TICZA Implementation Compendium Issue 1 2024

TICZA (the Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa) is a collective impact project designed to support mutually-reinforcing activities among discrete actors in the education sector related to initial teacher education. Collective impact as a concept is designed to address complex problems through the collaborative efforts of multiple stakeholders. In a collective impact project, emphasis is on alignment and partnership between government, private and third sector organisations that work towards shared goals and measure the same things. In order to ensure that shared goals are mutually understood and consistently measured, reaching consensus on terminology is an essential starting point. Given the complex and dynamic nature of teacher education, it should not be surprising that terminology may need to be adapted. Critically, though, all stakeholders in the collective impact project ought to be abreast of policy terminology. Moreover, where contestation arises amongst stakeholders in the collective impact project regarding concepts, existing policy should be deferred to and aligned with.

TICZA Implementation Compendium Issue 2 2024

In 2015, various stakeholders joined efforts to design a pilot project that aimed to improve the quality of newly qualified teachers who studied through distance education. Save the Children South Africa (SCSA), in partnership with key stakeholders, designed and implemented the District Based Teacher Recruitment Strategy (DBTRS) project in the Thabo Mofutsanyana Education District (TMED) of the Free State.

The Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA) stakeholder map

The Teacher Internship Collaboration South Africa (TICZA) Theory of Change (TOC)

Keynote presentation on the occasion of the launch of the RESEP reports: “Binding Constraints in Education” and “Laying Firm Foundations: Getting Reading Right”, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch University, 24 May 2016.

JET Education Services (JET), in collaboration with the Manufacturing, Engineering, and Related Services Sector Education and Training Authority (merSETA), has initiated a programme (PSET CLOUD) that seeks to address the development of an integrated national digital ecosystem that is interoperable and can be used for effective skills planning and provisioning.

Towards a micro-credential country model for Uganda

Recognition of non-formal and informal skills for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa through the innovation of micro-credentials. Published by Unicef, Austrian Development Agency in collaboration with JET Education Services (D. Odongo and P. Molokwane)

Towards a micro-credential country model for Burundi

Recognition of non-formal and informal skills for young people in Eastern and Southern Africa through the innovation of micro-credentials. Published by Unicef, Austrian Development Agency in collaboration with JET Education Services (N.Niyiduhaye, A.Paterson, Z. Vally)