History
Vision and Mission
Education Development Division (EDD)
EDD’s mission is to achieve sustainable systemic education improvement through strong partnership and evidence-based interventions.
EDD works to strengthen the capacity of education institutions and departments to deliver quality education to children and youth, concentrating on system-level planning and enhancing the capacity of the education system to integrate planning and delivery.
EDD’s work is underpinned by three key concerns:
· Tackling educational challenges systemically with a view to sustainability
· Forming partnerships with key stakeholders to ensure projects are embedded and taken forward
· Using evidence to guide planning and to measure success
In the school improvement arena, it focuses on developing and testing systemic education development models that provide replicable solutions to the national education challenges. It makes use of a school improvement model developed on the basis of previous experience and lessons learnt implementing the large scale, multi-year systemic Khanyisa school improvement projectin Limpopo. EDD’s current flagship school development projects in the North West and Eastern Cape provinces provide further examples of this work.
In the post-school arena, EDD’s focus is on youth transitions from school-to-work and the particular role of FET Colleges in enhancing youth employability. Working together with the new Department of Higher Education and Training, it seeks to demonstrate models of college effectiveness that can ensure a sufficient and sustainable pipeline of skilled young people for the labour market.
EDD’s activities include:
1. Designing and implementing education development demonstration projects focusing on schools and FET colleges.
2. Providing education improvement tools and strategies for education institutions and their communities.
3. Developing the education planning task with a view to improve the planning function in the education subsystems, namely education departments, districts, circuits, FET colleges and schools.
For further information Contact Anthony Gewer: agewer@jet.org.za
