Report on review of the current status of the pilot Certificate in School Business Administration (CSBA) 2008-2009: Guidelines for CSBA 2010

摘要

Executive Summary: By almost any measure, most South African public schools, and schools in the WesternCape, are underperforming academically. For a number of years, there has existed a wide degree of consensus among educationstakeholders, and particular government, that the problems in our schools extendbeyond academic under-achievement. Massive budget allocations, overhaulingcurricular, restoring skewed learning resources, retraining educators and attempting todeal with the more pressing community problems and social ills that influence the resultsof a school are all necessary interventions. But, unless there is a concurrentimprovement of schools from a „business‟ management point of view, there is noguarantee that the resources allocated to schools, both materially and in the form ofeducators, will be optimally deployed.Principals need to be occupied with the tasks of managing and leading teaching andlearning i.e. instruction leadership, not managing routine administration. In recognisingthe potential of school administrative personnel to provide relief and support for theadministrative role of principals, the Western Cape Government initiated a trainingcourse – the CSBA – in July 2008 for school business administrators. The ground-breaking pilot programme was completed in February 2010. Thereafter theWCED commissioned an evaluation of the results achieved. The purpose of theevaluation is to inform the WCED‟s plans for development of the course going forward.This report represents a synopsis of the findings of the evaluation.