The National School of Government (NSG) cannot function independently and self sustainably without heavily relying on the national budget allocations, says Public Service and Administration Minister, Ms Noxolo Kiviet.

In her answer submitted for oral reply, but now placed for written reply in the National Assembly, Minister Kiviet said: “the NSG depends heavily on the national allocation for its operations as it operates the Vote Account and Training Trading Account (TTA).

“The Vote Account receives its funding from the government fiscus whereas the TTA is partly funded from government fiscus through a transfer from the Vote Account and revenue generated from course fees.

“The allocation from the government fiscus is appropriated for the operation of the Vote Account to support the TTA,” she said.

According to the Minister, the funding from the fiscus does not cover the operational costs of the TTA since this account is funded from course fees including the costs relating to the design and development of training programmes, as well as the delivery of the training programmes.

The scope of work of the NSG has been expanded to provide Education, Training and Development (ETD) in the three spheres of government, state-owned entities (SOEs) and organs of state.

Minister Kiviet added that the delivery of the mandatory programmes, professionalisation initiatives that introduce the offering of qualifications, continuous development and increased online learning add to the NSG scope of work.

“The National Framework Towards Professionalisation of the Public Sector requires the NSG to establish Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Centre as well as campus environment with relevant technology. The NSG is finalising a new strategy to reposition itself as the premier provider of ETD,” she said.

The total number of public officials who have successfully completed the compulsory courses.

The following are Compulsory Training Programmes with statistics from 2021/22 financial year until 05 September 2023:

Compulsory Training Programmes Financial Year
2021/22 2022/23 2023/2024 (1 April to 5 September 2023)
Khaedu Project 571 399 61
Ethics in the Public Service 32 381 13 765 2 460
Executive Induction Programme 21 21 0 (7 booked)
Compulsory Induction Programme 13-14 159 217 72
Compulsory Induction Programme

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5 393 5731 911
Nyukela 6 832 5 440 2 096
Supply Chain Management for the Public Service 260 798 217
Financial Management Delegations of Authority 84 0 0
Re-orientation in the Public Service 177 374 202
Managing Performance in the Public Service 37 1 386 0