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Making the grade
[Nicci Botha] The 70% matric pass rate announced by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga sounds pretty impressive considering the class of 2015 is only the third to have transitioned the entire schooling system since 1994... read


Education & Training
Employees get assistance from Children of VW Bursary
The Children of VW Bursary has increased from five in 2012 to 26 learners in 2016... read
Higher Education
ANC urges higher education to ease access for successful learners
The ANC's Zizi Kodwa listed a number of landmarks - "a record 799,306" writing the exams‚ "the highest number ever of passes‚ the highest number ever of distinctions and science passes - before noting "the decline in overall pass percentage this year"... read
Beware of bogus higher learning institutions, KZN MEC warns
The "jostling for spaces" at places of higher learning will mean "delinquents will also be ready to take advantage of unsuspecting students", the KwaZulu-Natal education MEC warned... read
Primary & Secondary Education
What to look for in an Early Childhood Development centre
The City of Cape Town's Social Development and Early Childhood Development Directorate would like to appeal to parents and caregivers to do their homework in their search for an Early Childhood Development (ECD) centre for their children... read
Matric Second Chance Support Programme launched
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has launched the Matric Second Chance Support Programme to afford learners who failed to pass last year's exams another chance to obtain matric... read
Poverty no obstacle for Christel House 2015 matrics
Christel House, a donor-funded school in Ottery, Cape Town for learners living in conditions of extreme poverty, has celebrated the matric results with an impressive 82,5% bachelor pass rate - its best matric results yet... read
2015 matric class retains above 70% pass rate
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has commended the matric class of 2015 for upholding the trend of producing results above a pass rate of 70%... read
School content aimed at improving education in SA

Issued by HDI Youth Marketeers

The Pick n Pay School Club will be initiating the 2016 educational content distribution from Monday, 18 January, to over 3,000 schools nationally... read
Impak's top matriculant boasts five distinctions

Issued by Impak

Impak's top matriculant of 2015 is Kayla Torrinha, who walked away with five distinctions in Afrikaans First Additional Language, Life Orientation, Mathematical Literacy, Life Sciences and Tourism... read
Adopt-a-School profiles its star matriculants

Issued by Adopt-a-School

Pupils from schools supported by education NGO, Adopt-a-School Foundation, shone in their 2015 matric examinations, rising above the difficult circumstances in their social and schooling environments... read
Technology
UJ faculty positions itself to lead the charge on machines that think

Tom Nevin

A new super science venture, the Institute for Intelligent Systems, is being installed in the University of Johannesburg's faculty of engineering... read
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