NECT News

Government, business, teacher unions and NGOs collaborate to create an educational Codessa

Polokwane (1 April 2014) – Learners, teachers and education officials in the Vhembe and Waterberg district will soon begin to feel the benefits of the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) which was launched in July 2013 to speed-up the pace of change in education.

Centurion, 19 March 2014 – Yesterday, the National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) and the education sector trade unions, held a prolific joint meeting to clarify the roles of each in securing the key success conditions for the Education Collaboration Framework (ECF).

The National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) would like to congratulate the Minister of Basic Education, her provincial counterparts and the Department as a whole for the consistent increase in the senior certificate pass rate and the 4.3 percentage points increase achieved last year.

The recently established National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT), a civil society-government partnership dedicated to intensifying reform and boosting performance in basic education, has appointed seasoned education strategist Godwin Khosa as its first chief executive officer.

The recently established National Education Collaboration Trust (NECT) kicked-off its programme of dialogue for change in basic education in Pretoria today (Friday 15 Nov) with a meeting of some 50 leaders in the field.