The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) has remained defiant that the province will see an improvement in its matric pass rate, despite several less than optimistic forecasts. Exam monitoring body, Umalusi has strongly hinted that the national pass percentage will decline from that of previous year’s statistics. Basic education minister,[…]
Baker, bicycle repairer, tattoo artist – these are some of the career opportunities available for the next generation of matrics not planning on going to university. “Matric is not everything” said Christina Watson, CEO of educational publisher Via Afrika. “Years ago, the thing was if you had a matric, you[…]
Pupils in the eight provinces will be able to view their results and collect their matric certificates at school from 08:00 on Wednesday morning. Matric exam quality assurer, Umalusi, has already warned that the national pass rate will be lower than the 75.8% for the class of 2014. However, even[…]
Exam monitoring body, Umalusi has revealed that it has uncovered 26 probable cases of group copying during the 2015 matric examination process; this after 58 exam centres were implicated in a similar cheating scandal in 2014. The body defines group copying as any form of assistance given to a group[…]
The class of 2015 has one more sleep until the Department of Basic Education starts releasing matric results eight of the nine provinces from midnight on Tuesday. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will first announce the national pass rate on television at 18:00 on Tuesday January 5 for pupils who[…]
Equal Education on Sunday asked South Africans to spare a thought for those students who had dropped out of schooling before they could even reach matric. “If half or nearly half of all learners never take matric, this is a major problem in itself,” said the civil rights organisation in[…]
Money and better resources can pave the way to good matric results, an education activist group has said. This comes after the Independent Examination Board (IEB) reported a 98.30% pass rate in their final year exams this year. Equal Education’s general secretary, Tshepo Motsepe, said the near perfect result was[…]
The Independent Examination Board (IEB) reported a 98.30% pass rate for the pupils who wrote its matric exams this year. This is a minuscule drop from the 98.38% of 2014. Of the 10 212 full time and 563 part time pupils from 200 schools across southern Africa who wrote the[…]
As the 2015 academic year draws to a close, matriculants anxiously await their results, expected to be released on the 6 of January 2016. Looking back at the year, students expressed mixed sentiments. ”My matric papers are the last thing on my mind,” exclaims Junaid Martin, a student of Alexander[…]
The 206 matriculants who were moved from Masiphumelele by the Western Cape Education Department following unrest in their community, were in good spirits after writing their first two papers, the department said on Tuesday. The pupils, who attend Masiphumelele High School, were being accommodated at an undisclosed venue after threats[…]
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