Category: Education
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83% matric pass rate, but is SA making the grade?
The class of 2023 recorded the highest matric pass rate since at least 2009. But fewer learners are finishing school and only a third wrote maths.
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Matric exam data can help uncover the state of education
Outlier Insights is a new project that makes it easy to view and interrogate datasets – such as 13 years of South African matric results.
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Census 2022: Education in South Africa in 4 charts
No early start for 40% of the country’s young children.
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No-fee schools are at a real disadvantage when it comes to maths
This year’s matric results show that half of the the grade 12s in no-fee schools failed maths
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What is South Africa doing in space?
The R4.47-billion Space Infrastructure Hub will see satellites built for earth observation and science missions to supply space weather forecasts, satellite navigation and land-mapping.
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Schools still don’t meet minimum standards nine years after deadlines to fix them were put in place
The Department of Basic Education now appears to want to remove the deadlines altogether
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Fourth Industrial Revolution seems far away for schools where no matrics write maths and science
The number of schools where no Grade 12s sat the final maths exams doubled since 2013.
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Only 7 SA universities included in major world rankings
But how do you get onto a list and does it matter?
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Matric maths and science numbers remain dismally low
Only a small portion of South Africa’s 2021 matrics took mathematics and physical sciences, and far fewer passed with over 60%.
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No-fee schools maintain their bachelor pass rate, despite Covid-19
But learners at fee paying schools are much more likely to get a bachelor pass than the 70% of kids who attend the no-fee schools.