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Our vision is to mobilise business, government and civil society to work collaboratively towards meeting the educational challenges facing South Africa. The S@CC initiative speaks to the idea that enhancing the quality of education, improving the school environment and encouraging engagement between parents and teachers are meaningful and attainable goals that would provide an upward spiral of real change in society. S@CC is committed to realising the Third Dinokeng Scenario: Walking Together. This scenario envisions a future for South Africa marked by collaboration, engagement and active citizenship, in which multiple sectors work together in support of a better South Africa.

'Keeping data secure, safe and legal' is an introductory document that aims to distil the key messages outlined in Data Handling Procedures in Government so they are applicable to schools and is intended for school leaders, senior leadership teams, network managers and other members of staff who have responsibility for handling and securing data.

South African vice-chancellors warned the government to expect more students to drop out, following the shocking results of pilot national benchmark tests.

It now possible for teachers in South Africa to receive a subsidy to purchase a laptop. Full details my be found in a Government Gazette published on Friday, 8 May 2009. Teachers may have many questions about owning a laptop. This page serves as a point of reference to some of these questions.

SA SAMS is a robust computer application specifically designed to meet the management, administrative and governance needs of public schools in Southern Africa. The programme has a strong EMIS focus to assist schools in the completion of the Annual School Survey.

To enhance governance and service delivery through the use of knowledge as a fundamental resource in development and establish KM platforms to create access to existing networks and to facilitate the sharing and utilisation of knowledge.

This updated report continues to: * Benchmark the status of women's participation in public sector SET * Inform the activities of SET4W * Inform planners and policy makers within government, higher education and SET institutions in terms of initiatives for women in the SET sector.

Several problems - including teachers with bad credit records - have left government plans to equip all 400000 teachers with a laptop computer and software hanging in the air.

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Thought about answering but then I would have had to stop laughing. But quite worrying as well if this is were we are at. Read through all the comments.