Education receives priority in Western Cape budget

By Odette Ismail
07 March 2007

Western Cape education MEC Cameron Dugmore has welcomed the amount allocated to the education sector after finance Minister Lynne Brown announced her provincial budget.

The minister announced yesterday that education will receive the biggest share, of up to 37% of the total budget.

Brown said yesterday that emphasis would be placed on skills development, teacher development, salaries for teachers as well as administrative personnel and the provision of infrastructure.

Dugmore says, "The additional funds fro teacher development, incentives, schools principals, administrative capacity and extra resources to strengthen our district management capacity, gives us real hope to parents, teachers and schools.”

He says in a statement that the money will go towards building up human capital in the province and to further establish quality education.

However, Dugmore says infrastructure still remains a challenge.