South African education lags far behind international benchmarks.
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga announces that the matric class of 2022 achieved an 80.4% pass rate. Picture: ANTONIO MUCHAVE
She clearly isn’t paying attention. A 2019 report by the International Monetary Fund concluded that the country “still suffers from significant challenges in the quality of educational achievement by almost any international metric”. Other studies underscore this. In the 2016 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study , which measured literacy at a grade 4 level in 58 countries, South Africa came stone last. And in the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study , South Africa scored third lowest of 64 countries in both maths and science.
It’s evident, then, that matric results are becoming less meaningful as a gauge of whether we’re preparing children for a role in a future society. Like so much else in South Africa, it’s not a lack of money that’s the problem; it’s a lack of proper management and oversight. Nodada pointed to a Southern and East Africa education study, which revealed that South Africa lagged behind the rest of the continent. “South African teachers struggled to pass tests in the subjects they teach, with grade 6 teachers achieving results of less than 50% — 41% for mathematics, 37% for reading subjects,” he said.
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