion paper on "The use of broadcast and non-broadcast electronic media in South Africa's restructured education and ttaining system" prepared by the EME Forum and the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE) in late 1993 and including an appendix 2 by Neil Butcher of SAIDE on "Training people in the use and production of educational electronic media materials", an Electronic Media in Education Forum National Co-ordinators report for July-December 1993, a set of Recommendations to the SABC Board and the IBA, and a set of draft resolutions for the national conference

Keywords: policy, plan, conferences, media, television, adult education, adult basic education, distance education

National Conference on Electronic Media in Adult Basic Education and Training: 19940122-23

EME Invitation letter and conference documentation

Author: Electronic Media in Education Forum
Date: 19940117
Reference: Electronic Media in Education Forum. 1993. EME Invitation letter and conference documentation. Johannesburg: Electronic Media in Education Forum

Description: Invitation letter from EME National Coordinator, Nicola Galombik, a draft programme including questions for four commisisons yo discuss, and a January 1994 discussion document "The use of broadcast and non-broadcast electronic media in South Africa's restructured education and training system"based on a policy study conducted by the South African Institute for Distance Education

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, distance education, conferences

Electronic Media in Education national conference programme cover

Author: Electronic Media in Education Forum
Date: 19940122-23
Reference: Electronic Media in Education Forum. 1993. Electronic Media in Education national conference programme cover. Johannesburg: Electronic Media in Education Forum

Description: Programme cover

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

National Conference on the Role of the Broadcast Media in Adult Basic Education and Training: 19941013-14

CEPD ABET Task team memo on The role of Electronic Media in ABET conference

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941006
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD ABET Task team memo on The role of Electronic Media in ABET conference. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description:

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, media, tekevision, conferences

CEPD ABET Task Team plan for The Role of Media in ABET conference

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941006
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. CEPD ABET Task Team plan for The Role of Media in ABET conference. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description:

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference Programme

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference Programme. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: The programme of the conference on "The Role of the Electronic media in ABET" planned by the Centre for Education Policy Development (CEPD), the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE), the Electronic Media in Education (EME) Forum, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and the National Literacy Co-operation (NLC).

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference papers

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference papers. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Includes the Opening address by the Minister of Education, Professor S.M. Bengu, Welcome address by Chairperson of the Education Committee of the SABC Board, professor A.J. Thembela, a paper "Educational Broadcasting: new realities" by David Seligman, and another paper "The adult basic education and traing (ABET) policy framework" by John Aitchison

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences, history

The Role of Broadcast Media in ABET

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. The Role of Broadcast Media in ABET. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Composite paper incorporating an introduction, a revision of "The adult basic education and training (ABET) policy framework" by John Aitchison, Guiding principles for Media in ABET drawing on the SAIDE/EME Policy Framework, Stakeholder participation, capacity building and institutional implications, Recommendations on advocacy, and an Overview of SABC educatiobnal programmes

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences, history, advocacy

Some notes on conference presentations

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Some notes on conference presentations. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Notes on presentations

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

Briefing notes for Group 1: An advocacy action plan

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Briefing notes for Group 1: An advocacy action plan. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Briefing notes that include Aims/Focus, Target groups, Activities, and Information about provision,

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, advocacy, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

The Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference : Draft Summary

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994.The Role of Broadcast Media in ABET conference: Draft Summary. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Draft summary

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

Minutes of the SABC/ABE Conference

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941013-14
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1993. Minutes of the SABC/ABE Conference. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes that include summaries of presentations

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, media, television, conferences

Human Resource Development in Reconstruction and Development Programme International Donor Conference: 19941026-28

HRD in RDP International Donor Conference draft programme

Author: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference
Date: 19941026-28
Reference: Human Resource Development in Reconstruction and Development Programme International Donor Conference. 1994. Human Resource Development in Reconstruction and Development Programme International Donor Conference: Draft Programme. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: Programme of a high level conference with high level presenters

Keywords: development, finance, donors, RDP, HRD

Address by Roelf Meyer

Author: Meyer, R.P.
Date: 19941027
Reference: Meyer, R.P. 1993. Address by Roelf Meyer. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: Address by the Minister of Provincial Affairs and Constitutional Development that notes the importance of local government in implemting developmentbut only mention education once - voter education

Keywords: development, voter education, donors, RDP, HRD

Decision-making and Human Resources Development: A guiding framework

Author: Molobi, E.
Date: 19941027
Reference: Molobi, E. 1994. Decision-making and Human Resources Development: A guiding framework. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: Address by Eric Molobi, the Director of the Kagiso Trust on decision making that argues for a genuine joint decision making process involving the state, private sector, donors and NGOs, notes the importance of monitoring and evaluation, criticizes the current approach to educatiuon and training, and argues for an output orientated results-driven approach to programme development and project management.

Keywords: development, donors, RDP, HRD, monitoring and evaluation, history

Capacity building

Author: September, C.
Date: 19941027
Reference: September, C. 1994. Capacity building. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: The address by Connie September, the second vice-president of COSATU, was based on this COSATU draft for discussion on capacity building that discusses principles, components, and the areas requiring capacity building (the public sector, the local government transition, community based organizations, trades unions, small and medium enterprises, education and training system and providers (NQF, adult basic education, bridging programmes, vocational and career guidance, practitioners)).

Keywords: development, donors, RDP, HRD, adult basic education, TVET, NQF, practitioners

Human Resource Development in the South African Public Service

Author: Nkomo, S.
Date: 19941027
Reference: Nkomo, S. 1993. Human Resource Development in the South African Public Service. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: Address by Sibusiso Nkomo from the Public Service Commission, describes the new situation with the new Public Service Act of 1994 nd the workof the Public Service Training Institute but makes no mention of adult education or the need for aduklt basic education for poorly educated state employees

Keywords: development, donors, RDP, HRD, training

Quality Human Resource Development for South Africa

Author: Bird, A.
Date: 19941027
Reference: Bird, A. 1993. Quality Human Resource Development for South Africa. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: The address by Adrienne Bird, the COSATU representative to the National Training Board second vice-president of COSATU, was based on this draft for discussion. It argues for partnerships to support transformation in a planned, co-ordinated and visible way. It also proposes that prospective donors consider their support for developments and initiatives according to the extent to which the proposals contribute to quality human resource development within RDP priorities, aid the development of a sustainable enabling environment, and be within the framework of Southern African regional co-operation and development. The document includes suggestions about adult basic education.

Keywords: development, training, RDP, HRD, donors, NQF

The Role of Private Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Human Resource Development

Author: Mbeki, Z.
Date: 19941017
Reference: Mbeki, Z. 1994.The Role of Private Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Human Resource Development. Cape Town: HRD in RDP International Donor Conference

Description: Paper presented by Zanele Mbeki that states that it will be through the continued financial support of donors that Private Organisations and NGOs have and will continue to be partners in the RDP but notes criticisms that they will become irrelevant but rejects these criticisms.

Keywords: development, donors, RDP, HRD, NGOs, history

National ABET Task Team: 1994

Proposal to establish an Advisory Committee and a Task Group on ABET

Author: SACHED Trust
Date: 199410
Reference: SACHED Trust. 1994. Proposal to establish an Advisory Committee and a Task Group on ABET. Johannesburg: SACHED Trust

Description: Proposal to establish an advisory committee and a task team on ABET tp present a programme for action for 1995 by mid-January 1995

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Letter from Minister of Education and Training to Samuels re ABET Advisory Committee and Task Team

Author: Bhengu, S.M.
Date: 19941014
Reference: Bhengu, S.M. 1993. Letter from Minister of Education and Training to Samuels re ABET Advisory Committee and Task Team. Pretoria: Ministry of Education and Training

Description: Requests John Samuel to head Advisory Committee on ABET and establish Task team as part of RDP-sponsored "lead projects" announced by the President on the 18th August 1994 and encloses Terms of Reference for the Committee (which are the same as the SACHED proposal of October

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Letter from Mthewcu to Favish

Author: Mthwecu, M.
Date: 19941021
Reference: Mthwecu, M. 1993. Letter from Mthewcu to Favish. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Menzi Mthwecu provides some ideas on the structuring and tasking of the National ABET Task team

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance,curriculum, assessment, training, development, HRD, finance, provision, advocacy

List of possible National ABET Task Team members

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941028
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. List of possible National ABET Task Team members. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: List

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Report of Provisional National ABET Task Team

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19941029
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1994. Report of Provisional National ABET Task Team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Provide background to the set up of the Task Team, attendance at the meeting on 29 October 1994, its proposed functions, issues requiring further discussion with the Minister of Education, summary of provincial audit of ABET structures, proposal for a national consultative ABET workshop to be held in December 1994, a proposal for a national workshop with state adult education personal to bebheld in late November 1994, a proposal for particular topic workshops in the first quarter of 1995, mounting a campaign to popularise ABET, and a national conference on ABET to be held in April 1995, a business plan for a national ABET programme, a budget for the ABET IPET Plan programme for April 1995 to February 1996, and a time plan of action for the ABET Task team

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, provision, finance, curriculum

Aitchison notes on meeting of National ABET Task Team

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19941029
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. Aitchison notes on meeting of National ABET Task Team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Notes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, provision, finance, curriculum

Letter from Favish to National ABET Task team members

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941107
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development. 1994. Letter from Favish to National ABET Task team members. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Discusses planning for a national workshop with the meeting with the representitives of all the provincial ABET task teams/commissions/councils, etc.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Samuel to Minister of Education

Author: Samuel, J.
Date: 19941108
Reference: Samuel, J. 1994. Samuel to Minister of Education. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: John Samuel, head of the National Task Team, requests clarity on several administrative issues and includes a copy of the Report of Provisional National ABET Task Team of 29 October 1994

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Memo on National ABET Task Team meeting

Author: Centre for Education Policy Development
Date: 19941111
Reference: Centre for Education Policy Development . 1994. Memo on National ABET Task Team meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Administrative arrangements that includes list of Task Team members

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance

Minutes of National ABET Task Team meeting

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19941114-15
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1994. Minutes of National ABET Task Team meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Aitchison notes of meeting of National ABET Task Team

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19941114-15
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. Aitchison notes of meeting of National ABET Task Team. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Notes on the meeting

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan

Concrete objectives for the period December 1994 - April 1995

Author: Kerfoot, C.
Date: 19941114-15
Reference: Kerfoot, C. 1994. Kerfoot curriculum related notes on Concrete objectives for the period December 1994 - April 1995. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Plan for achieving objectives related to generic outcomes and associated core content, standards setting processes, and for getting new materials for learners

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, curriculum, standards

Invitation to National Consultative Meeting on 9-10 December 1994

Author: Samuel, J.
Date: 19941118
Reference: Samuel, J. 1994. Invitation to National Consultative Meeting on 9-10 December 1994. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Invitation from the Convenor of the National ABET Task team describes the National ABET Task Team and that provinces are asked to send up to 9 representives to the consultation and a single national representative each from a range of bodies and mentions the enclosure of Briefing/Working papers on Governance, Advocacy, Curriculum, Human Resource Development (training of management and practitioners), Finance, Planning and Implementation of new programmes and strategic thrusts, and the linkage of ABE and the training sector.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, advocacy, curriculum, HRD, finance, training, provision, conferences

Comments criticising section of the Report of the Provinsional ABET Task team of 29 October 1994

Author: Shepherd, D.R.
Date: 19941122
Reference: Shepherd, D.R. 1994. Comments criticising section of the Report of the Provinsional ABET Task team of 29 October 1994. Johannesburg: YYY

Description: Criticises misleading information in the section of the report on Summary of Provincial Audit of ABET structures: Western Cape

Keywords: adult basic education, Western Cape, governance

ABET National Task Team - consultation papers

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19941124
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1994. ABET National Task Team - consultation papers. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Covering letter list consultation Commission discussion papers: Advocacy, Curriculum, Strategic Thrusts, Human Resource Development, Financing, Linking Adult Basic Education and Training [not attached], Governance, and a template of questions and discussion issues for provincial reports

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, advocacy, curriculum, provision, HRD, finance, training, governance, conferences

Commission on financing: Paper for presentation to Consultative Conference of Provincial MECs

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19941209-10
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1994. Commission on financing: Paper for presentation to Consultative Conference of Provincial MECs. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: The paper poses a number of questions related to the provision and financing of ABE in the provinces and recommends immediates guidelines being developed about educator training, materials, stakeholder participation and advocacy and that the Task Team developes a research proposal on ways of financing through levies, incentives, local taxes and user charges. It also provides guidelines on governance.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, finance, governance

KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET: 1994

KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET documents - 1994

Author: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 19940804-1109
Reference: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET. 1994. Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET

Description: The KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET was set up to assist in the merger of adult education/adult basic education structures and programmes in the five previously separate education departments working in the province. It included departmental, university, NGO and teacher union representatives.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, provision, universities, NGOs, unions, governance, materials, partnerships, KwaZulu-Natal

Western Cape Task Team - Adult Education: 1994

Western Cape Task Team report - Adult Education

Author: Western Cape Task Team - Adult Education
Date: 19941116
Reference: Western Cape Task Team - Adult Education. 1994. Task Team report: Adult Education. Cape Town: Province of the Western Cape

Description: Describes the membership and brief of the Task Team, looks at ABET, Adult Continuing Education and Training (up to Grade 12) and non-formal adult education and training, argues that adult education should not be seen as coterminus with compulsory schooling, that education and trainig should be integrated, a Directorate of Adult Education and Training should be established, and outlines proposed structures, provision and policies

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, non-formal education, continuing education, literacy, policy, plan, provision, practitioners, training, finance, universities, NGOs, unions, governance, materials, partnerships, Western Cape

South African Committee on Adult Basic Education: 1994

Proposal for setting up regional structures of SACABE

Author: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education
Date: 19940114
Reference: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education . 1994. Proposal for setting up regional structures of SACABE. Braamfontein: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education

Description: A letter from Kumi Naidoo on a National Literacy Cooperation letterhead on behalf of the Interim Executive Committee of SACABE with a task schedule for work on setting up regional structures and asking for comments

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, NGOs

A Generic proposal for the establishment of Community Learning Centres for the delivery of Adult Basic Education and Training

Author: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education (Western Cape)
Date: 199411
Reference: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education (Western Cape). 1994. A Generic proposal for the establishment of Community Learning Centres for the delivery of Adult Basic Education and Training. Cape Town: South African Committee on Adult Basic Education (Western Cape)

Description: Sets out the goals of a CLC, discusses target groups, the use of existing sites, advocates a community driven model and partnerships with NGOs, describes a possible management structure and financing, and provides six appendices on curriculum, materials, Western Cape providers, vocational guidance and counselling, Governance Training, and Training of Trainers providers

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, CLCs, NGOs, governance, finance, Western Cape, training, practitioners

Adult Basic Education in South Africa. A strategy for Implementation

Author: Bhola, H.
Date: 1994
Reference: Bhola, H. 1994. Adult Basic Education in South Africa. A strategy for Implementation. Indiana, United States of America: Indiana University

Description: a brief outline of the elements of conceptualising a strategic plan for the Management and Field delivery of ABE

Keywords: adult basic education, implementation, plan, provision, programme, practitioners

Adult Basic Education and Training

Author: African National Congress
Date: 1994
Reference: African National Congress. 1994. Adult Basic Education and Training. Johannesburg: African National Congress

Description: An earlier version of Section 18 in the A policy Framework for Education and Training published in 1995.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, curriculum, provision, implementation, NGOs, finance, qualifications, governance

Research Proposal

Authors: University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape
Date: 1994
Reference: University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape. 1994. Research Proposal. Rondebosch and Bellville: University of Cape Town Department of Adult Education and University of the Western Cape Centre for Continuing Education

Description: Section 2 to 4 of a joint research proposal directed to the Joint Education Trust that looks at the potential learners in order to develop learner profiles to aid practioner training and curriculum development

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, curriculum, practitioners, training, ETDP, outcomes, NQF, provision, implementation

Guide to Developing and Accrediting Non-formal Training Courses for Early Childhood Educators

Author: Short, A.
Date: 1994
Reference: Short, A. 1994. Guide to Developing and Accrediting Non-formal Training Courses for Early Childhood Educators. Third edition. Pretoria: Southern African Association for Early Childhood Educare

Description: Comprehensive guide to assist educare training agencies in developing good non-formal training programmes and to providfe a framework for accrediting non-formal training courses thyrough a process of self evaluation

Keywords: policy, plan, accreditation, qualifications, training, curriculum, non-formal education, evaluation

Funding post-compulsory pre-tertiary education and training

Author: Macro-Educational Policy Unit, University of Durban - Westville
Date: 1994
Reference: Macro-Educational Policy Unit University of Durban - Westville. 1994. Funding post-compulsory pre-tertiary education and training. Durban: Macro-Educational Policy Unit, University of Durban - Westville

Description: A policy research proposal to the Ford Foundation

Keywords: policy, finance, universities, research

Programme of Action 1994 - 1998

Author: Ministry of Labour
Date: 1994
Reference: Ministry of Labour. 1994. Programme of Action 1994 - 1998. Pretoria: Ministry of Labour

Description: Includes mentions of an integrated approach to education and training, adult basic education, distance education, the NQF, vocational (career) counselling, worker education and general adult education

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, distance education, the NQF, career guidance, worker education and general adult education

Process for setting standards

Author: Department of Manpower working group
Date: 1994
Reference: Department of Manpower Working Group. 1994. Process for setting standards. Pretoria: Department of Manpower

Description: General steps for standards setting and specifically for ABET

Keywords: standards, NQF, adult basic education, distance education, NQF, vocational (career) counselling, worker education, adult education

National Qualifications Framework Pilot Project

Author: Department of Manpower Working Group
Date: 1994
Reference: Department of Manpower Working Group. 1994. National Qualifications Framework Pilot Project. Pretoria: Department of Manpower

Description: NQF pilot project description

Keywords: NQF, research, standards, qualifications

Notes and mission statement from the inaugural conference of the Adult Education and Trainers Association of South Africa (AETASA)

Author: Adult Education and Trainers Association of South Africa
Date: 1994
Reference: Adult Education and Trainers Association of South Africa. 1994. Notes and mission statement from the inaugural conference of the Adult Education and Trainers Association of South Africa (AETASA). Johannesburg: Adult Education and Trainers Association of South Africa

Description: Discussion group notes from the conference, a draft mission statement, and a transparency from John Aitchison in his summing up address

Keywords: adult education, practitioners, trainers, policy, plan

A Policy Framework for Education and Training (draft)

Author: African National Congress
Date: 199401
Reference: African National Congress. 1994. Policy Framework for Education and Training (draft). Braamfontein: African National Congress, Education Department

Description: A policy document draft for discussion that includes a section on Adult Basic Education and Trainingand is very similar to the final policy document, A policy Framework for Education and Training, published in 1995.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, training, provision, qualifications, certification, curriculum, governance

The role of business in education and training in South Africa in the 1990s: a training perspective

Author: Business Management Institute
Date: 199402
Reference: Business Management Institute. 1994. The role of business in education and training in South Africa in the 1990s: a training perspective. Rivonia: Business Management Institute

Description: Detailed and comprehensive document describing the education and training situation and its funding in South Africa, government's and other sectors' participation in education, including adult basic education and literacy, and training, and the key issues related to the training of management at all levels

Keywords: training, adult basic education, literacy, governance, management, plans, policy, finance

Summary of the documents on the relationship between adult basic education and the reconstruction and development programme

Authors: Unknown
Date: 19940309
Reference: Unknown. 1994. Summary of the documents on the relationship between adult basic education and the reconstruction and development programme.

Description: Summarises documents on social infrastructure development and education and training, on econmic policy and science and technology (S&T) development, equality for women, the influence of donor conditionalities on adult basic education, critiques a narrow 'economy driven' approaches to education an training and examines the relationship between the Reconstruction and Development programme and the Government of National Unity

Keywords: adult basic education, development, policy, plan, HRD, ideology

Adult Basic Education and the Reconstruction and Development Programme: a source document

Author: Motala, E. and Maharaj, R.
Date: 19940321
Reference: Motala, E. and Maharaj, R. 1994. Adult Basic Education and the Reconstruction and Development Programme: a source document. Johannesburg: ANC ABE Task Force

Description: Summarises documents and discussions at various national and regional negotiating forums related to education and training (and human resource development) in general, and adult basic education in particular and women's role in society

Keywords: policy, adult basic education, RDP, seideology

EPU Summary of ANC Draft Policy Framework for Education and Training

Author: Education Policy Unit
Date: 199404
Reference: Education Policy Unit. 1994. EPU Summary of ANC Draft Policy Framework for Education and Training. Braamfontein: University of the Witwatersrand, Education Policy Unit, and National Education Crisis Committee

Description: Summarises the key policy initiatives, the goals, commitments and tasks, the proposed new structures and sources of finance, the policies for teachers, resources, curriculum, and for special sectors, including adult basic education

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, training, provision, qualifications, certification, curriculum, governance

Proposed initial powers and functions of national ministers

Author: African National Congress
Date: 19940502
Reference: African National Congress. 1994. Proposed initial powers and functions of national ministers. Johannesburg: African National Congress National Working Committee Subcommittee on transition

Description: Memorandum outlining the powers and functions of natiomnal ministers and provincial MECs in the post-apartheid administration (pages 4 and 5 missing)

Keywords: governance

A Framework for the provision of Adult Basic and Further Education. Discussion document

Author: National Investigation into Community Education
Date: 19940615
Reference: National Investigation into Community Education. 1994. A Framework for the provision of Adult Basic and Further Education. Discussion document. 2nd Draft. Braamfontein: National Investigation into Community Education

Description: The result of six working groups (Situation analysis, Philosophy and concept, System Co-ordination, Acreditation and Articulation, Policy initiatives, Financing mechanism) set up at a National Consultative Meeting on Community Colleges in October 1992 the document provides a comprehensive set of proposals related to Target Groups, Clarification of Concepts, Vision and Principles, Delivery Institutions, Governance and Administration, Access and Articulation, Assessment and Accreditation, a Review of Technical Colleges, and a Short-term Plan.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, adult further education, provision, governance, assessment, accreditation

Formalising our courses and implications for changing learner roles

Author: Gamble, J.
Date: 19940614
Reference: Gamble, J. 1994. Formalising our courses and implications for changing learner roles. Rondebosch: Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies, University of Cape Town

Description: Philosophical exploration of non-formal and formal education and training, on acquisition compared to intentional learning in the context of the move to formalise adult educator qualifications at the University of Cape Town

Keywords: adult education, universities, curriculum, certification, practitioners, NQF, ETDP, non-formal education

Covering letter to "A Framework for the provision of Adult Basic and Further Education"

Author: National Investigation into Community Education
Date: 19940615
Reference: National Investigation into Community Education. 1994. Covering letter to "A Framework for the provision of Adult Basic and Further Education". Braamfontein: National Investigation into Community Education

Description: Covering letter for distribution of the 2nd draft of the document with a request for comments

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, adult further education, provision, governance, assessment, accreditation

Literacy waits for the new dawn

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19940718
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1994. Literacy waits for the new dawn. Cape Librarian

Description: Description and discussion on the developments in adult literacy and basic education policy, plans and implementation since the 1970s

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, policy, ideology, history, research, plan, provision, NGOs, universities

Notes on an intial meeting of the Education, Training and Development Practitioner project

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19940728
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W.. 1994. Notes on an intial meeting of the Education, Training and Development Practitioner project.

Description: Notes of a meeting in which the background to, purposes and problems to be addressed by, the project are outlined, including exploring the concept of professionalism, the shift in the concept of 'trainer' to 'ETDP', avoiding a too specific and reductionist model of the practitioner,

Keywords: ETDP, NQF, trainers, practitioners

NLC capacity-building programme

Author: National Literacy Co-operation
Date: 19940808-10
Reference: National Literacy Co-operation. 1994. NLC capacity-building programme. Johannesburg: National Literacy Co-operation

Description: Outline of the programme for developing a Human Resource Development strategy for the National Literacy Co-operation

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, trainers, practitioners, ETDP, plan, curriculum

RDP White Paper. Discussion Document

Author: Government of National Unity
Date: 199409
Reference: Government of National Unity. 1994. RDP White Paper. Discussion Document. Cape Town: Government of National Unity

Description: The White Paper provides a description of the Reconstruction and Development Policy, why it is needed, its six basic principles, its programmes, and outlines the economic policy framework, fiscal policy and the budget, public sector restructuring, and various consultative processes to be engaged in. It was of course a document heavily influenced by the African National Congress' The Reconstruction and Development Programme: a policy framework published earlier in the year.

Keywords: policy, plan, development

Draft White Paper on Education and Training

Author: Government of National Unity
Date: 19940923
Reference: Government of National Unity. 1994. Draft White Paper on Education and Training. Goverment Gazette, Number 15974, 23 September 1994

Description: Although the document mentions that the government's human resource development programme includes the launching of a national Adult Basic Education programme it sees this programme as relying on new funding partnerships via the RDP programme. These partnerships are expected to undertake planning, arrange public advocacy, sponsor research and development, and mobilise financial resources for the programme, which can use existing facilities rather than requiring new infrastructure for Community Learning Centres. A representative national ABET Council is expected to be established as the authoritative voice of the field, and to advise the Minister. Adult Basic Education is seen as a developmental initiative required because basic education is a right, It proposes a General certificate of Education (GCE) at the end of 9 years of formal schooling and at the end of the Adult Basic Education and Training phase, comprising three sub-levels. It also envisages support for slef study.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, certification, practitioners, distance education, RDP, finance, NGOs

A development-driven framework for the ABET Curriculum. Discussion document

Author: National Literacy Co-operation (Curriculum and Materials Development Unit)
Date: 199410
Reference: National Literacy Co-operation. 1994. A development-driven framework for the ABET Curriculum. Discussion document. Cape Town: USWE

Description: A curriculum proposal aligned to proposals negotiated and agreed upon by COSATU, SACABE, the National Training Board, the National Literacy Co-operation and other key stakeholders, that, after examining current developments and research, particularly with reference to the RDP and the need to build the economy, proposes that the domain of Development Studies should form the overarching framework for the curriculum, and in particular for the core subject areas of Social Studies and Science and Technology using the apparatus of terminology and processes of the National Qualifications Framework

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, curriculum, development, NQF, standards, outcomes

Integrating Adult Education and Training: Possibilities and constraints. Report of a colloquium: 21 - 22 October 1994

Author: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education
Date: 19941021-22
Reference: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education. 1994. Integrating Adult Education & Training: Possibilities & constraints. Report of a colloquium: 21 - 22 October 1994. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape

Description: The report includes summaries of presentations by a number of scholars and adult education activists on the changing adult education policy situation, issues on governance and financing, international perspectives on lifelong education, key issues identified, the ETDP concept, and conclusions on the integration of adult education and training. There are also a useful chronology of policy development and a glossary of organisation acronyms and initialisms.

Keywords: adult education, universities, policy, curriculum, governance, finance, competency, outcomes, NQF

Decentralisation of Education: International experience and its lessons for South Africa

Author: Karlsson, J.
Date: 199411
Reference: Karlsson, J. 1994. Decentralisation of Education: International experience and its lessons for South Africa. Education Monitor, Volume 5, Number 2, November 1994

Description: Discusses concepts and issues of centralisation and decentralisation in education with many examples from other countries and draws no firm conclusion about applicability in South Africa post-apartheid

Keywords: adult basic education, research, policy, finance

Fax from Marks to Lehoko and Sheppey re research funding through the HSRC

Author: Marks, G.
Date: 19941116
Reference: Marks, G.. 1994. Fax from Marks to Lehoko and Sheppey re research funding through the HSRC. Johannesburg: National Literacy Co-operation

Description: Proposes, on the basis of a discussion with the Human Sciences Research Council's Department of Education that USWE (which was having difficulty raising funds) and the National Literacy Co-operation do research on the professionalistion of adult basic education facilitators and on the national ABET curriculum framework

Keywords: adult basic education, practitioners, curriculum, finance, research, NGOs

Letter from Lugg to Samuel re proposed conference on ABET

Author: Lugg, R.
Date: 19941118
Reference: Lugg, R. 1994. Letter from Lugg to Samuel re proposed conference on ABET. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

Description: A proposal to John Samuel, Convenor of the National task team on ABET, for a national conference organised by significant stakeholders (and to be largely funded by them) in the field on the implementation of ABET

Keywords: adult basic education, research, policy, finance

White paper on Reconstruction and Development

Author: Government of National Unity
Date: 19941123
Reference: Government of National Unity. 1994. White paper on Reconstruction and Development, Goverment Gazette, Volume 353, Number 16085, 23 November 1994

Description: The White Paper devotes little attention to literacy or adult basic education though it states that a coherent human resource development policy will be developed to focus on skill acquisition and adult basic education for the incumbent workforce and those who have been deprived of basic schooling and the one HRD programme listed, a National Literacy Programme, will be launched in January 1995, the four year initiative will have no RDP funding at all, it will be donor funded until 1997.

Keywords: policy, plan, development, adult basic education, finance, RDP

1995

National ABET Task Team: 1995

Notice of Task Team Meeting

Author: Samuel, J.
Date: 19950113
Reference: Samuel, J. 1995. Notice of Task Team meeting. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Notice of meeting with proposed agenda

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning

Minutes from National ABET Task Team held on 18th January 1995

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19950118
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1995. Minutes from National ABET Task Team held on 18th January 1995. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning, MIS, Eastern Cape, youth

National ABET Consultative conference documents: 26-27 January 1995

Author: National ABET Consultative conference (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 19950126-27
Reference: National ABET Consultative conference. 1992. Pretoria: Ministry of Education Adult Basic Education Task Group

Description: Planned to examine the interaction between the National Ministry and provincial ABET structures, the consultation was called by the Ministry of Education Adult Basic Education Task Group and invited nine representatives selected by the MEC for education in each province in consultation with whatever provincial Task Team, Project Task Group or other structure already exists dealing with ABET and which should include the Chairperson of Provincial Task Group on ABET, current heads of Adult Education Divisions within existing education departments active in the province, persons representing NGOs or the private sector from the Provincial Task Group, and persons from the Provincial Task Group or from appropriate institutions who are likely to play a leadership role in any of the specialised areas of ABET. In addition, at the National level, representatives from other ministerial, organisational or sectoral areas were invited including the Ministries of Labour, the Reconstruction and Development Ofiice, South African Council for ABE, the National Literacy Co-operation, South African Literacy and Adult Education Association, PRISEC, and the Association of Adult Educators and Trainers of South Africa and a number of tertiary training institutions.

The consequences of the Consultation were dire, the national ABET Task Team appointed by the Minister of Education in September 1994 was destroyed by political machinations that organised a virtual coup d’ état that saw experienced policy makers and planners kicked out and replaced by provincial education department representatives who knew very little about ABET policy or practice.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, finance, conferences

Adult Basic Education proposal

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 199501
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1993. Adult Basic Education proposal. Johannesburg: Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Draft plan with sections of advocacy, provision, MIS, and pilot provision programmes in the Eastern Cape and for youth involvment

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning, advocacy, provision, MIS, youth, Eastern Cape

Invitation to National ABET Curriculum Workshop 13-15 March 1995

Author: National ABET Task Team (Martin Sebakwane)
Date: 199502
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1995. Invitation to the National ABET Curriculum Workshop for Setting minimum Interim Guidelines and Standards. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Provides objectives for the workshop and outlines the procedure for running preliminary provincial stakeholder workshops and selecting six delegates from each province

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning, advocacy, provision, conferences

Documentation for National ABET Curriculum Workshop 13-15 March 1995

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 19950313-15
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1995. Documentation for National ABET Curriculum Workshop 13-15 March 1995. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Apart from the programme, provides a compendium of National ABET Task Team documents including the names of the reconstituted membership of the National ABET Task Team, suggested questions for discussion, conference objectives, an Advocacy document, recommendations for a stakeholder body as a sub-structure of the Provincial Education and Training Forum, recommendations on strategic thrusts, recommendations on MIS, recommendations on the curriculum, recommendations on HRD, recommendations on advocacy, and general recommendations

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning, advocacy, provision, governance, curriculum, HRD, conferences

National ABET Task Team Consolidated Report October 1994 - April 1995

Author: National ABET Task Team
Date: 199505
Reference: National ABET Task Team. 1995. Consolidated Report October 1994 - April 1995. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Describes the setting up of the National ABET Task Team, its functions, the work it had done and the conferences organized, and progress achieved and recommends that the Task Team be replaced by a more representative National Stakeholder Forum to include representatives of the provincial departments of education, organised labour, business, women and youth organisations, churches, National Training Board, Ministry of Labour, Association of Regional Training Centres, the college sector, educators' organisations, national NGOs, Ministry of Labour and other ministries providing ABET, and that such a forum could lay a basis for the establishment of the National ABET Council

Note: the included list of Task team members is similar to the previous one prior to its supposed reconstitution at the National ABET Consultative conference of 26-27 January 1995 suggesting that the reconstitution was considered illegal and nul and void by the writers of the report.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, planning, advocacy, provision, governance

Department of Education and Department of Education ABET Working Group and the A National ABET Framework Interim Guidelines

Department of Education organogram

Author: Department of Education
Date: 1995
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Department of Education organogram. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Organogram with reference to the Directorate for Adult and Community Education and Training

Keywords: adult basic education, governance

Business plan for the National Adult Basic Education and Training Programme

Author: Department of Education
Date: 199501
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Business plan for the National Adult Basic Education and Training Programme. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: This business plan proposes setting up Khetsi Lehoko as manager of a national ABET programme and which is to be integrated with the RDP and to engage in harnessing resources from national, provincial and local governments, employers, organised labour, civics, NGOs, churches, development agencies, and mass organisations, reconstruction the existing state infrastructure, facilitating an audit of resources and the development of curriculum policy, provide via the "strategic thrusts" proposed in the Centre for Education Policy Development's Implementation Plan for Education and Training, and research an adequate financial framework. It also provides a budget.

Note: exact authorship of this document is unclear, it may have been produced at the Centre for Education Policy Development (or by the National ABET Task team) or possibly by the National Literacy Co-operation. Lehoko did become the Director of the Directorate for Adult basic and community education in the Department of Education.

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, finance, statistics, curriculum, standards, assessment

Letter to Khetsi Lehoko re ABET programme and your business plan

Author: Ramorola, A. and Zikalala, J.
Date: 19950111
Reference: Ramorola, A. and Zikalala, J. 1995. Letter to Khetsi Lehoko re ABE & T programme and your business plan. Pretoria: Reconstruction and Development Programme

Description: Letter from the RDP office raising concerns about the Department of Education ABET plan's lack of clear links to other ministries and departments and existing ABET prograames, as well as the lack of detailed plans

Keywords: Adult Basic Education, plan, governance

Business plan for the National Adult Basic Education and Training Programme (revised)

Author: Department of Education
Date: 19950222
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Business plan for the National Adult Basic Education and Training Programme. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: This is a revised verson of the Business plan for a national ABET programme which is to be integrated with the RDP and to engage in harnessing resources from national, provincial and local governments, employers, organised labour, civics, NGOs, churches, development agencies, and mass organisations, reconstruction the existing state infrastructure, facilitating an audit of resources and the development of curriculum policy, provide via the "strategic thrusts" proposed in the Centre for Education Policy Development's Implementation Plan for Education and Training, and research an adequate financial framework. It also provides a budget.

Note: exact authorship of this document is unclear, it may have been produced at the Centre for Education Policy Development (or by the National ABET Task team) or by the National Literacy Co-operation. Lehoko did become the Director of the Directorate for Adult basic and community education in the Department of Education.

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, finance, statistics, curriculum, standards, assessment

Extract from Education White paper 1995

Author: Department of Education
Date: 199503
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Extract from Education White paper 1995. Pretoriq: Department of Education

Description: Notes the context of undereducation and the new Constitutional right to basic education and sees ABET as a force for social participation and economic development and the need for a core curriculum and progressive steps of outcomes, but suggests self-study, partnerships to finance and provide, the use of existing facilities, Community Learning centres with access to electronic data, a representative national ABET Council, and a Directorate in the Department of Education

Keywords: adult basic education, governance, policy, curriculum, standards, partnerships, finance, NQF, distance education

Key Strategic issues for ABET

Author: Department of Education
Date: 199505
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Key Strategic issues for ABET. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Stresses building of partnerships, curriculum and standards development and the production of interim curriculum guidelines and assessment system design, the passing of a National Qualifications Framework Act, skills training, Recognition of Prior Learning, the set up of ABET Information Centres, a MIS, and funding

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, governance, curriculum, NQF, RPL, MIS, CLCs

A Framework for Delivery Interim Guidelines for a National Curriculum Framework and Standard Setting for Adult basic Education and Training (ABET) Draft Discussion Document July 1995

Author: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic Education Community Education and Training
Date: 199507
Reference: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic Education. 1995. A Framework for Delivery Interim Guidelines for a National Curriculum Framework and Standard Setting for Adult basic Education and Training (ABET) Draft Discussion Document July 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic Education

Description: First draft of the detailed guidelines with Vision, principles and aims, National standards for ABET, Certificates and qualifications, the Language of learning and teaching, an Approach to assessment in ABET, and Proposed interim standards and outcomes for ABET

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, ideology, language, curriculum, standards, competency, outcomes, NGOs, qualifications, NQF

Comments on: A framework for delivery (Draft discussion document July 1995)

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 199507
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1995.Comments on: A framework for delivery
(Draft discussion document July 1995). Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Discusses and critiques the language, ideological and educational framework, and definitions and terminology of the document as well as making detailed points about the distinction between basic and further education, and the implicit authoritarianism of parts of the document

Keywords:adult basic education, policy, ideology, language, curriculum, standards, competency, outcomes, NGOs, qualifications, NQF

A National Adult Basic Education and Training Framework: Interim Guidelines Discussion document August 1995

Author: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training
Date: 199509
Reference: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training. 1995. A National Adult Basic Education and Training Framework: Interim Guidelines Discussion document August 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training

Description: Second draft of the guidelines with Vision, principles and aims, National standards for ABET, Certificates and qualifications, the Language of learning and teaching, an Approach to assessment in ABET, and Proposed interim standards and outcomes for ABET

Keywords:adult basic education, policy, ideology, language, curriculum, standards, competency, outcomes, NGOs, qualifications, NQF

A National Adult basic Education and Training Framework: Interim Guidelines September 1995

Author: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training
Date: 199509
Reference: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training. 1995. A National Adult basic Education and Training Framework: Interim Guidelines September 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education - Directorate Adult Basic, Community Education and Training

Description: Final draft of the guidelines with Vision, principles and aims, National standards for ABET, Certificates and qualifications, the Language of learning and teaching, an Approach to assessment in ABET, and Proposed interim standards and outcomes for ABET

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, ideology, language, curriculum, standards, competency, outcomes, NGOs, qualifications, NQF

Summary of the interim guidelines for ABET

Author: Favish, J. and Omar, R.
Date: 1995
Reference: Favish, J. and Omar, R. 1995. Summary of the interim guidelines for ABET. Pretoria: Institute for Adult Basic Education and Training, University of South Africa

Description: A study guide prepared by the Institute for Adult Basic Education and Training of the University of South Africa that, apart from the summary, gives some background to the purpose of the Interim Guidelines and on their development process

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, ideology, language, curriculum, standards, competency, outcomes, NGOs, qualifications, NQF

Agenda for Fifth Meeting of the ABET Working Group

Author: Department of Education ABET Working Group
Date: 1991024
Reference: Department of Education ABET Working Group. 1995. Agenda for Fifth Meeting of the ABET Working Group. Pretoria: Department of Education ABET Working Group

Description: Agenda

Keywords: adult basic education, governance, policy, curriculum, assessment

Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum: 1995

Invitation to National ABET [Stakeholders' Forum] meeting on 23 May 1995

Author: Department of Education
Date: 19950511
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. Invitation to National ABET [Stakeholders' Forum] meeting on 23 May 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Invitation to the meeting

Keywords: adult basic education, governance

National Stakeholders' Forum: Minutes of Third Meeting on 28 June 1995

Author: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum
Date: 19950628
Reference: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum. 1995. National Stakeholders' Forum: Minutes of Third Meeting on 28 June 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Minutes

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, governance, curriculum, standards, outcomes, CLCs, PALCs, MIS, universities, educators, provision

National Stakeholders Forum: Invitation to Fourth Meeting on 24 August 1995

Author: National ABET Stakeholders' Forum
Date: 19950816
Reference: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum. 1995. National Stakeholders' Forum: Invitation to Fourth Meeting on 24 August 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Invitation

Keywords: adult basic education, governance

National Stakeholders' Forum: Agenda for Fourth Meeting on 24 August 1995

Author: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum
Date: 19950824
Reference: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum. 1995. National Stakeholders' Forum: Agenda for Fourth Meeting on 24 August 1995. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Agenda

Keywords: adult basic education, governance, curriculum, finance, ETDP

National Stakeholders' Forum: ABET Information Centres

Author: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum
Date: 19950824
Reference: National ABET Stakeholder's Forum. 1995. National Stakeholders' Forum: ABET Information Centres. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Attachment to NSF fourth meeting agenda, the document describes the need for ABET Information Centres and proposes a workshop, an audit, and co-operation with the proposed National ABET Helpline
Keywords: adult basic education, governance

Setting Standards for the Training of Adult Educators and Trainers in the field of Adult Basic Education and Training. Draft

Author: Adult Educators and Trainers Association of South Africa
Date: 19950928
Reference: Adult Educators and Trainers Association of South Africa. 1995. Setting Standards for the Training of Adult Educators and Trainers in the field of Adult Basic Education and Training. Draft. Pietermaritzburg: Adult Educators and Trainers Association of South Africa

Description: Explains the process of setting standards and level descriptors for adult educators and trainers in relation to their functioning in context, teaching, quality assurance and content and subject specialisation

Keywords: adult basic education, adult education, educators, trainers, practitioners, standards, competency, NQF

Report to the National Stakeholders' Forum of a meeting of the Standing Committee of Universities involved in ABET

Author: Walters, S.
Date: 19951128
Reference: Walters, S. 1993. Report to the National Stakeholders' Forum of a meeting of the Standing Committee of Universities involved in ABET. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape

Description: Reports on the setting up of the Standing Committee of Universities involved in ABET as a conduit through which the Department of Education would communicate with the universities about ABET and submits a brief plan of action about gaining some recognition from the National Council for Higher Education, the Committee of University Principals, and the Directorate for Higher Education, getting financial support for university adult education activities (especially in relation to building capacity to train professional adult educators), engaging with the Education, Training and development Practitioners project, and queries about the ad hoc way in which some closed teacher training colleges might be repurposed for adult education

Keywords: adult basic education, governance, policy, universities, funding, NQF, ETDP

KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET and Technical Task Team: 1995

KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET and the Technical Task Team - ABET documents - 1995

Author: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET (unless otherwise ascribed)
Date: 1995
Reference: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET. 1994. Pietermaritzburg: KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET

Description: The KwaZulu-Natal Project Task Group - ABET was set up to assist in the merger of adult education/adult basic education structures and programmes in the five previously separate education departments working in the province. It included departmental, university, NGO and teacher union representatives. It set up various sub-committees and later a Technical Task team was set up be the provincial Deparrtment of Education

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, provision, universities, NGOs, unions, governance, materials, partnerships, KwaZulu-Natal

1995 KZN PTG Report on National ABET Task team meeting
19950130 KZN Not all officials face transfer Natal Witness
199502 KZN PTG ABET Minutes of ABE Strategic focus sub-group
199502 KZN PTG ABET Proposal on strategic thrusts (John Aitchison)
19950209 KZN PTG ABET Minutes of meeting
19950210 KZN PTG ABET Letter from Stobie to Aitchison
19950217 KZN PTG ABET Meeting agenda
19950220 KZN PTG ABET Letter Lancaster to Ensor
19950306 KZN PTG ABET Minutes of meeting
19950316 KZN PTG ABET Letter from Lancaster to Aitchison
19950316 KZN PTG ABET Minutes of meeting
199504 KZN ABET Technical Task Team Provincial conference sub-group
19950421 KZN ABET Technical Task Team Workshop invitation
19950609 KZN Technical Task Team ABET Invitation to ABET Conference on 19 June 1995
19950710 KZN Project Task team ABET Minutes of meeting
19950719 KZN DEC ABET Conference
19950813 KZN Technical Task Team ABET invitation to meeting 25 August 1995
19950917 KZN PTG ABET Minutes of meeting
199511 KZN Dept of Education ABET Transformation Plan Pilot for 1996

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project: 1995

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project documents: 1995

Author: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project
Date: 1995
Reference: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project. 1995. Johannesburg: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project

Description: Documents of the research project which had aims to:

Finalise the ETDP Model and field tests it for implementation.
Develop a framework for professional development and explain the the implications for stakeholders.
Develop interim national standards for ETDPs.
Develop curriculum guidelines consistent with agreed national standards, set pilots and field test of this for ETDPs.
Grow enhanced capacity around research, standards setting and ETDP development.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

1995 ETDPp Contributions by various partners
1995 ETDPP Co-operative education submission
19950711 ETDPp NTB Invitation to first Plenary of ETDP Project
19950711 ETDPp An integrated approach to ETD
19950801 ETDPp Invitees Plenary 1 August 1995
19950801 ETDPp Agenda for first Plenary of ETDP Project
199506 ETDPp Phase 1 Component Contextual analysis Conceptual framework Working Paper 1 Gamble
19950823 ETDPp Phase 1 Component Conceptual background Working Paper 3
199508 ETDPp Phase 1 Component Contextual analysis Working Paper 4
19950831 ETDPp GTZ Plan of operations
19950831 ETDPp GTZ Project Planning Matrix
199509 ETDPp Newsletter Volume 1.1
199509 ETDPp Quarterly Volume 1.1
199512 ETDPp Quarterly Volume 1.2
19951027 ETDPp List of researchers
19951107 ETDPp Invitation to second plenary
19951114-15 ETDPp Workshop outline

DEAL Trust: 1995

Proposal: Planning grant for tertiary adult education sector national development programme

Author: DEAL Trust
Date: 19950921
Reference: DEAL Trust. 1995. Proposal: Planning grant for tertiary adult education sector national development programme. Johannesburg: DEAL Tust

Description: The Disseminating Expertise for Adult Literacy (DEAL) Trust was a joint venture of four university-based adult education departments or units to assist Adult Basic Education programmes in their work and dissemination of their work nationally and to raise funds. The formation of the Trust was prompted by a potential funder, USAID, wanting the funds to be routed through a consortium of universities involve in ABE support. The four participants were the following:

ZENEX Adult Literacy and Basic Information and Policy facility of the University of the Witwatersrand,
Adult Basic Education programme of the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal,
Adult Basic Education and Development programmeof the Department of Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies of the University of Cape Town,
Adult Basic Education Training, Research and Outreach Programme of the Centre for Continuing Education of the University of the Western-Cape.

The Proposal for a planning grant for the DEAL Trust gives a good indication of what was seen as necessary in developing a tertiary sector programme for the development of adukt educators and trainers.

Keywords: adult education, non-formal education, continuing education, second language education, provision, policy, practitioners, South Africa, Natal, KwaZulu, Western Cape, Eastern Cape

Rebuild Budget vote from zero

Author: National Treasury
Date: 1995
Reference: National Treasury. 1995. Rebuild Budget vote from zero. Pretoria: National Treasury

Description: Description of processes to rebuild the government departments' budget votes from zero

Keywords: governance, finance

Process for setting Standards

Author: Unknown
Date: 199501
Reference: Unknown. 1995. Process for setting Standards. Johannesburg: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: Outlines process that would be adopted by the South African Qualification Authority that was legislated into existence in 4 October 1995

Keywords: NQF, standards

Literacy Trends in South Africa [flier]

Author: Fuller, B., Pillay, P., and Sirur, N.
Date: 199501
Reference: Fuller, B., Pillay, P., and Sirur, N. 1993. Literacy Trends in South Africa [flier]. Cape Town: University of Cape Town

Description: Flier for presentation on a study, Literacy trends in South Africa: expanding education while reinforcing unequal achievement? conducted by the University of Cape Town and Harvard University

Keywords: literacy, research, statistics, universities

SASCO's RDP Proposal: People's Education through and for the RDP

Author: Allais, S.
Date: 1995
Reference: Allais, S. 1995. SASCO's RDP Proposal: People's Education through and for the RDP. Sovenga: South African Students'Congress

Description: Proposal suggesting recruiting students to do voluntary community work (including ABE tuition and career guidance), and incorporating a community work component into all university curriculums and for universities to establish 'RDP People's Education Task Teams'

Keywords: RDP, plan, universities, qualifications, curriculum, adult basic education

RDP Framework for discussion

Author: du Plessis, D.
Date: 19950302
Reference: du Plessis, D. 1995. RDP Framework for discussion.

Description: Presentation outlines RDP Fund goals, the schedule of RDP programmes, the process to be followed in 1995/6, issues identified, the way forward and the Function Committee process

Keywords: RDP, policy, plan, finance, development, evaluation

White paper on Education and Training

Author: Department of Education
Date: 19950315
Reference: Department of Education. 1995. White paper on Education and Training, Government Gazette, Number 16312.

Description: The paper outlines a broad vision of education and training to be seen together as an integrated whole and this implied a ‘view of learning which rejects a rigid division between ‘academic’ and ‘ applied’, ‘theory’ and ‘practice’, ‘knowledge’ and
‘skills’, ‘head’ and ‘hand’ (these divisions now being associated with ‘old occupational
and social class distinctions’ and ‘the ethnic structure of economic opportunity
and power’) (Chapter 2, Section 4). The purpose of education and training was to serve human resource development (Chapter 2, Section 3) and this indicated a decided shift in discourse from that of the days of struggle radicalism towards that of the business sector’s language. The paper advocated a new National Qualification Framework (NQF) based on a system of credits for learning outcomes achieved, which would do amazing things. It also explains the constitutional and organisational basis of the new system, how it will be funded, and details of reconstruction and development in the school system. The key chapter is Chapter 5, Developmental initiatives, which includes a small section, paragraphs 51 to 57, on ABET, which is not promised much financial support.

Keywords: policy, plan, adult basic education, development

Education and Training in Urban and Rural Infrastructure Development

Author: Development Bank of Southern Africa
Date: 199507
Reference: Development Bank of Southern Africa. 1995. Education and Training in Urban and Rural Infrastructure Development. Johannesburg: Development Bank of Southern Africa

Description: Agenda and presentation outlining needs addressed by the DBSA, the framework guiding its work, the education and training skills it can offer, on-going challenges, and its education and training arrangements

Keywords: development, finance, training

An analysis of policy development within the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal (1971 - 1991)

Author: Mackie, R.D.A.
Date: 199509
Reference: Mackie, R.D.A. 1993. An analysis of policy development within the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal (1971 - 1991). Cape Town: University of Cape Town

Description: Detailed and thorough history of the development of an extra-mural programme at the University of Natal in the 1970s through to its transformation in a Centre for Adult Education and moving towards an academic department of Adult Education that poses important questions on what policy frame moulded the developments of the Centre (its optimism about the dominant frame at the time of writing was regretably soon displaced by an authoritarian managerialist frame in the 2000s that lead to the total destruction of the Centre)

Keywords: adult education, history, universities, policy, ideology

Adult Education and Training in South Africa: a selected chronology from 1910 to 1995

Authors: Gush, C. and Walters, S.
Date: 199510
Reference: Gush, C. and Walters, S. 1995. Adult Education and Training in South Africa: a selected chronology from 1910 to 1995. Bellville: Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, University of the Western Cape

Description: A ground breaking chronology of adult education in South Africa, though it does have some limitation in its sources for the first half of the 20th century.

Keywords: adult education, literacy, history, ideology, universities, NGOs

Ways of seeing the National Qualifications Framework

Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Date: 199510
Reference: Human Sciences Research Council. 1995. Ways of seeing the National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

Description: Explanations of the purpose of the NQF, how the framework was built and its workability in practice

Keywords: NQF, policy, qualifications, standards, competency, ideology, training, skills

Language Assessment and the National Qualifications Framework. Conference Proceedings (October 12, 1995)

Editors: Vieyra-King, M. and Calteaux, K. (Eds)
Date: 19951012
Reference: Vieyra-King, M. and Calteaux, K. (Eds). 1996. Language Assessment and the National Qualifications Framework. Conference Proceedings (October 12,
1995). Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

Description: Proceedings of a Conference held by the Human Sciences Research Council and the Independent Examinations Board with contributions from the following:

Introductory comments: Language assessment and the NQF - Edward French (IEB) & Ihron Rensburg (Department of Education)
The NQF: Challenges in the language ﬁeld - Schalk Engelbrecht & Gerard Schuring (HSRC)
Language education and the National Qualiﬁcations Framework: An introduction to competency-based education and training - Daryl McLean (USWE)
Standards and levels in language assessment - Paul Musker, Sebolelo Nomvete (ELTIC)
The assessment of language outcomes in ABET: Implications of an approach - Elizabeth Burroughs, Melissa Vieyra-King, Gabi Witthaus (IEB)
Issues raised in plenary: Summary Conference participants
Summing Up — Drawing the issues together: in the context of language education policy - Neville Alexander (PRAESA)
Summing up — Drawing the issues together: in the context of the NQF
- Jeanne Gamble (UCT)

Keywords: language, assessment, policy, NQF, standards, competency, ideology

Ethnography for policy? Reflections on a literacy research project

Author: Breier, M.
Date: 19951028
Reference: Breier, M. 1995. Ethnography for policy? Reflections on a literacy research project. [Paper presented to the Kenton Conference at Grahamstown on 28 October 1995]

Description: Based on research conducted by the Social Uses of Literacy Research
Project at thc Centre for Adult and Continuing Education, Univensity of the Western Cape that adopted the "new literacy studies" ideological approach to literacy, the paper discusses some of the methodological problems using ethnological reserach for policy purposes

Keywords: literacy, research, ideology, universities

Asking the impossible? A look at some of the implications for adult educators of current proposals for the NQF

Author: Lugg, R.
Date: 199511
Reference: Lugg, R. 1995. Asking the impossible? A look at some of the implications for adult educators of current proposals for the NQF. [Paper presented at the International Conference on Adult Education and Training: its Role in Reconstruction and Development, held in Cape Town in November 1995]

Description: Outlines the proposed NQF jn some detail and discusses some of its (often very positive if implemented) implications for adult learners but warns of the dangers of a narrow, reductionist, and potentially disempowering effects of an outcomes-based approach to the NQF

Keywords: adult education, practitioners, ETDP, NQF, development, RDP, standards, competency, outcomes, qualifications

Speaking truth to power? Some problems in using ethnographic methods to influence the formulation of housing policy

Authors: Spiegel, A., Watson, V., and Wilkinson, P.
Date: 199511
Reference: Spiegel, A., Watson, V., and Wilkinson, P. 1995. Speaking truth to power?
Some problems in using ethnographic methods to influence the formulation of housing policy. Cape Town: School of Education, University of Cape Town

Description: Seminar paper which raises issues in using ethnographic research methods inn developing social policy

Keywords: research, universities, policy

Participants at ABE RDP meeting 3 November 1995

Author: Unknown
Date: 19951103
Reference: X, Y. 1993. Participants at ABE RDP meeting 3 November 1995. Pietermaritzburg: Y

Description: List of a large number of participants at a meeting about the Reconstruction and Development Programme and Adult Basic Education held in Pietermaritzburg

Keywords: adult basic education, RDP, plan, policy, NGOs, universities

Letter for assistance in re-writing the Interim ABET Guidelines

Author: Hamilton, S. (National Literacy Co-operation)
Date: 19951125
Reference: Hamilton, S. 1995. Letter for assistance in re-writing the Interim ABET Guidelines. Braamfontein: National Literacy Co-operation

Description: Explains the situation of Enrico Fourie of the National Literacy Co-operation having been contracted by the Department of Education to re-write the Interim ABET Guidelines but as he was incapable of doing the job the NLC was requesting volunteer help to complete the task

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, policy, research

1996

Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum: 1996

Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum documents: 1996

Author: Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1996
Reference: Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum. 1996. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Documents of the National ABET Stakeholders' Forum

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

1996 COSATU input on Core and Contextual area
199604 Business South Africa Communicate in the Workplace
199604 Business South Africa Position Paper on Core and Contextual
199604 Consolidation of input around Core and Contextual Outcomes
199604 Draft Registered standards for Mathematics ABET4 NQF1
199604 Registered standards for Communications ABET4 NQF1
199604 Registered standards for Engineering ABET4 NQF1
19960411 ASECA Exemplar of a core course at ABET level 4 Combined Sciences
19960411 ASECA Exemplar of a core course at ABET level 4 Integrated Social Studies
19960412 National ABET Stakeholders' Forum submission from Lucy Alexander and Jim Needham
19960415 ABET lnterim Guidelines Workshop attendance list
19960415 Project Literacy Integrated Accounting and Business economics
19960524 Universities Standing Committee of National Stakeholders’ Forum Letter from Shirley Walters
19960528 ABET NSF 10th Forum Agenda and draft ABET Council constititution
19960528 Universities Standing Committee to ABET to the National Stakeholders Forum on Core and Contextual
19960531 Aitchison to Nxumalo
19960729 Kell comment on ABET Interim Guidelines
19960730-31 ABET Interim Guidelines Workshop attendance list
19960731 NLC Submission on ABET Interim Guidelines to ABET NSF
19960830 DoE Minutes of Fouth National ABET Stakeholders’ Forum
19960928 DoE Agenda for Fifth National ABET Stakeholders’ Forum

National Literacy Cooperation Interim ABET Guidelines project: 1996

National Literacy Cooperation Interim ABET Guidelines project documents: 1996

Author: National Literacy Cooperation (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1996
Reference: National Literacy Coperation. 1996. Johannesburg: National Literacy Coperation

Description: Documents of the National Literacy Coperation project on rewriting the Interim ABET Guidelines for the Department of Education

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plans, standards, competency, qualifications, NQF, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, research

19960415 NLC Interim Guidelines Workshop programme
19960415 NLC Workshop on National Interim Guidelines Action minutes
19960415 NLC and ABEL Interim Guidelines Workshop Aitchison notes
19960521 NLC Assessment Workshop proceedings
19960528 NLC Second Interim Guidelines Workshop
199607 NLC Submission on Interim Guidelines to ABETNational Stakeholders Forum
19960724 NLC Interim GuidelineWorkshop (30-31 July) participant list
199607299 NLC Memo re Interim Guidelines Review Workshop Programme
19960730-31 NLC lnterim Guidelines Workshop Aitchison notes
19960731 NLC Submission on ABET NSF lnterim Guidelines
19960731 NLC Memo on Submission to National Interim Guidlelines
19960919 NLC Hamilton to Aitchison on Interim Guidelines Project

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project: 1996

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project documents: 1996

Author: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project
Date: 1996
Reference: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project. 1996. Johannesburg: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project

Description: Documents of the research project which had aims to:

Finalise the ETDP Model and field test it for implementation.
Develop a framework for professional development and explain the the implications for stakeholders.
Develop interim national standards for ETDPs.
Develop curriculum guidelines consistent with agreed national standards, set pilots and field test of this for ETDPs.
Grow enhanced capacity around research, standards setting and ETDP development.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

1996 ETDPp Re-conceptualising the ETDPP Gamble
1996 ETDPp A Network of knowledge and standards Model 1 Report
1996 ETDPp Adult educator roles
1996 SAQA Level descriptors Network Deciding on levels
199601 ETDPP Gamble letter to researchers
199602 ETDPp Current status and terms of reference Version 2
19960219 ETDPp Notice of Third Plenary on 5 March 1996
19960223 ETDPp lnvitation to Third Plenary
19960229 ETDPp Tuchten and Nong Progress report
199603 ETDPp Report from Aitchison and John March 1996
19960303 ETDPp Aitchison notes
19960305 ETDPp Third plenary
19960328 ETDPp Final Reports Contextual analysis Gamble
19960402 ETDPp Letter about expectations of researchers
19960411-15 Correspondence about complaint by Dee Roup of AETASA to ETDPp
19960516 ETDPp Letter re Fourth Plenary
19960521 ETDPp Assessment Workshop agenda
19960800 ETDPp Summaries of the Phase 1 Data collection 1996
19960823 USWE letter to Aitchison re ETDP research
199610 ETDPp Plenary list
199610 ETDPp Quarterly Volume 2.1
199610 ETDPp Erratum to Part 2 Section 2
199610 ETDPp Plenary List
199610 ETDPp SAQA Draft standards forABET practice
199610 ETDPp Terminology workshop documents
199610 SAQA Misc draft practioner unit standards
19961029 ETDPp Letter and agenda for Researcher Plenary
19961031-1102 ETDPp ETD qualifications based on standards for consideration at plenary
19961031-1102 ETDPp researcher Plenary Aitchison JJW notes
19961031-1102 ETDPp Researcher plenary timetable
19961101 ETDPp Setting standards for ETD Practitioners Model 2
19961206 ETDPp ABET Standards-Generating Task team minutes
19961223 ETDPp Phase 2 Draft report

World University Service Policy Forum on Adult Education: 1996

World University Service Policy Forum on Adult Education documents: 1996

Author: World University Service Policy Forum (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1996
Reference: World University Service Policy Forum. 1996. Johannesburg: World University Service

Description: Documents related to the Policy Forum on Adult Education held from 11 to 13 September 1996 at Halfway House, Midrand, sponsored by the World University Service (which had long supported the National Union of South African Students and SACHED). A post Forum committee was set up but not much came of it.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plans, universities, NGOs, finance, resources, materials

199608 WUS Policy Forum on adult education Press release
19960911 WUS Policy Forum on adult education Note on Day1 RoyWilliams
19960911 WUS Policy Forum on adult education Notes on Day1 byJohn Aitchison
19960912 WUS Policy Forum on adult education Notes on Day 2 by John Aitchison
19960912 WUS Policy Forum on adult education Summary of proceedings Day 2
19960912 WUS Policy Forum paper by John Aitchison
19960925 WUS Letter to lnterim Committee with attachments
19960930 WUS Letter from John Aitchison to lnterim Committee
19961212 WUS Policy Forum Committee document

Language Plan Task Group (Langtag): 1996

Language Plan Task Group documents: 1996

Author: World University Service Policy Forum (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1996
Reference: Language Plan Task Group. 1996. Pretoria: Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, State Language Services

Description: Documents related to the literacy sub-committee of the Language Plan Task Group that worked on a National language Plan for South Africa

Keywords: language, literacy, adult education, adult basic education, policy, plans, materials

199604 LANGTAG lnformation on (English)
199604 LANGTAG lnformation on (Afrikaans)
199604 LANGTAG lnformation on (Sesotho)
199604 LANGTAG lnformation on (Zulu)
199602 LANTAG Suggestions for chairpersons of sub-committees
199602 LANGTAG Language Planning in the literacy field Draft discussion document
1996 LANGTAG Workshop on literacy Programme
1996 LANTAG Literacy sub-committee Framework for status planning
1996 McLean D USWE Language education and the NQF
1996 LANGTAG The field of literacy Aitchison for Dept of Arts
1996 LANGTAG workshop on literacy Aitchison notes
1996 LANTAG Literacy sub-committee Materials development in ABE Submission from Lyster
199604 LANTAG Report draft
19960429 LANTAG Report on Language Equity workshop of 19960316
19960626 LANTAG Literacy sub-committee Letter from Independent Examinations Board (IEB) (Melissa King)

ABE capacity building research

Author: Harley, A., Aitchison, J.J.W., Lyster, E., Land, S. et al.
Date: 1996
Reference: Harley, A., Aitchison, J.J.W., Lyster, E., Land, S. et al. 1996. ABE capacity building research. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Key empirical study of the whole adult basic education field in South Africa. The contents of the survey are:

Preface and Contents
Introduction
1 The demography of functional illiteracy among adults in South Africa
2 Current learners
3 International perspectives on ABET policy and implementation
4 Policy development in South African ABE
5 ABE policy implementation at national and provincial levels
6 The financing of ABET
7 Human resource development in ABE
8 The providers - an overview
9 Curriculum and courses in South African ABE
10 Materials and materials development
11 ABE Teachers
12 Training teachers for ABE
13 Evaluation and research
14 Support and networking
Postscript

A slightly condensed version was published later in 1996:

Harley, A., Aitchison, J.J.W., Lyster, E., Land, S. et al. 1996. A survey of adult basic education in South Africa in the 90s. Cape Town: SACHED books

Keywords: adult basic education, literacy, adult education, PALCs, finance, HRD, practitioners, MIS, evaluation, research, statistics, universities, NGOs

Literacy waits ... and waits ... for something to happen

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1996
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1996. Literacy waits ... and waits ... for something to happen. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Description and discussion on the developments in adult literacy and basic education policy, plans and implementation since the 1970s

Keywords: literacy, adult education, adult basic education, policy, ideology, history, research, plan, provision, NGOs, universities

A National Qualifications Framework

Authors: Bird, A. et al.
Date: 1996
Reference: Bird, A. et al. 1993. A National Qualifications Framework. Johannesburg:

Description: Detailed document outlining the Principles for a NQF, the Aim of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), the Relationship of SAQA to other bodies and to curriculum design, the Main Functions of SAQA, its Institutional framework, and its role in promoting quality and coherence, the staffing budget for SAQA, and an Implementation Plan and its immediate steps, structure, staffing and budget, together with a summary of the proposed Act

Keywords: NQF, standards, competency, policy, plan, assessment, curriculum, finance

Early Childhood Development Policy for Beginners

Author: Jordi, R.
Date: 1996
Reference: Jordi, R. 1996. Early Childhood Development Policy for Beginners. Cape Town: National Educare Forum

Description: Early Childhood Development was an important area for the adult education and training of practitioners. This provides a good summary of the issues in this field

Keywords: ECD, practitioners, policy, plan

Educational Broadcasting Plan

Authors: Galombik, N. and Lekorotsoana, G.
Date: 1996
Reference: Galombik, N. and Lekorotsoana, G. 1996. Educational Broadcasting Plan. Pretoria: Department of Education, Chief Directorate of Adult Basic, Vocational and Distance Education and Training

Description: Commissioned by the Department of Education this plan describes the context and vsion for educational broadcasting, provides a needs analysis, and a stratfgic approach for the period July 1996 to December 1997

Keywords: policy, plan, media, radio, television, finance, adult education, research

Learning to Work? Changing Discourses on Education and Training in South Africa, 1976-96

Author: McGrath, S.
Date: 19960625
Reference: McGrath, S. 1996. Learning to Work? Changing Discourses on Education and Training in South Africa, 1976-96. Edinburgh: Univeristy of Edinburgh [Unpublised PhD thesis

Description: The text focusses on the education and training policy discourses seen primarily through the exploration of major reports on education and training and, where possible, through the background documents that shaped them. Four meta-narratives are identified as influential in the policy debates of the period: the pro-equity vision of People’s Education; the New Right market-oriented approach; the trade-union driven New Times version of Post Fordism; and Lean Production, the pro-employer alternative to New Times. An argument is made that the contested policy discourse of that time points to the very real possibility of a rather narrow version of the integration of education and training emerging in South Africa.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, skills, training, policy, plan, ideology

Understanding the National Qualifications Framework

Author: Education Information Centre and Independent Examination Board
Date: 1996
Reference: Education Information Centre and Independent Examination Board. 1996. Understanding the National Qualifications Framework. Johannesburg: Education Information Centre and Independent Examination Board

Description: Basic explanation of the NQF, its principles, outcomes and competency-based approach, it structure and levels, amd the bodies which will implement it

Keywords: NQF, lifelong learning, outcomes, standards, competency, curriculum. assessment

Research project into adult basic education and training and development

Authors: Research team
Date: 199601
Reference: Research team. 1996. Research project into adult basic education and training and development. Braamfontein: Centre for Education Policy Development

Description: a collaborative project of the Department of Education, the Centre for Education Policy Development, the National Literacy Co-operation and the Development Bank of South Africa, a twelve person research team defined ABET and Development and development developmentral indicators for Individual/Learner Development, Socio-Economic Development, Socio-Political Development and Socio-Cultural Development, looked at positive and negative factors that impact on integrating ABET and development, presented some strategic proposals and processes for implementing the proposals, and provided analyses of various sites for ABET provision

Keywords: adult basic education, development, training, policy, plan, ideology

Norms and Standards for Teacher Education

Author: Committee on Teacher Education Policy ( COTEP)
Date: 199602
Reference: Committee on Teacher Education Policy ( CO TEP). 1996. Norms and Standards for Teacher Education. Johannesburg: YYY

Description: Ponderous bureaucratic document that provides guidelines for teacher education institutions to "to improve the quality of teacher education by the development of competences" and gives only a few derisory lines on pages 33-34 on adult basic education educators

Keywords: practitioners, adult basic education, comptency, curriculum, standards

Lifelong learning through a National Qualifications Framework

Author: Ministerial committee for development work on the NQF
Date: 199602
Reference: Ministerial committee for development work on the NQF. 1996. Lifelong learning through a National Qualifications Framework. Pretoria: Department of Education, Ministerial committee for development work on the NQF

Description: This document was heavily influenced by the Human Sciences Research Council publication Ways of seeing the National Qualifications Framework and by the example of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Its vision is of an integrated education and training system achieved via a national qualifications framework, already set up in the South African Qualifications Authority Act of 1995, which had as an objective precisely the creation of ‘an integrated national framework for learning achievements and to enhance access to, and mobility and quality within, education andtraining’.The original brief of the ministerial committee that authored the document had been rather tightly prescribed: it had to formulate proposals for a NQF curriculum framework that was modular and which would have standards setting, registering, monitoring, accrediting, certifying and auditing bodies. The extremely formal nature of the envisioned framework is notable, as is the fact that it nowhere mentions lifelong learning. In a set of 31 largely technical recommendations, there is very little evidence of any conceptual or paradigm shifts and only one reference to lifelong learning. It argues that knowledge can no longer be equal to content only but must be recognized as having an interdependent relationship with skills and attitudes — all of which contribute towards competence (itself equated with gaining the required number of NQF credits to get a qualification!). Similarly, although learning can supposedly take place anywhere, anytime, by any means, it is only ‘learning’ if it meets nationally required standards! It also adopts a set of key principles relating to the NQF that become the standard, mantra like preamble to many subsequent education and training pronouncements, namely: Integration, Relevance, Credibility, Coherence, Flexibility, Quality, Legitimacy, Access, Progression, Portability, Articulation, Recognition of prior learning, Guidance of learners, Democratic participation, and Equality of opportunity. Though these principles have a certain banal desirability, it is notable that only the economic is valorized (education and training are part of a human resource development policy, relevance means relevance to national economic, social and political development needs, it is career pathways which are important) and education and training progression is conceptualized in terms of the accumulation of credits for reaching nationally approved standards. The authors make rather clumsy attempt to demonstrate how to avoid outcomes-based learning being seen as prescriptive and behaviourist, by saying that it is not detailed and prescriptive but broad, flexible and general and should be done in a way that is holistic and developmental. As a demonstration it is ludicrous. Most of the text is in fact a technical and often confused discussion of outcomes based education, the NQF, standards and modularization — on the latter, it presents a quite extraordinary argument as to why modularization is good in adult basic education and training but really bad in schooling!

Keywords: policy, NQF, standards, competency, lifelong learning

Database of South African training and capacity building providers

Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Date: 19960516
Reference: Human Sciences Research Council. 1996. Database of South African training and capacity building providers. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council

Description: The Programme for Development Research (PRODDER) at the HSRC set up this database, building on work done by education and developmental NGOs in previous years. The main focus of the database was on organisations providing training courses in areas such as adult basic education, development programmes/projects skills, technical skills, business, management and administrative skills and training of trainers. The database operation did not last long.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, research, statistics, NGOs, universities

Members of the South African Qualifications Authority

Author: Department of Education
Date: 19960531
Reference: Department of Education. 1996. Members of the South African Qualifications Authority. Government Gazette, Volume 371, Number 17227, 31 May 1996

Description: List of 24 members of the Authority with Samuel Isaacs as Chairperson

Keywords: Policy, NQF

A critical assessment of the Department of Education's Assessment Guidelines for ABET

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 199607
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1996. A critical assessment of the Department of
Education's Assessment Guidelines for ABET. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education

Description: The Assessment Guidelines released in July 1996 outline an outcomes-based approach to assessment, lists requirements and procedures for registration and accreditation (as examination boards), and prescribes how assessments (in practice mainly formal examinations) should be run. It also proposes the creation of a new class of educational bureaucrats called "assessors" (who will have to be trained). The writer argues that the Assessment Guidelines are propagandist, inaccurate, ideologically naive, have a narrow credentialised view of assessment, and offer virtually no actual guidelines to improve educational practice.

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, assessment, outcomes, adult educators, ideology

Trends and Shifts in NGO Funding

Author: South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED)
Date: 199607
Reference: South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED). 1996. Trends and Shifts in NGO Funding. Johannesburg: South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED)

Description: This Education Brief issued in July 1996 discussed some of the issues related to shifts and changes in NGO funding, in relation to the new State and the international and national donor and funding communities, and points to pressures for change and the redefinition of NGO work, including their relationship to exiting funding bodies such as the Kagiso Trust, the Independent Development Trust (IDT), the Joint Education Trust (JET), and the new Transitional National Development Trust (TNDT). The document identified many of the problems consequent on the discrepancy between the people who were responsible for policy work within the ANC alliance and the people who were eventually appointed to head the Ministries and the lack of capacity within those ministries, as well as the precipitous closure of the Reconstruction and Development Programme. In addition there was a degrading of the capacity, as well as the good will towards the new State, of NGOs and CBOs that were expected to maintain and even further develop key projects and to make considerable contributions to State policy and implementation processes as their funding was drastically curtailed.

Keywords: finance, policy, NGOs, ideology

Draft Report on the origin of the Mayer competencies: a cautionary note

Author: Lyster, E.
Date: 19960730
Reference: Lyster, E. 1996. Draft Report on the origin of the Mayer competencies: a cautionary note. Durban: Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Description: A cautionary note on the applicability of the Mayer competencies, used in Australia, to adult basic education (as had been done inn the Interim Guidelines)

Keywords: competency, outcomes, training

National Policy on Teacher Supply, Utilisation and Development (Discussion document)

Author: Department of Education
Date: 199608
Reference: X, Y. 1996. National Policy on Teacher Supply, Utilisation and Development (Discussion document). Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: This detailed policy document outlines goals of teacher education, its values and principles, a conceptual framework (heavily focussed on professionalisation), coherence in teacher supply and distribution, norms and standards, the curriculum, governance, quality assurance, capacity buidling, and immediate priorities for action. Although a broadening of the category 'teacher'to include adult basic educatiors, ECD practioners, etc., there is only a small section on adult basic education educators - the existence of many illiterates is recognised as is the high dropout from schools,

Keywords: practitioners, adult educators, adult basic education, training, qualifications, ETDP,

Briefing paper: ABET infrastructural support - what is in place, and what is needed

Author: Centre for Adult Education
Date: 19960905
Reference: Centre for Adult Education. 1996. Briefing paper: ABET infrastructural support - what is in place, and what is needed. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Outlines the current adult education policy, system, finance, provision, materials, and resources, and provides some statistical tables and future challenge areas

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, research, statistics, universities

Setting Standards for the Training of Adult Educators and Trainers in the Field of Adult Basic Education and Training (Draft)

Author: Adult Educators and Trainers Association of South Africa
Date: 19960928
Reference: Adult Educators and Trainers Association of South Africa. 1996. Draft. Setting Standards for the Training of Adult Educators and Trainers in the Field of Adult Basic Education and Training. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Describes context, areas of competence, quality assurance, content and subject specialisation, level descriptors, levels and roles of practitioners and their proposed qualification levels on the NQF

Keywords: adult education, NQF, qualifications, standards, competency, practitioners

Draft Guidelines for Adult Examination Policy for former DET and related centres

Author: Working Group for ABET Interim Policy Guidelines and Standards of
the national Department of Education
Date: 19961024
Reference: Working Group for ABET Interim Policy Guidelines and Standards of
the national Department of Education. 1993. Draft Guidelines for Adult Examination Policy for former DET and related centres. Pretoria: Department of Education, Chief Directorate for Adult Basic, Distance and Vocational Education

Description: Describes the crisis around examinations in formal official adult education, the inherited examination practices, and a proposed model for an assessment system for adults, transitional arrangements and the resourcing thereof, and implementation steps

Keywords: adult basic education, assessment, policy, plan, finance

Interim report of the KwaZulu-Natal Ithuteng Programme evaluation

Author: Department of Adult and Community Education and the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal
Date: 19961109
Reference: Department of Adult and Community Education and the Centre for Adult Education of the University of Natal. 1996. Interim report of the KwaZulu-Natal Ithuteng Programme evaluation. Durban: Natal ABE Support Agency

Description: Interim report on a formative and summative evaluation of the Ithuteng Programme of the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and Cuture (ABET
Division) that describes problem in the selection of teachers (lack of criteria nd guidelines), their deployment to training (mainly be self-selection), no consistency in registration forms, minimal orientation to the Ithuteng programme, inadequencies in training courses

Keywords: adult basic education, adult education, plan, implementation, evaluation, practitioners, training

1997

Department of Education: 1997

Department of Education documents: 1997

Author: Department of Education (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1997
Reference: Department of Education. 1997. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Documents issued by the Department of Education relating mainly to teacher education and the school curriculum 2005 (the latter of particular interest because of its espousement of outcomes based education and its provision of a multitude of pedagogicically useless over-generaliased outcomes). There is material on monitoring and evaluation of adult education, and further and higher education policy.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, curriculum, outcomes, PALCs, monitoring and evaluation, RPL, policy, plans, FET, higher education

199702 DoE Curriculum 2005 Lifelong learning for the 21st century
199702 Revision of COTEP norms and standards Working Group Report
19970228 National Committee on Further Education - Preliminary Report
19970318 DoE Workshop on the Revision of the norms and standards for teacher education Programme
19970318 SAQA and the NQF Graham Hall Workshop on the Revision of the Norms and Standards for Teacher Education
199704 DoE Curriculum 2005 discussion document Grades 1 to 9
199706 Regulatory Framework Transforming night schools into Public Adult Learning Centres
19970814 DoE Report of National Committee on Further Education
19970815 White paper 3 Higher Education
199711 DoE Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy for AET 4th draft
19971131 DoE Norms and standards for teacher education, training and development
199712 DoE AET Directorate RPL for ABET Framework document First Draft

Policy Document on Adult Basic Education and Training: 1997

Policy Document on Adult Basic Education and Training documents: 1997

Author: Department of Education (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1997
Reference: Department of Education. 1997. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: The Policy Document on Adult Basic Education and Training October 1997 is the only formally approved policy on Adult basic education and training ever issued by the Department of Education. Its development was somewhat complicated.

First, the Department commissed Enrico Fourie, Director of the National Literacy Cooperation to draft the policy. A draft was compiled by the National Literacy Co-operation staff:

These are three versions thereof:

199701 DoE Policy guidelines 2000 ABET in SA Draft discussion document
199701 DoE NLC authored draft policy document for ABET
199703 DoE NLC authored draft policy for ABET Fourie

Unfortunately, the Government had recently made a drastic shift in economic policy, adopting the thoroughly neo-liberal Growth, Employment and and Redistribution (GEAR) policy, totally contary to the radical socialist rhetoric embeded in the NLC draft. Khetsi Lehoko, who had rapidly risen to become a conformist apparatchik in the Department of Education retracted the document.

19970206 DoE Lehoko retraction of NLC authored ABET policy guidelines document

The Department was then faced with a problem. A major conference to endorse the policy document and a four-year implementation plan had set down for April. Helene Perold and John Aitchison were contracted to rescue the policy document in one week.

199703 DoE Draft Policy for ABET (Perold and Aitchison revision)
199703 DoE AE and T in South Africa Draft policy document
19970316 Perold to Aitchison re the revision of ABET policy document
19970316 Perold to Ndebele-Nxumalo re revision of ABET policy document

The Conference was held and the final version printed by the Department in October 1997:

199710 DoE Policy document on ABET Final printed

In the 2000s a version of the document was available on the Department of Higher Education website, though it has now been removed.

2000 Policy document on ABET 1997 website version

The actual policy document covers the background to the policy, definition of, and an the approach to ABET and its institutionalisation, lifelong learning, a curriculum framework, assessment and materials (with a very clear description of the NQF), instructional delivery, training and orientation, professional and technical support, social mobilisation, monitoring and evaluation and information systems, imolementatiuon and finances. There are three appendices, two of which, on evaluating courses and training materials had previously been publshed by John Aitchison.

Keywords: policy, adult education, adult basic education, NQF, curriculum, outcomes, lifelong learning, training, practitioners, materials, monitoring and evaluation, RPL, MIS

A national Multi-year Implementation Plan for adult education and training: provision and accreditation: 1997

A national Multi-year Implementation Plan for adult education and training: provision and accreditation: 1997

Author: Department of Education (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1997
Reference: Department of Education. 1997. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: A Four Year Implementation plan for Adult Education and Training Provision and accreditation was drafted by Gail Elliot for presentation at a large Department of Education conference to be held in April 1997.

This is the draft Conference document, notes on the Conference, and a document prepared after the Conference for use by a revision team:

19970421 DoE A Four Year Implementation plan for Adult Education and Training Provision and Accreditation Draft
19970421-23 DoE ABET Conference documents and notes by Aitchison
199704 DoE A four year implementation plan for AET input document

It had been recommended at the April Conference that the Four Year Implementation Plan be integrated with the Draft Policy on Adult Basic Education and Training by the end May 1997 and that the integrated document be adopted by the National Stakeholder Forum and by the Chamber (proposedin the Plan) once the National BET Statekholder Forum was dissolved.

What in fact happened was that a Department of Education revision of the plan was undertaken by a USAID financed technical team that included Harbans Bhola as consultant, John Aitchison who was to edit the final plan, Gail Elliot, Louise Vale, Enrico Fourie (who hardly participated) and Bangani Ngeleza, Lindile Ndabeni, Thabo Mabogoani, and Luis Crouch (another consultant):

199710 DoE A National Multi-Year Implementation Plan final draft
199710 DoE A National multi year implementation plan Final printed

The Plan has 18 chapters:

1. A National Vision for Adult Education and Training
2. Overall National Objective for the Multi-Year Implementation Plan
3. Origins of the Multi-Year Implementation Plan
4. Context and Challenges
5. Baseline Data for the Multi-Year Implementation Plan
6. SWOT Analysis of the ABET Sector by the ABET Sector
7. Learner Enrolments and Achievements
8. A Curriculum Framework, Unit Standards and Learning Materials
9. An Assessment System for Adult Education and Training
10. Effective Learning Institutions
11. Practitioner Development
12. The Quality Assurance System
13. Mobilisation and Advocacy
14. Research and Development
15. Monitoring and Evaluation
16. Financing and Resourcing
17. Co-ordinating Structures
18. Consolidated List of Implementation Steps

Keywords: policy, adult education, adult basic education, statistics, NQF, curriculum, outcomes, lifelong learning, training, practitioners, materials, monitoring and evaluation, RPL, MIS, finance, governance, research

Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum: 1997

Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum documents: 1997

Author: Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum (unless otherwise specified)
Date: 1997
Reference: Department of Education National ABET Stakeholders' Forum. 1997. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Documents of the National ABET Stakeholders' Forum

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

Education, Training and Development Practioners project: 1997

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project documents: 1997

Author: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project
Date: 1997
Reference: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project. 1997. Johannesburg: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project

Description: Documents of the research project which had aims to:

Finalise the ETDP Model and field test it for implementation.
Develop a framework for professional development and explain the the implications for stakeholders.
Develop interim national standards for ETDPs.
Develop curriculum guidelines consistent with agreed national standards, set pilots and field test of this for ETDPs.
Grow enhanced capacity around research, standards setting and ETDP development.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

1997 ETDPp Notes on Models by Aitchison
1997 ETDPp Final report Cluster 6 NGOs Aitchison, John and Butler
1997 Hallendorff Unit standards - summary
19970110 ETDPp Editorial comment by John Aitchison on Draft report Phase 2
199702 SAQA Norms and standards for adult practitioners Matrix Unit Standards
199702 SAQA Specifying outcomes and assessment standards
199702 ETDPp Phase 2 Report
199702 SAQA Draft Adult Educator standards - Organising the unit standards
19970219 SAQA Draft Adult Educator standards
199702 ETDPp SAQA ABET facilitator standards drafts
199703 SAQA Unit standards for Assessment and Adult practitioner education
19970303 ETDPp Hunsdorfer and Aitchison comments on Project Progress Review report
19970318 ETDPp Standards Generating Task Team notes of meeting of 25-26 February 1997
199704 ETDPp SAQA ABET facilitator standards drafts
199704 SAQA Erratum for draft standards for ABET facilitator
199704 NTB NQF Engineering and Manufacturing Processes Pilot Project
199706 ETDPp Setting standards for ETDP in South Africa
199709 ETDPp Phase 3 Model 2 Standard setting process Analysis of ETD sub-field HET Appendix A
1997 ETDPp Setting standards Model 2 Provisional field analysis Occupation-directed ETD Appendix C
199710 ETDPp Provisional analysis for the sub-field Development and ABET Appendix D

The field of literacy: current situation and prospects

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1997
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1997. The field of literacy: current situation and prospects. Pretoria: Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, State Language Services

Description: Concise description of the situation of illiteracy compiled for the Department's Language Plan Task Group (LANTAG) containing the following sections:

Introduction
How is literacy defined?
How many adult illiterates are there?
University of Natal adult illiteracy estimates
Estimating the number of potential learners
Are more functionally illiterate people going to be ejected from the school system?
What is the language composition of the adult illiterate population?
How many adult illiterates are becoming literate each year?
What is the language composition of adult provision?
Mother tongue courses
English Second language courses
What language policies are present in current literacy provision?
Models of literacy instruction
What is the current state of literacy teacher provision?
State short courses
NGO short courses
Commercial training organisation and companies short courses
Tertiary institution provided long courses
NGO provided long courses
Who are the chief stakeholders and role players in the field of literacy?
What are the issues and debates in respect of literacy?
Adult illiteracy and the right to basic education
Adult illiteracy and language rights
Summary of literacy matters requiring research

Keywords: language, literacy, adult basic education, plan, research, statistics, universities

Opening and closing addresses to an ABET seminar

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1997
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1997. Opening and closing addresses to an ABET seminar. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: An incisive analysis of the curent situation, its precursors and likely future trends in the development of an ABET system in South Africa

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, history, research, policy, plan

Learning from the IEB's ABET exams

Author: French, E.
Date: 199704
Reference: French, E. 1997. Learning from the IEB's ABET exams. Johannesburg: Independent Examination Board

Description: The article starts with background to the Independent Examination Board’s ABET exams and a brief discussion of the uses and limitations of public examinations as indicators of achievements and problems in education. It describes the picture of the provision of ABET outside of the government sector in South
Africa as revealed by the IEB's examination statistics, what showed up in the marking process, and what made for successful examination centres. Distribution figures show widespread use of the assessment system with a preponderance in Gauteng and in industry. English examinations are far more popular than most African languages, and almost twice as many papers are written in Communications than in Numeracy/Maths. A main reason for a low sucess rate was the lack of readiness. Observations from successful centres point to motivation, commitment, professional discipline, a supportive context, and close, informed attention to the IEB’s guides and requirements.

Keywords: adult basic education, assessment, NGOs, statistics

A review of adult basic education and training in South Africa

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 199708
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1997. A review of adult basic education and training in South Africa. Tallahassee, Florida: Center for Policy Studies, Florida State University

Description: A comprehensive overview of the history of adult education in South Africa from 1960 (when the apartheid regime crushed the main anti-apartheid political movements) to the mid 1997s when, after a period of struggle (which reached its climax in the late eighties and early nineties), South Africa was in the first term of a democratic government and the attempts to create a substantial ABET system were stalling

[Is updated by Aitchison's two 2003 articles:

Struggle and compromise: a history of South African adult education from 1960 to 2001. Journal of Education, Number 29, pp. 125-178

Brak! vision,mirage and reality in the post apartheid globalisation of South Africa adult education and training. Journal of Education, Number 31, pp. 47-73]

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, adult education, history, research, statistics, policy, plan, ideology, universities, NGOs

Uncertain outcomes. Pilot study for an investigation of the effects on teaching practice of the introduction of outcomes-based education in adult basic education: two Independent Examinations Board site case studies

Author: Seid, S., Nurss, J., and Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 199708
Reference: Seid, S., Nurss, J., and Aitchison, J.J.W. 1997. Uncertain outcomes. Pilot study for an investigation of the effects on teaching practice of the introduction of outcomes-based education in adult basic education: two Independent Examinations Board site case studies. Tallahassee, Florida: Center for Policy Studies, Florida State University

Description: This pilot study of two ABET sites set out to develop an instrument (an interview schedule) that would enable a larger research project to examine the impact (or lack of impact) on teacher behaviour of the introduction of outcomes based education. Because of the small scale of the survey no definite findings are produced but the case for a deeper and more thorough exploration is supported by the two case studies.

Keywords: adult basic education, assessment, curriculum, outcomes, research

Education For All: from "special needs and support" to developing quality education for all learners. Summary of Public discussion document

Author: National Commission on Special Needs in Education and Training (NCSNET) National Committee for Education Support Services (NCESS)
Date: 199708
Reference: National Commission on Special Needs in Education and Training (NCSNET) National Committee for Education Support Services (NCESS). 1997. Education For All: from "special needs and support" to developing quality education for all learners. Summary of Public discussion document. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Recommendations made on the basis of investigations made earlier in the year covering all aspects of education, at all levels: early childhood development, general education, further education, higher education, and adult education.

Keywords: special needs, policy, plan, research, adult education, lifelong learning, practitioners, materials

Education For All: from "special needs and support" to developing quality education for all learners. Public discussion document

Author: National Commission on Special Needs in Education and Training (NCSNET) National Committee for Education Support Services (NCESS)
Date: 199708
Reference: National Commission on Special Needs in Education and Training (NCSNET) National Committee for Education Support Services (NCESS). 1997. Education For All: from "special needs and support" to developing quality education for all learners. Public discussion document. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Recommendations made on the basis of investigations made earlier in the year covering all aspects of education, at all levels: early childhood development, general education, further education, higher education, and adult education.

Keywords: special needs, policy, plan, research, adult education, lifelong learning, practitioners, materials

1998

Department of Education: 1998

Outcomes-based education and training for adults: conversion of unit standards into learning programmes training manual

Author: Continuing Education Programme
Date: 1998
Reference: Department of Education. 1998. Outcomes-based education and training for adults: conversion of unit standards into learning programmes training manual. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Provides a detailed manual on the provision of a cascade of training for the construction of a curriculum for ABET learning programmes on the basis of a set of pre-determined set of outcomes inn the absence of a syllabus of content.

Keywords: adult basic education, curriculum, outcomes, traning, practitioners, NQF

Education White Paper 4 - A programme for the transformation of Further Education and Training

Author: Department of Education
Date: 19980925
Reference: Department of Education. 1993. Education White Paper 4 - A programme for the transformation of Further Education and Training. Government Gazette, Volume 399, Number 19281

Description: Although a few references are made to provision to young adults and the larger adult population and to PALCs, there is little of substance on adult education. One suggestion is made that some ABET courses could be provided by FET institutions.

Keywords: FET, adult education, adult basic education, NQF, policy, PALCs

Education, Training and Development Practioners project: 1998

Education, Training and Development Practitioners project documents: 1998

Author: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project
Date: 1998
Reference: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project. 1998. Johannesburg: Education, Training and Development Practitioners project

Description: Documents of the research project which had aims to:

Finalise the ETDP Model and field test it for implementation.
Develop a framework for professional development and explain the the implications for stakeholders.
Develop interim national standards for ETDPs.
Develop curriculum guidelines consistent with agreed national standards, set pilots and field test of this for ETDPs.
Grow enhanced capacity around research, standards setting and ETDP development.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, training, literacy, policy, plans, provision, universities, NGOs, governance, curriculum, finance, research, conferences

199801 ETDPp Phase 3 A Network of Knowledge and Standards - Model 1
199801 ETDPp Phase3 Field testing of Standards setting - Model 2 (draft)
199801 NTB ETDPp Phhase 3 Field testing of Standards setting - Model 2
199802 ETDPp Phase3 Standard Setting - Model 2 Sub-file analysis Schooling Appendix B

Universities and technikons that participated in the Universities Standing Committee on ABET in 1996/98 plus some other interested ones

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 1998
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1998. Universities and technikons that participated in the Universities Standing Committee on ABET in 1996/98 plus some other interested ones. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: List of participants and followers

Keywords: adult basic education, policy, plan, ideology, governance, research, universities

Naught for your comfort: Critique and its denial in South African adult basic education and training

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19981020
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1998. Naught for your comfort: Critique and its denial in South African adult basic education and training. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Aitchison's response to a vituperative attack on him by two apparatchiks, Gugu Nxumalo, the Director of the Adult Education Directorate in the Department of Education, and Noel Daniels, another official, that includes his original paper that was denounced, the official Directorate response to it, and his critical rejoinder. Not suitable to sensitive readers who do not have a strong sense of humour and in particular, irony.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, policy, plan, ideology, governance, research, statistics, NGOs, universities

1999

University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: 1999-2000

University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: 1999-2000

Authors: Aitchison, J.J.W., Houghton, T., and Baatjes, I., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., Stead, Wallis, J., Land, S., and Seid, S.
Date: 199902-200002
References: Aitchison, J.J.W., Houghton, T., and Baatjes, I., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., Stead, Wallis, J., Land, S., and Seid, S. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Description: A set of ten reports, one on each province and one for the whole country, were published in late 1999 and early 2000 by the Joint Education Trust commissioned University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training. The survey was seen as an update on the earlier University of Natal survey published in 1996 by Maskew Miller Longman/SACHED, A survey of adult basic education in South Africa in the 90s.

Each report has a similar structure covering the Research process, Demographic context, the Sectors (State, Buisness, NGOs and Higher Education) and their Provision, Policy developments, Funding, Multi-Year Implementation Plans, Governance structures and Partnerships, Learners, Practioners, Curriculum, assessment and materials, Adult further education and various conclusions and recommendations. The national report has additional information on the National Directorate for ABET in the national Department of Education and on Alternative visions.

Aitchison, J.J.W., and Houghton, T., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Eastern Cape. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Aitchison, J.J.W., and Houghton, T., with Douglas, R. and Dlamini, M. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Free State. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Houghton, T., and Aitchison, J.J.W., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M. and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Gauteng.Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Houghton, T., and Aitchison, J.J.W., with Wallis, J., Land, S., Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: KwaZulu-Natal. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Houghton, T., and Aitchison, J.J.W., with Baatjes, I., Seid, S., Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Mpumalanga. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Houghton, T., and Aitchison, J.J.W., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Northern Cape. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Houghton, T., and Aitchison, J.J.W., with Baatjes, I., Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: Northern Province. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Aitchison, J.J.W., and Houghton, T., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., and Stead, H. 1999. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: North West. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Aitchison, J.J.W., Houghton, T., and Baatjes, I., with Douglas, R., Dlamini, M., Seid, S. and Stead, H. 2000. University of Natal survey of adult basic education and training: South Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education and Department of Adult and Community Education, University of Natal

Keywords: adult basic education, adult further education, research, universities, provision, policy, plan, finance, practitioners, curriculum, assessment, materials

Literacy and adult basic education and training in South Africa: a quick survey

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 199910
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. 1999. Literacy and adult basic education and training in South Africa: a quick survey. Adult education and development. No 53, pp. 99-120

Aitchison, J.J.W. 1999. Alfabetización y educación/capacitación básica de adultos en Sudáfrica: un breve estudio. Educación de adultos y desarrollo. No 53, pp. 111-136

Aitchison, J.J.W. 1999. Bref aperçu de l'alphabétisation et de l'éducatión et de la formation de base des adultes en Afrique du Sud. Éducacion des adultes et développement. No 53, pp. 111-134

Description: A revision of the controversial paper Aitchison had produced in June 1998.

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, literacy, policy, plan, research, statistics, NQF, NGOs, universities, governance

Educational Interventions in the Field of Adult Education and Youth Development: Scenarios for SABC Education

Author: South African Institute of Distance Education
Date: 1999
Reference: South African Institute of Distance Education. 1999. Educational Interventions in the Field of Adult Education and Youth Development: Scenarios for SABC Education. Johannesburg: South African Institute of Distance Education

Description: A massive survey which maps the terrain of adult education and youth development, the policies impacting on the field, the key education and training challenges, and a detailed examination of educational broadcasting with a wealth of descriptions of organisations active in the field, and a set of recommendations on possible broadcasting initiatives, and an implementation plan.

A summary is also available: Report Summary

Keywords: adult education, adult basic education, development, youth, radio, television, media, materials, distance education, NGOs, universities,

Annual Survey Public Adult Learning Centres. Final Report. 1999

Author: Human Sciences Research Council
Date: 1999
Reference: Human Sciences Research Council. 1999. Annual Survey Public Adult Learning Centres. Final Report. 1999. Pretoria: Department of Education

Description: Survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council for the Department of Education and funded by the European Union, that is unique as the only scientific survey ever conducted of attendances and staffing of PALCs. It provided information on the number of PALCs and their satellite centres (1569 and 657), the levels of instruction (ABET (49%), ABET and FET (46%) and FET only (5%)), the number of learners (270 703 of whom 162 900 were ABET learners and 125 791 FET (i.e. Senior Certificate) learners), and the number of staff (5 332 permanent and 8 296 temporary), as well as other demographic and descriptive information.

Keywords: adult basic education, FET, PALCs, research, statistics

Literacy in South Africa

Author: Prinsloo, M.
Date: 1999
Reference: Prinsloo, M. 1993. Literacy in South Africa. In: Wagner, D., Street, B. and Venezky, R. 1999. Literacy: An International Handbook. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, pp. 418-423

Description: A history of the development of literacy in South Africa

Keywords: literacy, adult education, history

The ambiguities of empowerment - a deconstructive approach to the adult education work of Edward Roux in the 1930sand 1940s and its implications for present conceptions of learner materials for Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET)

Author: Alexander, L.
Date: 19990315
Reference: Alexander, L. 1999. The ambiguities of empowerment - a deconstructive approach to the adult education work of Edward Roux in the 1930sand 1940s and its implications for present conceptions of learner materials for Adult Basic Education and Training (ABET). Rondebosch: University of Cape Town [Unpublished Masters dissertation]

Description: Examines Edward Roux's text-based adult education interventions in the 1940s and analyses them using postmodern discourse analysis methods and concludes that "Roux was committed to the Enlightenment ideal which he constructed in terms of Western educational and cultural norms. By conflating education with social remediation and rationalism, he proposed that education in its own right had socially redemptive power and that it would even result in equality." She also concludes that similar assumptions exist in three comparable genres of ABET in the 1990s.

Keywords: adult education, literacy, history, ideology

The Women's Handbook

Author: Centre for Adult Education
Date: 199906
Reference: Centre for Adult Education. 1999. The Women's Handbook. Pietermaritzburg: Centre for Adult Education, University of Natal

Description: Produced by the Centre for Adult Education, the Midland's Women's Group, and the Commission for Gender Equality and aimed at use in the Natal Midlands, this manual contains material on the following:

Who makes the rules?
Marriage and divorce
Homosexuality
Government grants and help for the aged and disabled
Police, courts and legal help
Death
Women and Violence
Women and Health
Children and Youth
Services
Women and work
Women and Transport
Land and Housing
Earning your own money
Consumer Issues
Women working together

An updated edition was published in 2004: The Women's Handbook. Second edition

Keywords: adult education, development, materials, women, health education

Easy readers for adults in South Africa: an investigation into their use

Author: Aitchison, J.J.W. (Ed.)
Date: 199909
Reference: Aitchison, J.J.W. (Ed.) 1999. Easy readers for adults in South Africa: an investigation into their use. Johannesburg: Easy Reading for Adult Initiative

Description: Based upon a stalled research project to which a number of people had contributed, this final document was compiled by John Aitchison in 1999. The report found that though a number of easy reading texts for adults had been generated the use of the resource was far from satisfactory because of a range of factors in adult education programmes, publishing, book development and language policy. The future prospects did not look promising.

Keywords: literacy, reading, adult education, adult basic education, policy, finance, materials, research, ideology

Thousands of books destroyed

Author: Eveleth, A.
Date: 19990923
Reference: Eveleth, A. 1999. Thousands of books destroyed. Mail & Guardian, 23 September 1990

Description: Article exposing the publishers' dumping of tons of unsold textbooks and easy readers consequent to a 76% decline in state funding of textbooks for schooling and adult education and failures in marketting and distribution. Another factor may have been the outcomes-based school Curriculum 2005 sometimes being interpreted as saying that new textbooks were needed or even that they were no longer necessary.

Keywords: reading, finance, policy, materials

Volunteerism in ABET: Can it work?

Author: Baatjes, I., John, V., and Aitchison, J.J.W.
Date: 19991030-31
Reference: Baatjes, I., John, V., and Aitchison, J.J.W. 2000. Volunteerism in ABET: Can it work? Paper presented at the Kenton 1999 Conference on Education and Globalization, 30 - 31 October 1999, Salt Rock Hotel, North Coast, KwaZulu-Natal

Description: A response to new Education Minister Kadar Asmal’s statements about eradicating adult illiteracy in five years partly through the use of volunteers, this paper argues that, with even the greatest level of political will, it is a mission impossible and instead proposes ways of how illiteracy could be addressed in a realistic way.

Keywords: literacy, adult basic education, research, plan, policy, NGOs

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