Cape Town school celebrates rise in university passes
Cape Town – A school in Philippi in Cape Town has seen its matric pass rate drop to below 70%, but for the principal of Zisukhanyo Senior Secondary there is a silver lining as a greater number of his pupils have achieved the all-important Bachelor pass which allows for entry into university.
The class of 2017 achieved an overall pass rate of 75.1%, with the Western Cape coming in third with 84.4%, behind the Free State and Gauteng. The National Senior Certificate (NSC) Examination Results for 2017 were announced by South Africa’s Minister of Basic Education Angie Motshekga on Thursday night.
Babini Fatyela, principal at Zisukhanyo Senior Secondary in Samora Machel, told the African News Agency (ANA) on Friday that the school’s pass rate had dropped from 76.8% to 69.1%, a difference of 7.7%.
However, he said the school was highly delighted with the quality of the results which showed in the number of Bachelor passes which had shot up from 40% in 2016 to 52.3% in 2017.
Source: iol.co.za
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