- 28 Jan 2011 08:15 - Staff Reporter
- We agree with the argument of Sarah Gravett and Gillian Godsell that comparisons are odious when it comes to South African education.
- 07 Jan 2011 07:56 - Staff Reporter
- Specialists are divided on the question of whether so unexpected and so huge an improvement in the matric pass rate is both believable and reliable.
- 06 Jan 2011 07:35 - Staff Reporter
- More than 67% of matrics passed last year's exams -- up from 60,7% in 2009, the basic education ministry announced in Pretoria on Thursday.
- 29 Nov 2010 14:27 - Thabo Mohlala
- Department of basic education has not redeployed any suspended officials.
- 25 Nov 2010 14:00 - Kamogelo Seekoei
- The destruction of matric scripts in Cape Town has brought into focus what measures exist to compensate pupils when their scripts are lost.
- 29 Oct 2010 10:18 - Kamogelo Seekoei
- Socioeconomic background makes all the difference when it comes to matric exams.
- 14 Oct 2010 13:37 - Staff Reporter
- It's all systems go for the year-end school exams in 10 days' time, despite the difficulties of experienced this year, the education minister says.
- 24 Sep 2010 06:00 - David Macfarlane
- What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?
- 10 Sep 2010 10:58 - Sameerah Karolia
- With just a few weeks to go before the 2010 matric examinations, learners should be hard at work preparing for the challenge.
- 09 Sep 2010 13:14 - Duduzile Mathebula
- The strike may be over but the anxiety has only just begun for matric students. We talk to pupils from public and private schools.
- 08 Sep 2010 11:42 - Staff Reporter
- KwaZulu-Natal matric preliminary exams should be cancelled and the time used to prepare for the final examinations, Sadtu said on Tuesday.
- 26 Aug 2010 16:24 - Staff Reporter
- The number of provinces in which matric preliminary exams have been postponed jumped to five on Thursday -- from three on Wednesday.
- 25 Aug 2010 14:29 - Staff Reporter
- Some schools in Gauteng have said they will not implement the provincial education department's ruling on Wednesday to postpone matric prelim exams.
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- 25 Aug 2010 10:45 - Staff Reporter
- There is "no chance" the final matric exams will be postponed, the national department of basic education said on Wednesday.
- 08 Jan 2010 12:29 - Staff Reporter
- A Soweto high school pupil hanged herself in Emndeni on Thursday after discovering she failed matric, Johannesburg police said.
- 08 Jan 2010 09:46 - Prim Gower
- Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga
- 07 Jan 2010 09:06 - Michael Hamlyn
- Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday she was "most unhappy" with the 60,7% pass rate for the National Senior Certificate exams.
- 07 Jan 2010 07:13 - Verashni Pillay
- About 60,7% of matrics passed the 2009 exams -- just less than 2% down from 2008, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday.
- 06 Jan 2010 07:18 - Staff Reporter
- The case of matric examination paper leaks in Mpumalanga has been handed over to the Hawks, the education department said on Tuesday.
- 14 Jan 2009 10:15 - Staff Reporter
- African National Congress president Jacob Zuma was so impressed by a Soweto school's pass rate on Wednesday, that he wished he was one of its pupils.
