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[…]
VOC received a call from a concerned listener regarding a FET College 2014 exam results after an entire classroom of students failed with the same percentage. Throughout the year, a mother told VOC, her son had always been a successful student however, at the end of the final matric year[…]
The Leadership College (TLC) has made waves in the Mitchells Plain and Manenberg communities by achieving the highest distinction pass rate for the 2014 Matric class, across the Cape Flats. The Independent School has remained true to its long-standing reputation of good quality teaching and an overall high standard of[…]
The final exam results of the matric class of 2014 has received mixed responses from the public, following a drop in the overall percentage in the Western Cape from 85.1% in 2013, to 82.2% in 2014. However, some matric students attribute this decline to the challenging Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement[…]
Pupils should not be “lost” to the education system for the sake of achieving higher pass rates, Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schäfer said on Monday. “We believe that retaining more learners in the system and giving them the opportunity to pass the [matric] is more important than ‘losing’ learners[…]
The national pass rate for the 2014 matric exams dropped to 75.8 percent, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Monday. The past rate in 2013 was 78.2 percent, Motshekga announced in Johannesburg, admitting her disappointment. A total of 550,127 full-time and 138,533 part-time pupils wrote the basic education department’s[…]
The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) said the delay of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) results in the province is meant to help Grade 12 learners. Basic education minister Angie Motshekga is expected to announce the results at 6pm on Monday evening, however learners in the Western Cape will have[…]
With little under 24 hours before the final results of the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams are released, reports suggest that the class of 2014 will likely see a drop in the overall matric pass rate. This comes after monitoring body Umalusi revealed that the 2014 results in maths and[…]
Nerves are at an all time high for the current crop of Matric students ahead of the scheduled release of their National Senior Certificate (NSC) results, during the early part of next week. The release will be somewhat different this year, with the Department of Basic Education resolving not to[…]
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