1. The Western Cape Education Department identified certain schools to be focus schools, an initiative aimed at providing access to excellence in various educational fields.
2. The schools are to ensure excellence in the nurturing and comprehensive development of learners with talent, interest or aptitude. The focus schools are to serve as pathfinders and lead institutions in their educational fields. In addition, the focus schools are to provide young people with the attitude, social and intellectual skills for nation building and economic development.
3. The specific aims of the project are the following:
  • Increasing access and participation of learners, especially previously disadvantaged learners, in the Further Education and Training (FET) band
  • Expanding the number of FET learners who qualify to enter higher education
  • Empowering people by equipping them with skills needed in the marketplace
  • Developing youth role models
4. The list of schools is attached, and schools are invited to contact Mr Eldrid Petersen at elpeters@pgwc.gov.za or Wayne Lawrence at walawren@pgwc.gov.za. Further information can be obtained from the website: http://curriculum.pgwc.gov.za.


SIGNED: M. CAMERON
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2007:08:07

List of Focus Schools  (size: 12 KB)