This World Refugee Week, let’s not forget the importance of skills development and recognition for migrants and refugees. Read more about JET’s scoping study for the ILO and IGAD on The Potential of Skills Development and Recognition for Regulated Labour Mobility in the IGAD Region.
We note with sadness the passing of Adrienne Bird.
Celebrating World Youth Skills Day on 15 July: Applications are open for UNESCO-UNEVOC Skills in Action Photo Competition 2019
JETStreaming programme aims to build social justice change agents focusing on education research through a combination of experiential workplace involvement and collaborative training processes.
JET Education Services a part of the Anglo American South Africa Education (AASA) programme which improves literacy, numeracy, mathematics, and English levels by addressing some of the underlying reasons for poor education outcomes.
by Melanie Ehren, James Keevy and Tom Kaye
NASCEE - National Association of Social Change Entities in Education launch conference
NPOs Working in Education: From Promise to Practice
Read this op-ed by JET researcher Zaahedah Vally
An article by Dr. Nick Taylor of JET, Dr. Gabrielle Wills of Research on Socio-Economic Policy (ReSEP), University of Stellenbosch, and Prof. Ursula Hoadley of the School of Education at the University of Cape Town.
First NASCEE Newsletter published
A skilled and adaptable workforce is critical for a country's economic prosperity and development, especially considering technological changes, changes in the nature of work and changes in the labour market.
Growing our future through education in agriculture and nutrition; Improving school food gardens; Supporting food security through inquiry-based learning; Development through (em)power(ed) relationships.
"The Investors in People Awards recognises the people and teams that make the difference every day highlighting excellence from across the Investors in People global community".
An Association for NPOs in Education
The Regional Local Economic Development Initiative (RLEDI) of the Graduate School of Business and Leadership (GSB&L) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, in collaboration with the Education KwaZulu-Natal Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (KZN EDTEA), invites submission for Volume 9 of Skills@Work: Theory and Practice.
Co-authored by Borhene Chakroun, Chief of Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development at UNESCO and James Keevy, CEO at JET Education Services.
"Quality education requires well-trained teachers"
The CSTL Handbook is a simpler adaptation of the National Support Pack, and is intended to guide and strengthen the implementation of the Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) programme in schools, by providing information on the policies and principles underpinning the CSTL programme, as well as guidance on implementing the ten defined Priority Action Areas at school level.
Latest newsletter from the Primary Teacher Education Project.
On Wednesday 5 June 2018, JET was honoured with a visit from Prof Chabani Manganyi, our first CEO. Prof Manganyi reminisced about the founding of the Joint Education Trust and acknowledged JET for the good work it has been doing in the education sector over a very long time.
Congratulations to Roelien Herholdt, manager of our Assessment Unit who was awarded the University of Johannesburg's Chancellor's Medal for her Master's dissertation.
From May 24 to 25, UNESCO-UNEVOC held a Global TVET Learning Forum on ‘Managing skills in a time of disruption’.
In recognition of the increase in the numbers of affordable independent schools in South Africa, JET has been assisting four school operators and Old Mutual Alternative Investments’ Schools Fund to use standardised assessments to improve educational quality and accountability in their schools.
JET's evaluation conducted for the DPME is available on the DPME's web site .
Anglo American, in partnership with the Department of Basic Education (DBE), has launched a major new education programme to "improve outcomes for learners in 100 early childhood development (ECD) sites and 100 primary and secondary schools local to its mining operations in South Africa".
James Keevy will be representing JET at UNESCO’s flagship ICT in education conference organised in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and taking place from 26 to 30 March at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
JET contributed to a new publication from the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)