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/ 2 February 2011
<i>M&G</i> readers weigh in on Cope, Serjeant at the Bar, the Cabinet report card and more.
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/ 28 January 2011
We agree with the argument of Sarah Gravett and Gillian Godsell that comparisons are odious when it comes to South African education.
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.
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.
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/ 29 November 2010
Department of basic education has not redeployed any suspended officials.
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/ 25 November 2010
The destruction of matric scripts in Cape Town has brought into focus what measures exist to compensate pupils when their scripts are lost.
Socioeconomic background makes all the difference when it comes to matric exams.
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/ 14 October 2010
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.
What is so unreasonable about the prelim-exam demands of the Congress of South African Students (Cosas)?
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/ 10 September 2010
With just a few weeks to go before the 2010 matric examinations, learners should be hard at work preparing for the challenge.
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/ 9 September 2010
The strike may be over but the anxiety has only just begun for matric students. We talk to pupils from public and private schools.
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/ 8 September 2010
KwaZulu-Natal matric preliminary exams should be cancelled and the time used to prepare for the final examinations, Sadtu said on Tuesday.
The number of provinces in which matric preliminary exams have been postponed jumped to five on Thursday — from three on Wednesday.
Some schools in Gauteng have said they will not implement the provincial education department’s ruling on Wednesday to postpone matric prelim exams.
There is "no chance" the final matric exams will be postponed, the national department of basic education said on Wednesday.
A Soweto high school pupil hanged herself in Emndeni on Thursday after discovering she failed matric, Johannesburg police said.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has done the right thing by stepping into the matric exam mess in Mpumalanga
Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday she was "most unhappy" with the 60,7% pass rate for the National Senior Certificate exams.
About 60,7% of matrics passed the 2009 exams — just less than 2% down from 2008, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Thursday.
The case of matric examination paper leaks in Mpumalanga has been handed over to the Hawks, the education department said on Tuesday.
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/ 14 January 2009
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.
About 1 500 pupils in KwaZulu-Natal have not received their 2008 matric results due to cheating and technical irregularities.
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/ 30 December 2008
Eastern Cape premier Mbulelo Sogoni was ”not happy” on Tuesday with the results that have put his province at the bottom of the 2008 matric class.
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/ 30 December 2008
The uneven matric results show that despite a curriculum change, the SA education system is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era.
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/ 30 December 2008
The country’s 2008 matric class received a pass rate of 62,5 %, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 October 2008
A three-year blacklisting and a criminal record await those who write exams for their friends, the KwaZulu-Natal education department said on Monday.
If nothing else, the country’s matric results are a loud and painful reminder that the education system is in need of a major overhaul.
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/ 8 December 1989
Weekly Mail reporter Philip Molefe slips into a marking centre and discovers some extraordinary practices …