{"id":82204,"date":"2022-02-01T13:42:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T13:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/?p=82204"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:43:49","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2022\/02\/01\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"No-fee schools maintain their bachelor pass rate, despite Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Covid-19 disrupted their final two years of schooling, yet the 2021 matric class managed to maintain the rate of bachelor passes \u2013 the minimum required to get into university \u2013 at 36%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means about one in every three matrics earned a bachelor pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2016 the proportion of grade 12s who achieve a bachelor\u2019s pass has been gradually increasing, from 26.6% to 36.4%, or from one in four learners to one in three \u2013 even with more grade 12 learners writing the National Senior Certificate exams in 2021 compared with previous years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read our story on it here: Matrics in 2021 buck school drop-out trends<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fee-paying vs no-fee schools<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

South Africa\u2019s schools are divided into five quintiles, according to the socioeconomic level of the area in which they are located. Quintiles one to three are no-fee paying schools and quintile four and five schools are fee-paying schools, according to the Department Basic of Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The no-fee paying schools \u2013 quintiles one to three \u2013 did better than expected given they were most affected by the lockdown restrictions and they were the least likely to have the resources for online learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But grade 12 learners have a greater chance of getting a bachelor\u2019s pass if they attend a fee-paying school, particularly a quintile 5 school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nearly six in every 10 learners at quintile 5 schools achieved a bachelor\u2019s pass \u2013 about 15% of the grade 12s who wrote the NSC exams in 2021 attended a quintile 5 school. While at no-fee schools about three in every 10 learners achieved a bachelor pass \u2013 about 70% of the grade 12s attend one of those schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Department of Education plans to increase the number of grade 12s passing with the requirements to enter a bachelor\u2019s degree to 435,000 by 2030, according to a report<\/a> written by education expert and professor at Stellenbosch University Martin Gustafsson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, 256,031 learners achieved a bachelor\u2019s pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe emphasis has increasingly fallen on levels of performance in Grade 12 which will allow someone to pursue university studies, given government\u2019s plans to expand university participation to meet the demands of the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,446,1387],"tags":[58,59,60,61],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-82204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-the-outlier","tag-58","tag-education","tag-matric-results","tag-no-fee-schools"],"acf":{"post_style":"bc","show_on_front":"Yes","link_through":"Yes","big_number":"","big_number_caption":"","big_number_link":"","big_number_background":"","big_number_text_colour":"#000000","big_number_icon":false,"big_number_wide":"yes","featured_chart":false,"flourish_chart_id":"","flourish_sub_title":"","flourish_chart_width":"medium","is_newsletter_post":"No","chart_url":"","background_colour":"#0089AA","text_colour":"#FFFFFF"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90056,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82204\/revisions\/90056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=82204"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=82204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}