Western Cape

Acorn Education

Acorn Education supports no-fee public schools to provide high quality education. As a school operating partner in the Western Cape Collaboration schools project, Acorn provides an all-encompassing support to its schools. This support includes all aspects of day-to-day management from financial and operational matters to instructional leadership, educator development and learner enrichment.

Acorn’s whole-school approach includes

a) extended school days,
b) online personalised learning programmes,
c) holistic learner development,
d) school leadership and teacher development and
e) governance and operations.

For more information refer to https://acorneducation.org.za/.

Public Schools Partnerships Programme (PSP)

PSP as a collaborative programme between government, donors and non-profit school operating partners, aims to achieve a system-wide improvement in the quality of public schools servicing children from poor communities by giving selected government schools the same level of leadership and management flexibility that is accorded to independent schools; harnessing strong managerial resources that currently reside outside of the public education system, and concentrating those resources in underperforming schools and in schools serving marginalise communities and embedding a robust accountability framework so that government is able to track the performance of PSP schools. The group of funding organisations entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Western Cape Education Department to pilot “Collaboration Schools”, that will strengthen the quality of public schools, demonstrate effective models public-schools improvement, strengthen public school governance models, develop educators, and implement interventions to improve the quality of public education for learners from the poorest communities in the Western Cape.

For more information refer to https://dgmt.co.za/tag/public-school-partnership/.

Systemic Diagnostic Assessments: RESEP

RESEP is a group of researchers in the Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University with a well-established track record in researching the economics of education and the quantitative analysis of education data. They have supported the Western Cape Education Department to analyse the loss of learning and other consequences for learning due to the loss of schooling days during COVID19.

For more information refer to https://resep.sun.ac.za/.

Tygerberg International Eisteddfod

Tygerberg International Eisteddfod is an annual Eisteddfod in the Western Cape. The donation from Millennium Trust will be used to sponsor disadvantaged choirs to participate at the Eisteddfod.