JET's Annual Report 2011 was launched at the AGM on the 7th June 2012
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Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande's Budget Vote speech in Parliament, Cape Town
SA Basic Education Conference, 2 - 4 April 2012, ICC, DURBAN
JET Education Services and EduSource Trust have joined forces to revive EduSource Data News, a newsletter previously distributed by The Education Foundation Trust.
The Business Day Dialogues is a series of debates among a panel of invited experts on important issues affecting South Africa. They are held with the intention of influencing policy as well as public opinion.
"Plan to fix schools is lacking in some essential details". Business day, 21 November 2011.
The NSES study was part the five-year 3Rs project started in 2006 and funded by the Royal Netherlands Government (RNE) to conduct research which would contribute to the Department of Education's efforts to improve the quality of education in South Africa.
JET Education Services has been contracted by SADTU to provide technical and project management services to the SADTU Curtis Nkondo Professional Development Institute (SCNPDI)
The project was undertaken by a consortium made up of the Human Sciences Research Council (the lead organisation), the Education Policy Consortium, JET Education Services, and the Project for the Study of Alternative Education in South Africa, with the support of the Department of Education. The NSES study, conducted under the theme of improving school effectiveness, was designed to enable the gain scores of a learner over any one-year period to be related to the practices followed by the teacher for the same year. The study followed a group of children for three years, starting with Grade 3 in 2007 and ending in Grade 5 in 2009. Around 16 000 children participated in each year of data gathering, during which a cohort of 8 383 was tracked over all three years. The NSES culminated in the publication of the book Creating Effective Schools, edited by Nick Taylor, Servaas ven der Berg and Thabo Mabogoane
Annual report launch speech by Godwin Khosa, CEO of JET Education Services 30 June 2011
JET's 2010 Annual Report was released at the AGM held on the 30th June 2011. The keynote address on the topic of the "Role of NGOs in Education Improvement" was delivered by Angie Motshekga, Minister of Basic Education