The effectiveness of school governing bodies in Gauteng public school

M.Ed.Everyone in South Africa is keenly aware of and concerned about the massive educational changes. There is little doubt about the dominant role that change has played in our organisations and this has brought along many challenges of which education was the most distinctive. The introduction of a democratic school governing system was implemented. The main idea or intention was that such a governing system should systematically improve the culture of teaching and learning in schools and that schools should be gradually be transformed. Even though democratic elected governing bodies are in place, there is however a great lack of governor competence, especially amongst the parent component of the governing body. The Department of Education did not take cognisance of the important role of effective and sufficient training of members serving on school governing bodies. There is great concern that school governing bodies are not effective in executing their governance functions as prescribed by the South African Schools Act of 1996. The aim of this study is thus to investigate the effectiveness of school governing bodies in Gauteng public schools. The quantitative research method was used in order to engage the questionnaire as a research instrument. The sample consisted of primary and secondary schools in the Johannesburg North District (D10) of Gauteng