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The written reply contains an estimated dropout rate for those born between 1990 and 1992.
We asked the department of basic education to provide more recent calculations if they were available, but it failed to respond to our query.According to the department of basic education, pupils leave school prematurely for reasons including pregnancy, the need to take care of ill parents or younger siblings, poverty and ukuthwala,The completion rate typically does not take into account Grade 12-level qualifications obtained outside the school system.
The working paper looked at Grade 12 completion rates in 14 countries, including Turkey, Brazil and Chile, based on data from 2003 to 2009. South Africa was ranked 12th. were available – for the five years from 2014 to last year – and found that 38 countries had lower completion rates than South Africa.
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