SUBJECT: 2014 STAFF ESTABLISHMENTS OF SPECIAL ORDINARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Reference: IMS: 16089
Enquiries: Circuit Team Manager
File: 7/1B
Circular: 0039/2013
Expiry date: None
To: Deputy Directors-General, Chief Directors, Directors Chief Education Specialists, Circuit
Team Managers, IMG Managers and Heads of Educational institutions
Brief summary: Provision of 2014 teacher staff establishments to special ordinary public schools
SUBJECT: 2014 STAFF ESTABLISHMENTS OF SPECIAL ORDINARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1. 2014 STAFF ESTABLISHMENTS
1.1 The 2014 staff establishments of special public schools have been determined in terms of
the revised post-provisioning norms approved by the Heads of Education Committee in
2007, and in terms of the Western Cape Education Department (WCED)'s recommended
norms agreed upon in 2007 with the teacher unions and school governing body
associations.
1.2 The teacher establishments for 2014 will be published on CEMIS (Central Education
Management Information System) under the folder Administration (Establishments)
on 23 August 2013.
2. MEASURES (BROAD PRINCIPLES)
2.1 POST STRUCTURE
The post structure and descriptions contained in Collective Agreement 4/2003 of the
Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) are applicable to teacher staff establishments.
2.2 SCHOOL GRADINGS
Schools are graded according to the School Grading Norms contained in ELRC Collective
Agreement 3 of 2006. Please also see paragraph 2.1 above.
2.3 EXPIRY OF POSTS ON 31 DECEMBER 2013
In terms of the measures of the Revised Post Distribution Model, special public schools must
be issued with their annual teacher staff establishments before the end of September of
the preceding year. Thus, for the 2013 academic year, all teacher posts issued additional to
the fixed staff establishments of special public schools will expire on the 31 December 2013.
3. FILLING OF ADVERTISED POSTS
3.1 All posts that have already been advertised in a departmental Vacancy List may be filled
permanently, provided that the post appears on the 2014 teacher staff establishment.
3.2 Should an advertised post not appear on the 2014 teacher staff establishment, the school is
not entitled to that post and such a post will be regarded as erroneously advertised.
3.3 The stipulation that an advertised post (particularly a promotion post) may be filled only if it
does not create a teacher in excess, remains in place.
3.4 Should a school principal and governing body be of the opinion that the post description
of the advertised post no longer meets the curriculum needs of the school, they may
request the WCED to regard the post as erroneously advertised. A detailed explanation
must accompany such a request.
4. TEACHERS IN EXCESS
4.1 Teachers, who have already been declared in excess, based on previous establishments
and in accordance with previous processes, and who are still in excess, retain their inexcess status. These teachers will be dealt with in terms of the prevailing collective
agreements of the ELRC.
4.2 These teachers in excess may be absorbed into vacancies in the new staff establishment
by way of matching and placing.
4.3 Permanently appointed teachers must be identified as in excess in terms of ELRC Collective
Agreement 2 of 2003.
4. ENQUIRIES
Kindly address all enquiries pertaining to this circular (measures, etc.) to the relevant circuit
team manager.
5. GENERAL
Please bring the contents of this circular to the attention of all teachers and school
governing body members.
SIGNED: PA VINJEVOLD
HEAD: EDUCATION
DATE: 2013-08-22
Lower Parliament Street, Cape Town, 8001 Private Bag X9114, Cape Town, 8000
tel: +27 21 467 2000 fax: +27 21 467 2996 Employment and salary enquiries: 0861 92 33 22
Safe Schools: 0800 45 46 47
www.westerncape.gov.za
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