Is South Africa's education system winning its battle to get more students to excel in Mathematics and Physical Sciences?

Fewer than 10 000 pupils in the country got distinctions for maths and only 1.2% of those who wrote the simpler version of maths literacy got a distinction. Hinting the matric pass rate would increase ...

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 ...

Education Minister Naledi Pandor tried this week to calm the nerves of parents, teachers and learners about the new matric exam to be written in two months’ time. Standard-grade exam papers will not ...

The quality of matric mathematics has been heavily criticised by many experts. Head of Department of the Wits School of Mathematics Betsie Jonck previously told MyBroadband that students are entering ...

The national demands for high-level and scarce skills — particularly in the areas of science, engineering and technology (SET) — require that higher education institutions pay attention to both the ...

The 2022 edition of the Primestars Mathematics and Science Revision Programme, sponsored by Liberty, has officially been launched. The annual initiative is aimed at supporting under-resourced ...

We can’t tell our South African Grade 12 maths story without mentioning maths literacy. Does it make sense for learners who could obtain a quality pass in mathematics not to take it, and rather go for ...

The national matric maths and physical science pass rates both saw an increase in 2016. In 2015, the maths pass rate dipped below the 50% mark, after only 49.1% of pupils across the country who wrote ...

Limpopo matric pupils will not need to rewrite a maths paper after it was leaked, the basic education department said on Monday. Only a few pupils were involved in the leak, and they had been ...

Matric maths teachers in KwaZulu-Natal performed dismally when tested with a past matric maths paper, The Star reported on Monday. Research was carried out with 253 teachers in the province to ...