| Organisation |
Ministry of Education |
| Alternate Name |
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| Abbreviation |
DoE |
| Parent |
Government of South Africa |
| u.r.l. |
www.education.gov.za |
| email |
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| Country |
South Africa |
| Location |
Pretoria |
| Address |
Sol Plaatje House, 123 Schoeman Street, Pretoria, 0001 |
| Postal Address |
P Bag X895 |
| Telephone |
(012) 312 5911 |
| Management u.r.l. |
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| Fax |
(012) 321 6770 |
| Sector |
Education Ministries |
| Organisation Type |
African Government |
| Status |
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| Stated Role |
To provide leadership in the construction of a South African education and training system for the 21st century. <P>- Making our provincial system work by making co-operative government work. <P>- Breaking the back of illiteracy among adults and youths in five years. <P>- Developing schools as centres of community life. <P>- Ending conditions of physical degradation in South African schools. o Developing the professional quality of our teaching force. <P>- Ensuring the success of active learning through outcomes-based education. <P>- Creating a vibrant further education and training system to equip youth and adults to meet the social and economic needs of the 21st century. <P>- Building a rational, seamless higher education system that grasps the intellectual and professional challenges facing South Africans in the 21st century. <P>- Dealing urgently and purposefully with the HIV/AIDS emergency in and through the education and training system. |
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