Umalusi approves matric results but continues investigation into two leaked papers
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town – The quality assurance examination board, Umalusi, has approved the release of the 2020 National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination results, with the council revealing it found no irregularities that could have compromised the credibility of the exams.
Umalusi Council chairperson John Volmink told the media at a briefing on Monday, that the results of matrics implicated in group copying and paper leakages would be withheld.
Volmink said the executive committee of the council had approved the release of the Department of Basic Education (DBE) results of the November 2020 NSC based on available evidence that the examinations were administered in accordance with the examination policies and regulations despite the identified irregularities.
Marking of matric exam papers on track
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - Education experts, activists and unions said they are confident that matric marking processes are still on track to be finalised by the weekend, with some centres already completed.
Stellenbosch University’s curriculum studies department chairperson, Professor Michael le Cordeur, said he was confident with the basic education department s progress on marking of Grade 12 scrips even with everything that happened last year.
Le Cordeur said he was aware that the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training (Umalusi) was sitting to verify the results, a thorough process that would take time, the best part of the month, to be exactly – January 20 till February 22.
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) has little capacity to ensure that quality education takes place in an average school year. This is for a multitude of reasons ranging from historical legacies to poor implementation. The department needs to face up to its limitations: it’s not going to improve teacher quality this year, nor will all our children get access to online learning (which I don’t believe is the solution in our context anyway).
But, through its curriculum and assessment policies, it does have the power and the capacity to create a more flexible educational environment that is conducive to meaningful learning during Covid-19.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has alerted us to a number of deeper issues that have been hidden under the narratives of performativity, writes
Chris Reddy.
So what will schools look like post Covid-19?
Nobody knows and it s difficult to risk a prediction offhand since this pandemic is an unprecedented occurrence we have never been required to deal with hitherto.
What we do know is what schools and what the education system looked like before this pandemic and we can probably speculate on what we might want things to be like, based on revelations that the virus and the resultant pandemic left in its wake. This think piece is based on such a speculation, working from where we were and are to where we might want to go and be in education and schooling.