We provide education law and policy services and solutions to independent schools, public schools, online schools, home education and other stakeholders in the education sector.
Our focus:
Law and policy in Education
We deal with:
- QUESTIONS that arise from the NEXUS or INTERSECTION or INTERACTION between LAW and EDUCATION;
- ISSUES relating to POLICY and PRACTICE in EDUCATION, and
- the APPLICATION, INTERPRETATION and IMPLEMENTATION of HUMAN RIGHTS LAW in the EDUCATION SECTOR.
We provide our SERVICES through applying a MULTI DISCIPLINARY approach to PROBLEM SOLVING which involves intersecting LAW, EDUCATION and POLICY to reach intelligible, substantive and workable SOLUTIONS.
Our goal
To ensure that our Clients prepare for Education Law and Policy related Compliance, Quality & Risk Management matters through providing them with access to quality information, support with resolution of disputes, and participation in our training & development initiatives.
Our Clients:
- keep up to date with legislative and policy developments;
- have content knowledge in the area of education law and policy; and
- pro-actively and competently deal with education law and policy related matters.
Access to Education Law and Policy Services and Solutions and strategising for the implications and impact of law and policy in education:
- enhances the quality of inputs, throughputs and outputs for our Clients in particular and for the education sector in general; and
- improves the experience learners have in their learning environments.
Our Clients do not only avoid risk and damage to their reputation and good name, consequences which often arise from Education Law and Policy related issues, but they also obtain Quality Management.
Our values
– Integrity
– Equality
– Inclusivity
– Credibility
– Service
– Quality
– Efficiency
– Effectiveness
– Excellence
29TH CLAUSE
CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
29 Education
(1) Everyone has the right-
(a) to a basic education, including adult basic education; and
(b) to further education, which the state, through reasonable measures, must make progressively available and accessible.
(2) Everyone has the right to receive education in the official language or languages of their choice in public educational institutions where that education is reasonably practicable. In order to ensure the effective access to, and implementation of, this right, the state must consider all reasonable educational alternatives, including single medium institutions, taking into account-
(a) equity;
(b) practicability; and
(c) the need to redress the results of past racially discriminatory laws and practices.
(3) Everyone has the right to establish and maintain, at their own expense, independent educational institutions that-
(a) do not discriminate on the basis of race;
(b) are registered with the state; and
(c) maintain standards that are not inferior to standards at comparable public educational institutions.
(4) Subsection (3) does not preclude state subsidies for independent educational institutions.