Matric results 'manipulated' 
It would appear to me that the pass percentage for the 2010 exam results is being manipulated to make the Department of Education (read Minister) look good.
I quote: "The Chief Director of Exams Nkosinathi Sishi said 364 513 pupils passed their exams. There were 643 546 candidates who sat for the exams, of whom 537 543 wrote all seven subjects."
If one calculates the number of learners that passed as a percentage of the learners that "wrote all seven subjects" then the figure of 67.8% is correct.
But what happened to the 106 003 learners, the difference between the 643 546 candidates, who sat the exam and the 537 543 candidates who wrote all seven subjects?
They seem to mysteriously have fallen into one of the gaping cracks in the South African education system.
Calculating the number of learners who passed as a percentage of the number who "sat" the exam one gets a new and more realistic figure of 56.6%.
This would appear to me to be the true percentage as surely those that did not complete the exams must still remain part of the statistics.
I don't know how the number-crunching was done last year, so cannot comment whether the percentage is up or down on last year.
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SA Education system the 4th worst in the world according to Newsweek
Bottom of the pile - Newsweek‘s (16 August 2010) list of the world’s best countries put South Africa at 82nd overall, and ranks our education system 97th out of 100, which is 4th from the bottom. South Africa’s education performance is even ranked below countries like Mozambique, Bangladesh and Iran, states less wealthy or less free.
Let's be honest: our dysfunctional education system cannot continue as is. We've known this for a long time, and now the international community knows it. We've won a pitiful "race to the bottom", something for which we should feel ashamed. Now it's time to make the hard decisions, commit to a standard of excellence, and get our education system on track.
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