Question No. 290
Mr GG Boinamo (Democratic Alliance) to ask the Minister of Basic Education:
Whether her department intends establishing in-service training centres in each province to provide educators with refresher courses: if not, why not: if so, what are the relevant details?
Reply:
Such in-service training centres already exist in all provinces, and most provinces have more than one centre. The department is currently undertaking audit of all provincially and district run teacher development and education resource centres through which in-service training is provided.
The department, as part of a national planning process, is analysing this data to establish if sufficient centres exist to provide for the needs of practicing teachers, and to develop systems to better coordinate the planning, quality and delivery of teacher development programmes through the centres (including workshops, refresher courses, and in depth development courses).
Issued by: Department of Basic Education
19 February 2010
Source: Department of Education (http://www.education.gov.za/)
