Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nMarking for the 2025 matric exam has not been a simple task, with an investigation detecting alleged corruption among DBE staff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Markers were alerted when examination papers were in line with the marking guidelines. After alerting the department, an investigation revealed that 40 pupils had accessed the exams before taking them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leak affected 40 pupils in the Pretoria area, specifically the English, Maths, and Physical Science papers. One of the now-suspended DBE officials had a child writing the exams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leak has sparked debates over the government’s integrity in the marking process. The VF Plus said that the leak could erode trust in public education,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The political party also called on the government to lessen its monopoly on final examinations, as parents will start looking into independent education if the government can’t get its ducks in order. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the DBE said that the leak actually highlighted its skill set, as its own markets had highlighted the issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover, it noted that the leak was contained to only 40 students, who make up a tiny percentage of the total matric cohort for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DBE also noted that more independent schools use its services than the IEB and the South African Comprehensive Assessment Institute (SACAI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCalls for public schools to \u2018choose which examination board they wish to use\u2019 or for the DBE to relinquish its constitutional mandate are not only short-sighted and impractical,\u201d the DBE said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey also undermine the efforts and resources invested in building a national examination system that is legally sound, internationally benchmarked, and recognised nationally and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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South Africa’s matric pass rate has reached a record level of 88%, less than one percentage point higher than 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":847505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[8447,19133],"class_list":["post-847709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-dbe","tag-ieb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847709"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847750,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847709\/revisions\/847750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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