By: Aneeqa du Plessis The Department of Basic Education is set to release the National Senior Certificate results for the class of 2022 on Thursday afternoon. But with the release comes heightened anxiety from matriculants and their parents. However, speaking on VOC’s Breakfast show on Thursday morning, child and educational[…]
Education quality assurance body, Umalusi, will on Monday morning brief the media on the status of the 2022 national matric examination results. Private school results are set to be released on Wednesday and public schools on Thursday. Over 900 000 matric learners wrote the exams. Education activist Hendrick Makaneta says[…]
The National Association of Schools Governing Bodies (SGB) is calling for a thorough investigation into allegations that more than 1 000 pupils from six provinces cheated in this year’s matric exams. It is alleged pupils paid teachers up to R1 500 to join a WhatsApp group where answers were shared[…]
The National Association of Schools Governing Bodies (SGB) is calling for a thorough investigation into allegations that more than 1 000 pupils from six provinces cheated in this year’s matric exams. It is alleged pupils paid teachers up to R1 500 to join a WhatsApp group where answers were shared[…]
LOCAL As thousands of pupils prepare to celebrate the end of their school careers at matric rage parties this weekend they have been urged to do so responsibly – especially around alcohol. Two big matric rage festivals, regarded by many school leavers as a rite of passage that symbolises stepping[…]
LOCAL About 100 Western Cape matric students sat for Sepedi and Sesotho papers on Tuesday amid a taxi strike. The SA National Taxi Association (Santaco) in the province embarked on a two-day protest after the suspension of the City of Cape Town’s Blue Dot Taxi initiative. Insufficient budgets ended the initiative,[…]
NATIONAL Umalusi has highlighted its concerns over incidents that have marred the 2022 matric exams. These include a mathematics paper which had an error in it, the prematurerelease of two question papers still to be written and protest action which delayed or caused pupils to miss their exams. In a[…]
LOCAL Matrics have been warned against cheating during their final exam. Hundreds of thousands of matrics kicked off the National Senior Certificate exam two weeks ago. According to Western Cape Education MEC David Maynier, more than a dozen students have been busted with cellphones or crib notes during an exam.[…]
LOCAL he Department of Basic Education says Minister Angie Motshekga will soon make an announcement on the findings of its investigation into a matric Maths question that some learners say was impossible to answer. The question is worth seven marks. The problem with Maths Paper 2 was reported nationwide after[…]
LOCAL Several matric pupils in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, the Eastern Cape, North West, Western Cape, Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape were found with crib notes during examinations this week. This was revealed on Sunday by the director-general of the department of basic education, Mathanzima Mweli, who briefed the media on how[…]
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