Co-authored by Borhene Chakroun, Chief of Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development at UNESCO and James Keevy, CEO at JET Education Services.
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)
A statistical snapshot of the post-school landscape in South Africa in 2016.
JET notes with great sadness the passing if its founding Chairman, Mike Rosholt
In December, the government called for comments on the proposed NSDP which was designed to respond to the policy goals of the White Paper on Post School Education and Training to improve the integration of the PSET system and the interface between PSET institutions and the world of work (NSDP, p. 4).
Written by Andrea Bateman and Mike Coles and published in 2017 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Report of the UNESCO-UNEVOC virtual conference 16 to 22 January 2017. Moderated by Christine Uhder Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET), France
Congratulations to the matriculants of 2017.
The PIRLS 2016 scores released on 5 December 2017 are striking deep chords of disappointment in everyone involved in schooling in South Africa.
Now available in the DPME's Evaluation Repository
President Jacob Zuma on Monday released the report, which recommends that the existing National Students' Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) model be replaced by a new Income Contingency Loan System.
Error analysis is a tool that can help us to understand learners' thinking when they answer questions and identify teaching strategies which can be used to improve their performance.
The Presidency has issued an update on the release of the Heher Commission
Don’t just blame the teacher when the system is at fault, says UNESCO
The Theme of World Teachers' Day 2022 is “The transformation of education begins with teachers”. World Teachers' Day is commemorated annually on October 5th.