IPEB started in 1995 advocating for the partnerships with business as a key development strategy. A Bachelor of Education Honours programme with partnerships as a key theme was developed, accredited by the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and taught to over 200 practising educators.
IPEB has worked with school management teams, been the lead service provider on a major USAID project developing school management manuals, delivering them to all 6,000 schools in KwaZulu-Natal and training 200 education officials in the use of these manuals. IPEB has facilitated 3 stakeholder education forums for the KZN MEC of Education, facilitated both ABET and Early Childhood Development (ECD) izimbizo. IPEB has facilitated Art Competitions and a Career’s Week for the high schools in KwaZulu-Natal.
IPEB is working with the Office of the Premier providing technical support to the Office on the Rights of the Child in developing structures at provincial and local municipality levels to promote and monitor service delivery to children. IPEB is also working with the ECD Learning Community to develop a national advocacy strategy to promote awareness of the importance of the pre-school years to social and economic development.
The current focus is on consolidating its work on strategic issues relating to the children’s sector.
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COMPETITION
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2009 Competition update
The winners of the 2009 PEO Grade R Competition will be announced in the April 2010 edition of the Teacher and thereafter for the next few months the Teacher will be featuring some of the successful teachers and schools.
The finalists have been selected and those schools are being visited by people from the selection committee. The selection committee is comprised of individuals from the RedCap Foundation, the Teacher, AfriSam, the KwaZulu-Natal ECD Technical Committee, the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education and the organisers of the competition, IPEB.
The names will be announced in The Teacher and will not be disclosed by the organisers of the competition.
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