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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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0048: 27 December 2022 declared as a national public holiday

0047: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI) within the basic education sector – Phase IV: new data management system

0046: Year-end functions and time off for Head Office and district office employees in 2022

0045: Improvements in conditions of service for employees on salary levels 1 to 12 and those covered by Occupation Specific Dispensations: Cost of living adjustment – 01 April 2022

0044: Policy on the Acceptance of Gifts by Office-based Officials of the Western Cape Education Department

0043: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI) within the basic education sector - Phase IV: Resource Pack

0042: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI) within the basic education sector - Phase IV

0041: Grade R subsidies and other related matters as of 01 April 2023

0040: Criteria for the 2022 National Senior Certificate Awards

0039: 2022 Special mark adjustment and condonation dispensation for learners in Grades 4–9

0038: Standard Operating Procedure (SOP): issuing, retention, retrieval, and ordering of textbooks by schools

0037: Dates and time frames for applications for admission to ordinary public schools and the management of school admission information for 2023/2024

0036: Appointment of unqualified educators

0035: Process to be followed for the progressive universalisation of Grade R

0034: Leave arrangements for institution based educators pertaining to incidences of monkeypox infection

0033: Non-section 21 schools: Norms and standards funding for schools Grades 1–12 — financial allocations for the 2023/24 financial year

0032: Section 21 schools: Norms and standards funding for schools Grades 1–12 — financial allocations for the 2023/24 financial year

0031: Amendments to the South African Schools Act which grant usage rights to governing bodies in respect of the school’s immovable property

0030: School attendance by Grades 4 to 11 learners during and after the 2022 November school-based assessment period

0029: The 2023 planning calendar for schools

0028: Amended final timetable for the November 2022 National Senior Certificate examinations

0027: Provision of 2023 teaching staff establishments for special public schools

0026: Provision of 2023 teaching staff establishments for ordinary public schools

0025: Amended final timetable for the November 2022 National Senior Certificate examinations

0024: Submission of requisitions

0023: Education Safety Management Standard Operational Procedures to be followed relating to emergency security procurement

Education Safety Management Standard Operational Procedures to be followed relating to emergency security procurement (pdf, 97 KB)

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0022: Final timetable for the November 2022 National Senior Certificate examinations

0021: Revised procedures for official gatherings arranged for Head Office and district offices

0020: Employee transfer process

0019: Recruitment and selection of institution-based public service employees

0018: Reminder: Online admissions system as the ONLY official system or form to be used by schools for admission to ordinary public schools in the Western Cape

0017: Presidential Youth Employment Initiative (PYEI): Phase III – Financial guideline

0016: Confirmation of Dramatic Arts Annual Programme of Assessment (POA) For SBA 2022 for Grades 10-12

0015: Operations management (office closure) during the 2022 festive period

0014: Provision of 2022/2023 public service support staff establishments to ordinary public and special needs public schools

0013: May/June 2022 examination timetable and arrangements for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) and Senior Certificate (SC) examinations

0012: Implementation of Phase III of the Presidential Employment Initiative Project (PYEI)

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

0010: Compensation for school fee exemptions

0009: Standard Operating Procedure for the Language Services Unit

0008: Suspension of the restriction on the use of debit cards by schools

0007: Rollout of electronic payslips (ePayslips) – Phase two

0006: Adult Education and Training Level 4 examination timetables for June 2022 and November 2022

0005: 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...

0004: Annual leave dispensation for Institution-based Public Service Staff (IB PSS)

0003: Revised Records Management Policy: Western Cape Education Department

0002: Privacy Policy template for public schools in terms of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (Act 4 of 2013)

0001: The role of a minor who is an enfranchised member of a governing body

Circulars 1995 - 2002