SUCCESS STORIES/PROGRESS PROFILES

USAID SOUTH AFRICA TECHNICALLY ADJUSTED EDUCATION STRATEGY

INTEGRATED EDUCATION PROGRAM (IEP)

THE TERTIARY EDUCATION LINKAGES PROJECT (TELP)

Integrated Education Program (IEP)

A contract was signed in March 2004 with Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to implement USAID South Africa’s new Integrated Education Program (IEP).  The objectives of the IEP are as follows:

• enhanced capacity of teachers (targeted to the teaching of literacy, numeracy, mathematics and science);
• effective implementation of the Revised National Curriculum Statement (RNCS), with a focus on literacy, numeracy, mathematics and science curriculum; 
• improved educational management and enhanced school governance;
• integration of HIV/AIDS issues into the curricula and teaching;
• increased numbers of mathematics and science teachers trained through pre-service programs; and
• support to the provincial and national Departments of Education through the implementation of “special activities.”

To achieve these objectives the following lower level results, or outputs, must be reached:

• Increased subject matter knowledge for teachers in the areas of numeracy and literacy (grades 1 -3) and mathematics and science (grades 4 – 9) in the selected schools in the four target provinces of KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, and the Eastern and Northern Cape Provinces;
• Increased subject matter knowledge for teachers in the areas of mathematics and science (grades 10-12) in the targeted schools in the Northern Cape Province participating in the pilot program during first two years of the project;
• Enhanced assessment skills for basic education teachers in the selected schools in the four targeted provinces;
• Enhanced assessment skills for teachers (grades 10-12) in the targeted high schools in the Northern Cape participating in the pilot program during the first two years of the project;
• Increased knowledge, teaching and administrative skills, and effective implementation by administrators and teachers of mathematics and science curricula embodied in the RNCS in the selected basic education schools in the four targeted provinces;
• Increased awareness of HIV/AIDS issues through integration into the curricula, and teaching and learning;
• Improved management systems for educational institutions and improved administrative and managerial skills for personnel at the national, provincial, and district levels and in selected basic education schools in the four targeted provinces;
• Increased participation by communities in the governance of selected basic education schools in the four targeted provinces;
• Increased participation in pre-service teacher training programs emphasizing mathematics and science knowledge and skills;
• Special results to be achieved as targets of opportunity, consistent with the program objectives, as they may arise.

RTI has a new web page for the IEP under construction which will soon be available.  Further information is available at RTI’s international web page:  www.rti.org

Tertiary Education Linkages Project

United Negro College Fund Special Programs Corporation has entered into a contract with the United States Agency for International Development to manage the Tertiary Education Linkages Program (TELP) in South Africa.  The purpose of the contract is to increase the institutional capacity of South Africa's 17 Historically Disadvantaged Universities and Technikons (HDIs) and to assist the Government of South Africa to implement its national higher education policy. This purpose will be achieved through results in four areas:

• HDI Joint Activities
• Linkage Grants to U.S. Institutions
• HDI Institution Specific Activities
• Policy Implementation and Systems Development

The HDIs involved with TELP are:

• Border Technikon
  
• Eastern Cape Technikon
  
• M.L. Sultan Technikon
  
• Mangosuthu Technikon
  
• Peninsula Technikon
  
• Technikon Northern Gauteng
  
• Technikon North-West
  
• MEDUNSA
  
• University of Durban Westville
  
• University of Fort Hare
  
• University of North-West
  
• University of the North
  
• University of Transkei
  
• University of Venda
  
• University of the Western Cape
  
• University of Zululand
  
• Vista University>

For more information about the TELP Project, visit the following website:  www.uncf.org.za