Sibabalwe Mkungwana did not attend school until age 10. Now she’s a top matric achiever
Artisans are in short supply and colleges and apprenticeships are a viable alternative to a university qualification
Every year a flurry of suicides occur after matric results are announced. We need to help our children to put things in perspective
This week, Bongekile Macupe looks at the provinces’ motivations for the excess workload put on matric students
Educators say the state’s Second Chance programme doesn’t provide enough support to pupils who failed matric
Readers write in about teacher tests, and matric results.
Pass rates are too simplistic a measure to show the true state of SA’s education system.
Standardisation eliminates discrepancies that have nothing to do with pupils’ abilities.
Pupils at 18 schools were accused of copying during their matric exams, but didn’t show up for hearings. Now they are being allowed to rewrite.
Monitoring body Umalusi says it is concerned about the discovery of group copying in matric examinations in two provinces in the country.
The Limpopo education department has urged matriculants to ensure the institutions where they want to study are registered.
Minister of Higher Education and Training Blade Nzimande has defended the low matric pass requirement, saying SA is becoming "dangerously elitist".
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga’s eloquence on the credibility of the 78.2% matric pass rate for 2013 lay more in what she did not say.
South African matrics are passing at a higher rate. But this good news does not translate for the level of maths and science teaching and learning.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has announced matrics achieved a pass rate of 78.2%, with the Free State getting the top marks of 87.4%.
The Correctional Services department has reported a total of 79.25% of prisoners who wrote national senior certificate examinations passed in 2012.
Matrics get their results, the world rages over the Delhi gang-rape victim, America avoids the fiscal cliff and SA’s road death toll rises.
Matric results for 2012 are looking up but they have not told us enough about the deep social inequalities experienced by pupils across the country.
Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked the country to believe that 73.9% of grade 12s are sufficiently literate and numerate to pass matric.
The Western Cape says matriculants will receive their results on time even though the department of basic education misreported the aggregate numbers.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has announced that 73.9% of grade 12 learners passed the National Senior Certificate exams.
A total of 98.2% of students who wrote the National Senior Certificate (NSC) examinations under the Independent Examinations Board (IEB) have passed.
Independent Examination Board (IEB) examination results announced on Friday were a slight improvement on last year’s, it has been reported.
The matric examinations of 2012 have been declared fair, valid and credible by Umalusi, said chairperson Sizwe Mabizela.
Learners from Limpopo and the Northern Cape will not be given special treatment when it comes to matric results, says Umalusi.
Mamphela Ramphele lashed out at South Africa’s education system.
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/ 20 January 2012
The disappointment of matric results is not the end of the world — kick-start your future by using this time wisely.
In the second of his two-part article, Max price explains why UCT uses race in deciding who to admit.
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/ 13 January 2012
The dramatic rise in the pass rate over the past two years raises unrealistic expectations about entry into higher education.
There are other factors to consider before we celebrate the ‘improved’ quality of our schooling.
Education experts say that the 2011 matric results show a worrying trend of high attrition at school level and low performance in critical subjects.
After a drop in its 2011 matric pass rate, the KwaZulu-Natal education department says poverty is one of the largest stumbling blocks for its pupils.