Documents

WCED Circulars

Official directives or notices from the Head of the Western Cape Education Department to schools, parents, and departmental structures.

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0037: Dates and time frames for applications for admission to ordinary public schools and the management of school admission information for 2024/25

0036: Management of progression and promotion appeals

0035: Criteria for the 2023 National Senior Certificate Awards

0034: Provision of 2024 teaching staff establishments for ordinary public and special schools

0033: 2023 Year-end functions and time off for Head Office and district office employees

0032: Education Safety Management Standard Operating Procedure to be followed relating to the procurement of goods and services for Safe Schools

0031: Procedure for capturing and reporting on learner attendance

0030: Special mark adjustment and condonation dispensation for learners in Grades 4–9

0029: Introduction of the Safe Schools Logging and Tracking System

0028: Condonation granted for the conversion appointment of post level 1 educators

0027: Permission for the IEC to use schools on state property during national and local government elections

Permission for the IEC to use schools on state property during national and local government elections (pdf, 94 KB)

Verlof aan die OVK om skole op staatseiendom gedurende die nasionale en plaaslike regeringsverkiesings te gebruik (pdf, 115 KB)

Imvume yokuba i-IEC isebenzise izikolo ezikwipropathi karhulumente ngethuba lonyulo lukarhulumente kazwelonke kunye nabasemakhaya (national and local government elections) (pdf, 143 KB)

0026: Grade R subsidies and other related matters as of 01 April 2024

0025: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI) within the basic education sector – end of Phase IV and extension of contracts

0024: The 2024 planning calendar for schools

0023: Leave of absence arrangements during the SANTACO taxi strike and related civil unrest from 04 to 10 August 2023 (unrest period)

0022: Information about PFMA SCM Instruction No. 06 of 2022/2023 and PFMA SCM Instruction No. 07 of 2022/2023

0021: Implementation of the Western Cape Government (WCG) Workplace Harassment Policy

0020: Non-section 21 schools: Norms and standards funding for schools Grades 1–12 — financial allocations for the 2024/25 financial year

0019: Section 21 schools: Norms and standards funding for schools Grades 1–12 — financial allocations for the 2024/25 financial year

0018: Final timetable for the November 2023 National Senior Certificate examinations

0017: Standard Operating Procedure for governing body infrastructure related projects

0016: Salaries and benefits of and stipend payments to Grade R educators and practitioners

0015: Protocol for managing and reporting sexual misconduct

0014: WCED framework for payments to schools/other government institutions

0013: Compensation for school fee exemptions

0012: Violence against employees by learners and community members whilst on duty

0011: Increase in amounts payable for boarding, transport and private boarding subsidies and personnel subsidies to hostels and ordinary public schools

0010: School attendance by Grades 4-12 learners during and after the 2023 June and November school-based internal examination and assessment periods

0009: PYEI within the basic education sector - audit preparation (Phases III and IV)

0008: Implementation of the new leave of absence form (H.1) for school-based educators

0007: Adherence to the agreed-upon and approved staggered working hours for office-based employees

0006: May/June 2023 examination timetable and arrangements for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) and Senior Certificate (SC) examinations

0005: Operations management (office closure) during the 2023 festive period

0004: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI): Phase IV Financial guideline

0003: The capturing of the textbooks issued at the end of the first school term and those retrieved during the last school term of each year and the need to ensure accurate record keeping and reporting on textbook retention and...

0002: General Education and Training: Year 4 interim report card for learners attending Schools of Skill

0001: Vetting officials against the National Register for Sexual Offences

Circulars 1995 - 2002