By Ragheema Mclean With just one day to go before the first school bell rings for the 2024 school year, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) says it’s all systems go as they prepare to welcome learners back to school. The department expressed: “We are looking forward to welcoming our learners back for the 2024 school year – it is all systems go!” School teachers returned to work on Monday, […]
The Congress of South African Students (COSAS), has criticised the release of matric results a week after schools and tertiary institutions opened for the new academic year. COSAS president general, Skhalo Mahladisa, says the Department of Basic Education and Higher Education must improve their working relations for the benefit of students. Breakfast engagement The 2022 matric results are set to be released on Thursday evening. The release of the results will be […]
The Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) said that the later-than-usual release of matric results is not expected to impact academic operations at universities. The matric results are expected to be released on 19 January. Higher Education spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said measures are in place to mitigate any negative outcome. “You know, when we look at the processes of new entry administration, our institutions, they start as early as June/July to […]
Education quality assurance body Umalusi said matriculants waiting to submit their final results at universities would not miss admission deadlines. Umalusi assured pupils that tertiary institutions were cognisant of the delay in the release of matric results, and would adjust their admission dates accordingly. In previous years, final matric results were released in the first week of January. However, this year, they will be released on the 20th. The Department […]
The Western Cape Education Department hopes to retain a matric pass rate of above 80% . Results for the National Senior Certificate examinations are scheduled to be released on Wednesday. More than 53,000 full-time students sat for last year's final exams in the province. Next week marks the end of the 12-year school career for many matrics who'll be receiving their exam results. The class of 2019 have had to […]
Tight security measures and system improvements have paid off for the Department of Basic Education‚ with not a single question paper leaked for the first time in years. Despite minor incidences of individual irregularities where candidates were caught with script notes and cell phones in examination centres‚ Umalusi is satisfied that there were no systematic irregularities that might have compromised the credibility and integrity of the examinations. Umalusi CEO‚ Dr […]
Education experts say there is nothing fishy about the standardisation process used by the Council for Quality Assurance in Further Education and Training‚ Umalusi‚ in the wake of criticism of the process by the Democratic Alliance (DA). In an open letter addressed to Umalusi CEO Dr Mafu Rakometsi‚ DA education spokesman Gavin Davis suggested that the methodology employed for mark adjustments in matric results was unsound. This is something Umalusi […]
There has been almost no progress in learner performance in mathematics in recent years, said Umalusi chairperson Professor John Volmink on Thursday. He also said the performance in mathematical literacy - considered the "soft option" - was almost as "critically low" as in mathematics. Volmink added that, while there were many subjects where the learner performance fluctuated from year to year, Umalusi singled out mathematics as one of the key […]
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