SA prison matric pass rate better than the national average
SABC News reports that the country’s prisoners who wrote the 2015 matric exams achieved a higher pass rate than the national average.
The 2015 matric exam national pass rate dropped to 70.7%, Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga said on Tuesday.
This was down from 75.8% achieved in 2014, she said at the release of the results in Midrand, Johannesburg.
If so-called “progressed learners” had not been added to the total, the pass rate would have been 74%.
These were pupils who failed Grade 11 twice and were promoted to Grade 12 without meeting the passing criteria.
Some 200 inmates who wrote the 2015 matric exams showed an improved pass rate of 73%.
Acting Chief Deputy Commissioner, Department of Correctional Service Dr Joey Coetzee told Morning Live, that access to education forms the basis for all the rehabilitation programmes offered to the inmates.
“Illiteracy has a close link to criminal behavior. That is why we as the department offer a system that allows inmates a chance not to leave the prison system after 10 or 15 years still illiterate.”
“These results will hopefully give them a chance of building a better future for themselves,” Coetzee said.
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