Committed to ensuring a South Africa where 90% of learners pass mathematics, science and languages with at least 50% by 2030

Programme 5: Education DialogueSA

Towards the end of 2013, the NECT set up an Education Dialogue group comprising 43 members representing educationists, academics, business, unions and government. The purpose of the Dialogue is to create an avenue for open, honest engagement around key subjects which need resolution and action for educational reform to be successful in South Africa.

Since 2012 the NECT has convened the following 23 Dialogues:

Dialogue	Date	Number of people directlyinvolved
Leadership dialogue	2012	50
Protocols for education DialogueSA	2013	43
Making schools and teachers effective	2014	100
Partnership schools dialogue	2015	50
Union dialogue	2015	15
SACE seminar on teacher professionalisation	2015	50
Eastern Cape Deans of Education	2015	30
Learner Safety summit	2015	400
Education NGO leadership summit	2016	300
Vuwani crisis - local stakeholder engagement	2016	100
Four provincial roadshows	2016	2000
Hair policy	2017	20
Education Policy	2017	550
21st Century skills and the Fourth Industrial Revolution	2017	180
Decolonisation of schooling	2017	100
School Uniform	2018	85
4-Dimensional Education	2018	100
SA-SAMS	2018	50
Schools Safety	2018	400
The coordination of ECD services	2018	100
ECD	2019	100
Development in Education	2019	50
Sandbox Learning	2019	50