Mission, Vision & Values

Vision
A caring and supportive community for excellence in Basic Education.

Mission
To protect and promote the right of every LEARNER to quality, equitable, culture-based, and complete basic education where:

• Learners learn in a child-friendly, gender-sensitive, safe, and motivating environment;
• Teachers facilitate learning and constantly nurture every learner;
• Administrative staff ensure an enabling and supportive environment for effective learning and teaching; and
• Family, community, and other stakeholders are actively engaged and share responsibility to support and inculcate life-long learning.

Values
Key corporate values the  North West Department of Education (NW DOE) intend to comply with include:

• Inclusion – We recognise diversity for redress and equity
• Excellence – We move beyond compliance by going an extra mile
• Integrity – We respond to our fellow employees and other stakeholders with honesty, fairness and respect
• Transparency – We are open in our functions and operations for public interest and comment
• Innovation – We will continually strive for better and new ways of doing things
• Empathy – We appreciate the context in which people operate and express themselves
• Accountability – We take responsibility of the consequences of our actions

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