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Matric class of 2025 achieves 88% pass rate
1+ hour, 59+ min ago (158+ words) Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube JOHANNESBURG - Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced the 2025 National Senior Certificate results on Monday evening. The NSC pass rate is 88% - an increase of around 0.7% from 2024. READ: IEB bachelor pass rate slightly declines 88% is the highest…...
Those implicated exam leak pupils to wait longer for results
11+ hour, 44+ min ago (319+ words) A pupil preparing for the exams. GettyImages/epicurean JOHANNESBURG - The Department of Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube announced that pupils implicated in the exam paper leaks will have to wait longer for their results. This gives time for investigations to…...
Top 2025 matric achievers honoured ahead of results announcement
15+ hour ago (164+ words) JOHANNESBURG - Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube honoured the country's top 40 matric achievers at a Ministerial breakfast on Monday. READ: IEB achieves overall 98.3% pass rate The day gave off a moment of both celebration for the pupils and appreciation to teachers…...
Gwarube to announce 2025 matric results
16+ hour, 2+ min ago (97+ words) JOHANNESBURG - Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube will announce the overall 2025 matric results on Monday evening The Minister and the Deputy Minister of Basic Education, Reginah Mhaule, will also announce the top-performing pupils and provincial results. READ | IEB achieves overall 98.3% pass…...
Umalusi to pronounce on 2025 matric results ahead of release
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (71+ words) PRETORIA - Quality assurer Umalusi will pronounce on the 2025 matric results for both public and private schools. It comes just days before the official release of results next week. READ: Class of 2025 | Umalusi confident it's all systems go Basic Education Minister…...
Court orders fired principal to be reinstated
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (180+ words) CAPE TOWN - A Cape Town principal who was fired for refusing to reopen his school during the COVID-19 pandemic has won his case for reinstatement. The matter dates back to September 2020, when the Western Cape Education Department issued a directive…...
Chinese homeschool students embrace freer youth in cutthroat market
1+ week, 6+ day ago (795+ words) BEIJING - Fourteen-year-old Estella spends her weekdays studying Spanish, rock climbing or learning acupuncture in her living room as part of her homeschooling since she left China's gruelling public school system. Her parents'withdrew her from her Shanghai school three years ago,…...
UCT maintains eviction decision as affected students cry foul
2+ week, 14+ hour ago (134+ words) CAPE TOWN - The University of Cape Town is standing by its decision to evict students from Philip Kgosana residence just three days before Christmas. The Western Cape High Court granted the eviction order in August. UCT says the students were…...
UCT students claim wrongful eviction
2+ week, 1+ day ago (161+ words) UCT students claim wrongful eviction'eNCA UCT students claim wrongful eviction CAPE TOWN - A group of UCT students are living in a parking lot after what they claim was a wrongful eviction. The postgraduate students say they were wrongfully and forcibly…...
Canada launches billion dollar plan to recruit top researchers
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (351+ words) CANADA - "On Tuesday Canada launched a CAN$1.7 billion ($1.2 billion) program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to poach intellectual talent looking to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump's policies. Top Canadian institutions "including the…...