"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 National School Effectiveness Study

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

CEO's PRESENTATION AT JET's 2011 AGM

Annual report launch speech by Godwin Khosa, CEO of JET Education Services 30 June 2011

Address by the Minister of Basic Education at JET's AGM

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

JET's 2010 Annual Report was released at the AGM held on the 30 June 2011.

JET appoints a new chairman and two new Board members

A partnership between the state, the private sector and civil society

The Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) commissioned JET Education Services to study some of the private sector initiatives aimed at assisting capable learners from disadvantaged backgrounds obtain university entrance passes in mathematics.

At the outset, let me express my sincere appreciation to the FET Steering Committee, led by my Director General Professor Mary Metcalfe, assisted by my advisors Mr Gwebs Qonde and John Pampallis, for the excellent work they have done over the past four months to prepare for this summit. I am aware that extensive work has been undertaken under the leadership of the Steering Committee and that many difficult issues have been confronted in the preparatory processes.

Report by Martin Gustafsson, Servaas van der Berg, Debra Sheperd and Cobus Burger. Produced for JET Education Services in 2009 with funding provided by Nedbank. A working paper of the Department of Economics and the Bureau for Economic Research at the University of Stellenbosch.