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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

The 2023 planning calendar for schools (pdf, 91 KB)

Die skoolbeplanningskalender vir 2023 (pdf, 108 KB)

Ikhalenda yokucwangcisela izikolo yango-2023 (pdf, 92 KB)

2023 Planning Calendar for Schools (dat, 197 KB)

Skoolbeplanningskalender vir 2023 (dat, 197 KB)

Ikhalenda yokucwangcisela izikolo yango-2023 (dat, 197 KB)

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

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