Teachers urged to put emphasis on subjects in demand

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Professor Chika Sehoole from the University of Pretoria has urged teachers to put emphasis on subjects that are in demand.

This after the Basic Education Department Angie Motshekga announced that the class of 2023 has achieved an 82.9% pass rate.

This is an increase of 2.8% points, compared to the pass rate of 2022. Sehoole says more needs to be done to improve the quality of education.

“We really also need to look at what this matric pass means because there are certain gateway subjects that are needed that learners need to have to have passed well in order to be able to have access to some of the opportunities available in higher education and in the economy and I think we are not doing well in that.”

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The class of 2023 has achieved a record-high pass rate, standing at 82.9% surpassing the 80.1% recorded in 2022.

The Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has described as heartening the improvement in the Mathematics pass rate from 55% in 2022 to 63.5% in 2023.

She says this confirms that the department’s drive to increase the number of learners that can study Science and Technology has started to bear fruit.

Class of 2023 by SABC Digital News

Motshekga released the 2023 matric results in Randburg, Johannesburg on Thursday.

“In terms of performances in Maths and provinces which have more learners taking Maths there’s KwaZulu-Natal leading sitting at 47.5%, less to get to the threshold. But in terms of achievements in your Maths passes, we have the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng. This is the achieved higher percentage in terms of pass rate in Maths and technical subjects and we also have more bachelors coming from Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape.”

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