Matric pupils across the country have returned to their schools today to collect their National Senior Certificates, with pupils in the Western Cape able to collect their results from midday onwards. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced that the matric pass rate for the 2015 academic year is 70,7% which[…]
All lower quintile schools in the Western Cape improved their matric performance, Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer said on Wednesday. They were still analysing the numbers, but were happy with the various improvements. The province had the highest matric pass rate in the country, at 84.7%. Public schools are[…]
The number of so-called “progressed learners” pushed down the matric pass rate for 2015, Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday. She was, however, quick to defend the pupils indicating they were not the only reason there was a decrease. Motshekga announced on Tuesday that the national pass[…]
The Western Cape was the best performing province in the 2015 National Senior Certificate exams with an 84.7% pass rate. Gauteng was close on its heels with an 84.2% pass rate. Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced the results in Midrand on Tuesday night. The Free State was the third-best[…]
Thousands of matrics throughout the country will know their individual results on Wednesday. All results, except those for Western Cape, would go live on the department’s website. Schools in all provinces, except the Western Cape, would open at 08:00 for pupils to fetch results and collect their National Senior Certificate,[…]
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[…]
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