Tag: Matrics

5 Matric students chosen for scientific outing to Antarctica

The students won a contest to travel to Antarctica with a team of scientists.

The tumultuous 2020 Matric exams enter the final week

Matric students and their support systems have just seven days to go.

Department of Basic Education threatens Matrics with exam rewrites

After the leak of Mathematics Paper 2 rewrites may be on the cards for students.

Mathematics paper leaked hours before Matrics wrote it

The DBE has confirmed that Mathematics Paper 2 leaked in Gauteng and Limpopo.

DBE releases guidelines for COVID-19-positive Matrics

The Department of Basic Education outlines how COVID-19-positive Matrics can write their exams.

Matric exams 2020: ‘Candidates are advised to be extra cautious’

The DBE espouses more advice to the Matric class writing during the pandemic.

COVID-19 positive students will now be allowed to write Matric exams

Matrics who have contracted the coronavirus will write at secluded venues.

htxt.africast – SA education in 2020 and the digital divide

We’ve brought in two local experts on the South African education sector for this week’s africast, focusing on a chaotic 2020 and what next year may hold.

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Five apps that can help you through school

Want to brushup on your studies outside of school? There are apps for that!

#MATRIC2016: Matrics battling with anxiety can get help from counselling hotline

Anxious and stressed matrics and parents can get counselling from the Department of Social Development’s hotline.

Every South African public school’s 2015 matric passrate, mapped

Want to see how your local secondary school has fared over the years?

How to get matric 2016 results by SMS or web

#Matric2016 results will be announced on 5th Jan, so get set up to get yours now.

Gauteng’s digital classroom project fails to perform at matric

htxt.africa had a look at how some of the schools under the Classrooms of the Future matrics did in 2015 compared to 2014.

[MAP MONDAY] The state of maths education in Diepsloot visualised

The average maths pass mark in Diepsloot high schools is between 20% and 40%.

MAT-LINK crowdfunding cash to help disadvantaged matrics apply for varsity

MAT-LINK’s ambitious goal is to eradicate late tertiary applications by 2020.

[INTERVIEW] It’s not a MOOC: How University of the People plans to reduce the cost of education

University of People, has opened 1 000 for students wanting to study business administration and computer science.

How to get into computer science if your matric wasn’t what you wanted

What options are available to those who haven’t got the matrics they wanted but do want to study computers?