SADTU reject criteria used for selection of markers and enforcement of performance contracts for principals and deputy principals in the Western Cape.
The Western Cape Provincial Executive Committee of SADTU has expressed outrage at the decision of the provincial department of education to unilaterally use competency testing as criteria for in the selection of matric markers in the province.
This action goes against the decision taken at the Inter Provincial Exams and Assessment Council (IPEAC) meeting that there should be no amendment to the existing assessment criteria until the matter was debated centrally at the Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC).
The meeting agreed that criteria as set out in the PAM for markers, was the only instrument to be used in the selection of markers and no province was allowed to expose teachers to a different assessment tool unless there was agreement at a national level.
Furthermore, SADTU Western Cape rejected the70% learner attainment in a subject as entry criteria for selection as a marker in Mathematics, Geography, Physical Science, Accounting and Life Science, etc.
SADTU has called on the WCED to withdraw the examination administration minute 0001/ 2011, circular but the department has refused to do so.