The 2010 matric pass rate of 67.8 percent, up from 60.6 percent in 2009, was welcomed yesterday, but the underlying picture shows that there are still too few scholars writing and passing maths and ...

The government celebrated the 88% matric pass rate in 2025, but it did not say that only 5% of children who start grade 1 achieve 50% in mathematics at matric.

A record-breaking 88% National Senior Certificate (NSC) pass rate, achieved by the largest cohort of learners in the country’s history, is being applauded, quite rightly, as a “hallmark of resilience” ...

This year, close to one million youngsters are sitting down to write the National Senior Certificate examinations in 6 800 centres around the country. Last week Friday, learners sat for the ...

Pretoria - The leaking of a matric exam paper has raised questions about the Department of Basic Education’s (DBE) tighter security measures. The department found out that the maths paper 2 had been ...