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.
Publication Update
JET's evaluation conducted for the DPME is available on the DPME's web site .
Publication Update
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)
Publication Update
A statistical snapshot of the post-school landscape in South Africa in 2016.
Publication Update
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
Publication Update
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
Publication Update
The Theme of World Teachers' Day 2022 is “The transformation of education begins with teachers”. World Teachers' Day is commemorated annually on October 5th.
Commemorating the signing of the UNESCO/ILO Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers.
JET recently underwent an IiP assessment and is now an accredited IiP organisation. This means that JET has joined the ranks of “organisations that meet the world-recognised Investors in People Standard, reflecting the very best in people management excellence” Investors In People, Assessment report, JET Education Services.
JET attended and participated in the Centre for Development and Enterprise's event at which a new series of reports on South Africa's crisis of youth unemployment was launched.
PrimTEd Newsletter 4
A visit from Prof Chabani Manganyi, JET's first CEO
Roelien Herholdt awarded Chancellor's Medal
New JET Bulletin: Standardised learner assessments in "affordable" independent schools in South Africa.
National Evaluation Plan: Implementation of the National Curriculum Statement Grade R to 12 focusing on the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements (CAPS)
JET participates in UNESCO's Mobile Learning Week 2018
Global inventory of regional and national qualifications frameworks 2017
DHET releases Statistics on Post-School Education and Training in South Africa: 2016
JET's founder Mike Rosholt passed away
Guidelines for the Quality Assurance of TVET Qualifications in the Asia-Pacific region
Diversifying the funding sources for TVET
JET's latest publication: Exploring a Work-Based Values Approach in South African TVET Colleges to Improve Employability of Youth
PIRLS results shock, but not enough
Implementation Evaluaton of the National School Nutrition Programme published by the DPME
Report of the Commission on the Feasibility of Fee-Free Higher Education and Training (Heher Report) released.
From the TIMSS SA Newsletter: Error analysis - a learning opportunity?
2017/8 Global Education Monitoring Report "Accountability in Education" out now
World Teachers Day 2022
JET achieves Investors in People accreditation
JET's Annual Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration
