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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.

At a media briefing on the progress of the review of the implementation of the National Curriculum Statement, the Minister of Eudcation indicated that a new modified curriculum will replace the current NCS in an effort to improve teaching and learning in South African schools.

The 2009 Annual Report as well as JET's newly designed website were presented at the AGM which took place on the 28 May 2010 in the JET Boardroom, 5th Floor, Forum 1, Braampark, 33 Hoofd Street, Braamfontein.

JET's new vision launched on the 25th March 2010.

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Dr Nick Taylor, CEO of Jet Education Services for the past 16 years, is to step down on 1 October 2009. He will be replaced by Programme Director Godwin Khosa.