Tag: Department of Basic Education
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School trip: Walking is the only option for two-thirds of SA’s learners
There are about 15.4-million school-going children in South Africa and almost two-thirds of them have to walk to school every day, according Statistics SA’s 2023 General Household Survey. Walking to school is not necessarily a bad thing but for many learners there are few alternatives. There is little in the way of school buses available to learners and public transport is equally limited…
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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.