A student wellness consultant gives advice on how to cope with – and overcome – examination anxiety
Moving the national senior certificate exams forward also allows matrics who are old enough to cast their ballots on 1 November
Education department delays 2021 academic year as the Covid-19 death and infection rates rise rapidly, but assures 2020 matrics that results will be released on time
Covid disrupted the 2020 academic year but catchup plans have been hatched in the nine provinces, including extra lessons, earlier class times, and subject-specific boot camps
State technology agency wins first battle in IT tender war, with court to hear rest of the matter on urgent basis
Losing an academic year is untenable, but a return to class must be safe and all learners must benefit
In a changing work environment and poor economic climate, the minimum requirement is a national senior certificate or similar
In matric my friends and I got into trouble and were called into the principal’s office to be reprimanded. I do not remember most of what the principal said during the…
With 7.9-million young South Africans out of work or with very little education or training opportunities, who looks out for their aspirations?
With 12-million students in 26 000 schools, the education system is under pressure to teach the next generation. Education minister says it’s working
Education quality assurer Umalusi has raised a red flag about two websites that sell fake matric certificates, a criminal offence
The Department of Basic Education has said it is confident that the examination will run smoothly.
A Limpopo school attributes its excellent results to the extra lessons it holds daily from 6pm to 11pm.
You’ve got to feel for SAs matriculants, particularly if they come from poor families or attended underresourced schools.
The national and provincial education departments to focus all their energies on assisting pupils in the crucial foundation phase.
Pushing pupils into grade 12 before they are ready causes more headaches than it solves, according to teachers.
We need to question the standard that has been set as acceptable for history, as well as the quality of the markers themselves, writes Maryke Bailey.
In a pilot project, six schools were chosen to set the repo rate for the monetary policy committee. Aneesa Fazel reports.
The 2010 maths and science matric results rang alarm bells for some educationists.
While the overall pass rate for matriculants had increased, the number of students who sat the mathematics paper and then passed, dropped in 2010.
