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SDU UCT Annual Report 2023

The Schools Development Unit has once again excelled in delivering its mandate of working with teachers and learners to improve teaching and learning within schools. The SDU has been responsible for implementing a diverse range of projects and programmes during 2023. Our teams have continued to work collaboratively with UCT’s School of Education staff, enabling expertise to be shared at the highest level. This has ensured that the Unit remains at the forefront of delivering quality training and support for teachers and learners. Our social responsiveness programmes, 100UP and the School Improvement Initiative (SII), continue to be beacons of hope for our learners and school communities. These programmes provide the best possible opportunities for schools to become centres of excellence, and, in the case of 100UP, for learners to be supported, academically and psychosocially, in accessing study opportunities at higher education institutions. Both programmes strengthen UCT’s commitment to transformation, diversity and community engagement. The Grade R Mathematics Project is currently being implemented in Gauteng, in which the SDU has been working in close collaboration with the Gauteng Department of Education and JET Education services. This project has placed the SDU at the forefront of delivering quality Early Childhood Development (ECD) training courses. As this sector becomes increasingly critical in the cognitive and psychosocial development of grade R-3 learners, the SDU is currently expanding this programme, in collaboration with various partners, to offer more innovative ways of training our ECD teachers. The theme for this Annual Report is Changing schools for good.

Uwase, J and Taylor, N. (2019). Paper prepared for the Mastercard Foundation Report: Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work.

Arinaitwe, JM, Taylor, N, Broadbent, E and Oloya, C. (2019). Paper prepared for the Mastercard Foundation Report: Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work.

Taylor, N and Robinson, N. (2019). Paper prepared for the Mastercard Foundation Report: Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work.

Adotevi, J and Taylor, N. (2019). Paper prepared for the Mastercard Foundation Report: Secondary Education in Africa: Preparing Youth for the Future of Work.

Report by Nick Taylor, Thabo Mabogoane and Binaben Akoobhai on a research study commissioned by the Office of the Presidency and funded by GTZ. The purpose of the research was to investigate the link between school level learning and institutional practice. The study focused on school level practices in high schools, and measured learning outcomes by school mean performance on the annual national Senior Certificate examinations.

Skills recognition mechanisms for selected occupational profiles of migrant workers in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa

The ILO Country Office for Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan and South Sudan, and for the Special Representative to the AU and the ECA, through its “Better Regional Migration Management” project financed by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) carried out a feasibility study on skills recognition mechanisms for selected occupational profiles, namely, domestic work and welding. The analysis of the study focused on different economic contexts and labour migration governance mechanisms, namely the intra-regional migration corridor: Ethiopia-South Africa, and the free mobility within a regional economic community (IGAD), with emphasis on the Ethiopia-Kenya migration corridor.

JET Education Services summarises some key points from President Cyril Ramaphosa's State of the Nation Address on 13 February 2020, Parliament South Africa.