Common use of Delivery Agreement Clause in Contracts

Delivery Agreement. For Outcome 1: Improved quality of basic education At a fundamental level, a challenge for the basic education sector is to accept that certain things must change in the interests of the future of South Africa and that there cannot be ‘business as usual’. However, this is not the same as saying that there needs to be fundamental change to the system of policies governing schools. As the 2008 review of South Africa’s education sector by the OECD points out, South Africa has done relatively well, compared to other countries, when it comes to ensuring that the key basic policies needed for quality schooling are in place. Certain policies, such as the national curriculum, require critical changes. But essentially the challenge is one of making the current system run better. Policy change should only occur where this is critically necessary. As many South Africans have argued and the OECD has confirmed, there is policy change fatigue in the schooling system. People do not want the rules and procedures changed radically unless there are compelling reasons for doing so. Lastly, several reviews, including the OECD review, the 2009 curriculum review and a 2009 UNICEF review of school financing and management, have argued that a large part of the problem with existing policies is that they are not communicated well to the people who should implement them or benefit from them and that occasionally policies appear to contradict each other. Packaging and advocating policies better is a matter that requires serious attention.