Learners at Allen Glen High School in Gauteng were lucky to avoid serious injury after a motorist knocked down students with their car.

Learners will, from 15 October 2018, enter one of the 8 000 examination centres around the country to write their matric exams.

You still have time to find a course of study for 2018…

The landscape is bleak, but the future doesn’t have to be

Benedict Nafooh Khobotle is not your average student. To all intents and purposes, he’s superhuman

These boys have let their results do the talking

Didn’t get what you wanted? No stress. The world is still very much your oyster

The matric results of 2017 will only be officially out on Friday, but the pass rate for the country was announced on Thursday by  Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga. She says that the NSC pass rate has consistently stayed above the 70% mark over the last seven years and lauded the 2017 matrics for […]

Matriculants from all over South Africa will receive their results on 5 January 2018. Remember, though, that these are just your results, not your official certificate. You can usually only collect your official matric certificate from your school in a few months. To find out when exactly, it is best to contact your schools. For […]

Matic learners face an anxious wait for their exam results with millions of answer sheets to be marked.

A high number of matric students face a struggle to get to their exams today

Earlier this week it was reported that the pass rate in schools could be lowered even further, but the department of basic education quickly set the record straight on what it labelled misleading media reports.

The Department of Education has suggested a plan to allow students who struggle with matric to stagger their exams over a two-year period.

A 24-hour helpline has been established to help matrics who might be struggling to cope with the results they received.

The tiny fishing village of Hawston, located close to Hermanus, has a new, unlikely hero.

Following the decrease in the mathematics 2014 matric results, education experts have highlighted the lack of basic mathematics skills meant to be learned in lower grades as a factor in this outcome.

It has taken almost 50 years for a school in Mitchell’s Plain to achieve a 100% matric pass rate. Not since the community’s inception in the 1970s has a school in the area managed to ensure that each of its pupils not only made the grade but also excelled at maths and science.

The matric pass rate is seen as perhaps the most important indicator of education in South Africa. But with fewer and fewer pupils actually reaching and finishing matric, it is extremely short sighted.

Do you “only need 30% to pass matric” in South Africa? It is a claim you hear every year at this time and one that has been given credence on social media and by some academics and politicians. But the claim is misleading. Here’s why.

A focus on the matric results obscures problems lower down in the education system, writes Wim Louw.

Hesitant cheer among adults has greeted jubilation among school-leavers: South Africa’s 2013 report card is the best since 1994. But what does having a Matric pass really mean?