A high proportion of South Africans complete grade 12 despite evidence of learning gaps – how is this possible?
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What are the prospects for young South Africans once they’ve left school?
The fanfare and hype around the results risks obscuring the big picture.
The way a parent or caregiver responds in this situation is extremely important.
South Africa’s Department of Basic Education is more concerned about the proportion of pupils that pass to make school leavers and their parents happy.
What’s taught in South African schools is at odds with the skills pupils need for the post-school world.
Disruptions to schooling at the lower grades should be remedied, otherwise there could be a serious impact on the quality of Matriculants a decade or more from now.
Performance in mathematics matters for university entrance. Without it, school leavers are not eligible for many programmes.
Many of the privileges that middle-class students enjoy are not obvious, even to themselves.
Some critics argue that the new certificate may encourage more pupils to drop out of school. But we argue that it is a positive move.
Universities have both a responsibility and a degree of potential influence on public schooling that set them apart and impose a special duty of leadership.
South African universities are failing to graduate the strongest students the schooling system has to offer.
The political cost of corruption is reaching unacceptable levels in South Africa. Reversing the effects of state decay on the poor will take short and long term interventions.
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