Pretoria - The Northern Cape provincial government has set aside R20.4 million for a capacity building programme for teachers.
A total of 108 educators will study towards Bachelor of Education degrees in three different streams.
According to the province's acting Premier, Grizelda Cjiekella, this is to ensure quality teaching and learning.
Delivering the State of the Province Address at the legislature on Wednesday, Cjiekella said the provincial government had entered into a four-year capacity building programme for teachers with the Sishen Iron Ore Community Development Trust and Rhodes University.
In a bid to ensure quality teaching and learning, Cjiekella said the provincial government was able to provide schools with learner and educator workbooks for grades 1 - 6 in 2011.
"As government, we continue to ensure that all our learners have access to quality workbooks. We will increase the support and monitoring of schools on the usage of these workbooks."
Cjiekella said the province is also piloting the HeyMath Project in 100 schools across the province.
The project is a curriculum and ITC integrated initiative aimed at changing the culture of teaching and learning of mathematics and participating schools have been given computerised maths programmes to enhance the learning of mathematics.
Cjiekella said the provincial government would continue to invest in Early Childhood Development (ECD) as it was a solid foundation that sets the tone for how learners perform in higher grades.
In 2011, a total of 10 183 full-time candidates wrote the National Senior Certificate examination in the Northern Cape. The overall pass rate for 2011 was 68.8 percent, which is a decrease of 3.5 percent compared to the pass rate of 72.3 percent in 2010.
