APPROVED LCP4809 ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED ANSWERS Semester 1 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED

LCP4809 Assignment 1 (DETAILED ANSWERS) Semester 1 2024 - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED - DISTINCTION GUARANTEED. ADMIN [COMPANY NAME] 1. Please submit this assignment as a pdf document. 2. Reference the reasons for your answers using the OSCOLA method of referencing. 3. The assignment counts 40 marks. Indicate whether the following questions are true or false AND provide a reason for your answer. Question 1 A code of conduct can be defined as a statement of intent, specifying the basic principles to be pursued in attaining specific goals. Question 2 Subsidiarity should be used as a trade-off for effective government, because subsidiarity and effectiveness conflict with each other in a co-operative government system. Question 3 Unless authorised by the principal for legitimate educational purposes, no person may bring a dangerous object or illegal drug onto school premises or have such object or drug in his or her possession on school premises or during any school activity. Question 4 Every Member of the Executive Council (MEC) must by notice in the Government Gazette, determine the ages of compulsory school attendance for learners with special education needs. Question 5 In one of your prescribed readings, the author states that further education is an open-ended concept that includes all forms of education above basic education. Question 6 The Amended National Norms and Standards for Schools Funding GN 394 in GG 40818 of 28 April 2017 constitutes provincial policy. Question 7 Bray remarks that the most important legal source for determining the legal position of the school in a public education system is legislation. Question 8 In The Western Cape Minister of Education v The Governing Body of Mikro Primary School 2005 (10) BCLR 973 (SCA), the Court, relying on Directory Advertising Cost Cutters v Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting 1996 (3) SA 800 (T), held that a school is not an organ of state because the legislature intended it to be independent of state or government control in the performance of its functions. Question 9 Out of funds appropriated for this purpose by the provincial legislature, the Head of Department (HoD) must establish a programme to (a) provide introductory training for newly elected governing bodies to enable them to perform their functions; and (b) provide continuing training to governing bodies to promote the effective performance of their functions or to enable them to assume additional functions. Question 10 One of the authors of the prescribed literature for this module mentions that when a school governing body suspends a learner, it must have the necessary authority to do so and it must comply with relevant legislative and customary law requirements. Question 1: True A code of conduct can be defined as a statement of intent, specifying the basic principles to be pursued in attaining specific goals. (Author, Year, Page) Question 2: False Subsidiarity should not be used as a trade-off for effective government. Subsidiarity is a principle that suggests that decisions should be made at the most local level possible. This does not necessarily conflict with effectiveness in a cooperative government system. (Author, Year, Page) Question 3: True Unless authorized by the principal for legitimate educational purposes, no person may bring a dangerous object or illegal drug onto school premises or have such object or drug in his or her possession on school premises or during any school activity. (Author, Year, Page) Question 4: True Every Member of the Executive Council (MEC) must, by notice in the Government Gazette, determine the ages of comp