Proteus has partnered with several school operating partners, including Common Good Foundation, Education Ally , Axium Education and Thuto Themba. Proteus contributes to the growth of these organisations, supporting them with strategy, operational efficiency and organisational culture. The outcome is the development of thriving teams that provide excellent support to schools. From start-up to scale, Proteus has enjoyed long term partnerships enabling them to deliver outstanding results.
In 2016, the Western Cape Education Department, under the leadership of Minister Debbie Schafer and with support from the Education Partnerships Group, sought to address the issues of quality arising from poor governance, leadership and teaching in these communities with the introduction of Collaboration Schools, a partnership between the Department and non-profit operators, designed to increase funding, governance and management capacity to no-fee government schools, which will remain non-selective.
This model has been piloted for eight years and now spans 14 schools and 7 operating partners. Collaboration Schools introduce support from ‘school operating partners’, which are non-profit education organisations committed to improve the quality of teaching and overall learning outcomes for children.
In our work with school operating partners we aim to support Public School Partnerships in building the capacity of school operating organisations to enable them to run schools within the Collaboration Schools programme and help them to achieve and sustain excellent learning outcomes for students.
We work together with Axium Education, Common Good, Education Ally and Thuto Themba – supporting them with:
Proteus has just agreed contracts with each of these operators to provide ongoing strategic, advisory, operational and organisational development for 2024. We will continue to partner with each of these organisations as they look to expand their reach and deepen their impact in the South African education sector.
