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The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has received numerous telephone calls from school principals who have indicated that the writing of Section A of the Common Tasks for Assessment (CTAs) in term 3 of 2009 would create many difficulties as their school programmes for the third term have already been decided upon and communicated to learners and parents. |
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Furthermore, the WCED has, to date, not received the full package of the CTAs from the national Department of Education (DoE). |
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A decision has now been taken within the WCED for Section A of the CTAs to be written in term 4 of 2009, as was the case in previous years. |
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Section B of the CTAs will also be written in term 4, in accordance with a compulsory timetable set by the DoE. The proposed dates for the writing of Section B are from 16 - 30 November 2009. |
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According to the DoE, as from 2010, Section A of the CTAs will be administered in term 2. |
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Education districts, curriculum managers and principals are kindly requested to bring the content of this minute to the attention of all concerned. |
SIGNED: TINA SINGH
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2009:05:21
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