SA High School Results are complicated
Vukosi Marivate
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RT @Mabine_Seabe: #AngieMustGo RT @alexeliseev: My quote of the day, courtesy of Angie Motshekga: “If my best was not enough, tough luck” (via #CityPress)
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The IEB Argument hides , lets look at what Mabine Says
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The fact that the number of students who passed went up by 3.7%, from 70.2% in 2011 to 73.9% in 2012, should be applauded. Despite this, only a handful (26.6%) of learners achieved marks which will enable them to study at one of the country’s universities. If we compare this to the IEB results, where 98.2% of learners passed and 83.6% qualify to further their studies at a university, by my calculations, there is a crisis in the public education system. – Source http://bit.ly/UFPDBV
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The above IEB comparison argument has cons and pros1. The IEB result show that well resourced schools with a good chunk of money do well overall. They do not say that giving students the IEB exam makes them better. The disparity in SA schools in terms of resources is crazy. Couple that with the messed up funding Quantile model that at the end seems to give poor schools less money to run so have less quality teachers and guess what, if we broke up the matric results would show that the poor schools perform worse than the (mostly still) well resourced “former model c” schools. So here I agree with EE, lets get the minimum norms set up (http://www.equaleducation.org.za)
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Improved matric results hide reality
The vastly improved matric results Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga announced on Wednesday obscured the realities poor schools fa… -
2. Has South Africa in the last 10 years built universities and colleges that I do not know of? At the moment South Africa does not have the capacity to even absorb the 26.6% who have qualified with endorsement for a degree program. Just imagine then if it was the same as IEB. What would we do? Will SA pay to send the rest outside the country to skill themselves or will we leave it to the completely private education sector to provide for a majority of matriculants. How do we then make it affordable for the masses who surely come from low income families.3. More connected to one, if the whole country was at 98% pass rate for grade 12 learners we would have solved the international education problem. I have to be more realistic here and say that I do not think the DBE knows that it has been tasked with solving the international education problem. Meaning the challenge of almost everyone passes and almost everyone goes to University. Looking at the pass (graduation) rates of the top OECD countries, the best ones have pass rates around 96%. These being Portugal, Slovenia, Japan etc. Most of the western countries have separate entrance exams for universities not tied to the 12th grade pass requirements. This accomplishes a number of things, the best schools tend to choose the best performing learners from the entrance exams. At the same time, with limited spaces it controls for the supply-demand tradeoff.
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Global Graduation Rates By Country (Source: OECD)
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The 50% Dropout Rate, is it really 50%
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The even greater crisis is the number of learners who do not get to Matric. According to lobby group, Equal Education, just over 50% of learners who started Grade 1 in 2001 actually made it to Grade 12. Too many students do not make it through the education system, which the Minister claims is not facing a crisis. Source http://bit.ly/UFPDBV
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I have found it very hard to interpret what Equal education is saying. There is a difference between saying that 50% of kids did not reach grade 12, from grade 1, in 12 years than all 50% of them have dropped out, which is what Mabine is using here. My significant other has also poured cold water on this one, it doesn’t add up. Are we saying every year we have 500000 kids dropping out of school and doing what?
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Politicsweb – 32.9% of those who started school passed matric – Equal Education – FEATURES
Organisation says huge numbers (51%) drop out between Grade 10 and NSC exams Improvement in Matric pass rate positive, but many ‘born fre… -
More from Mabine on the 30% Pass Mark Issue
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A contentious issue is that learners are passing certain subjects with 30%. This is a huge problem, especially in the context of preparing learners for studying at institutions of higher learning, where a pass for all subjects is 50%. There should be a standardised level of achievement at both secondary and tertiary levels. By setting a low standard at the secondary level and a higher standard at the tertiary level, students are entering university ill-prepared. Source http://bit.ly/UFPDBV
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I will use my own tweet to debunk this one (Note: I am still trying to track down the source that Citypress used)
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@dawn_ngwenya @khayadlanga @shakasisulu But only 1.8% of students passed with marks between 30 – 39%. bit.ly/UrGQzN
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There are a lot of things we can fight for to improve education. We have to have learners more prepared for the step to higher education. We have to have more participation of communities and parents in their schools and children’s future. We have to have the schools well resourced and the places of learning being safe but we must be careful what we ask for with the populist talking points we throw around that do not connect with what actually has to be done on the ground. This is one of the reasons why the Matric pass rate just increases, because the DBE thinks that is just what we want. Just more passes won’t solve the problem.
