THE Department of Basic Education and quality assurer Umalusi will be grilled when Parliament reopens this week.
It is not yet clear whether Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will show up for the questioning, or if she will send her director-general Bobby Soobrayan to face the grilling on Wednesday.
The matric pass rate shot up by 7,2percent this year from 60,7percent in 2009. While the increase was welcomed, Umalusi will face questions from the opposition about how and why it adjusted some of the results.
Umalusi said last week that marks were lowered or increased for 19 of the 58 subjects. But it has refused to disclose which subjects had marks adjusted, or why.
Umalusi is also yet to explain why marks for the other 39 subjects were accepted as they were.
Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi said the information was "confidential and highly complex".
In the Western Cape, teachers asked why so few students scored an A for history. They want to know if the marks were lowered.
Umalusi to be grilled over results
THE Department of Basic Education and quality assurer Umalusi will be grilled when Parliament reopens this week.
It is not yet clear whether Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga will show up for the questioning, or if she will send her director-general Bobby Soobrayan to face the grilling on Wednesday.
The matric pass rate shot up by 7,2percent this year from 60,7percent in 2009. While the increase was welcomed, Umalusi will face questions from the opposition about how and why it adjusted some of the results.
Umalusi said last week that marks were lowered or increased for 19 of the 58 subjects. But it has refused to disclose which subjects had marks adjusted, or why.
Umalusi is also yet to explain why marks for the other 39 subjects were accepted as they were.
Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi said the information was "confidential and highly complex".
In the Western Cape, teachers asked why so few students scored an A for history. They want to know if the marks were lowered.
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