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Enhancing Education for the 21st Century: A Roadmap to Success

This portfolio highlights the progress and key initiatives undertaken by the Committee on Basic Education for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) Examination in 2016. It emphasizes principles like Access, Redress, Equity, Efficiency, and Quality, while focusing on the skills required by the 21st-century learner. The document outlines efforts towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG4) and aligning with the National Development Plan for improving basic education quality. It also covers the Action Plan towards Schooling 2030 and the positive outcomes seen in the NSC Examination results, reflecting improved performance in international assessments.

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Enhancing Education for the 21st Century: A Roadmap to Success

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  1. PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON BASIC EDUCATION 2016 NSC EXAMINATION 14 February 2017

  2. A SYSTEM ON THE RISE TIMSS 2015 2

  3. Introduction 3

  4. PRINCIPLES PRINCIPLES UNDERPINNING EDUCATION PERFORMANCE: • Access • Redress • Equity • Efficiency • Quality 4

  5. SKILLS SKILLS TO BE REFLECTED BY THE 21st CENTURY LEARNER: • Critical Thinking • Problem Solving • Creativity and Innovation • Teamwork • Social Justice and Human Rights 5

  6. Sustainable Development Goals (SDG4) Towards inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 6

  7. National Development Plan • Improving the quality of Basic Education has been articulated in the National Development Plan (NDP), Vision 2030,Our future – Make it work. • The Education Sector has aligned its medium-term and annual performance plans towards improving: • the nutrition of learners, • building more safe schools/improving school infrastructure in rural areas, • ensuring every child in “no-fee” schools has access to workbooks, • improving the competency and capacity of school principals to be effective leaders and • building more teacher development centres to support the improvement in teacher content knowledge and pedagogical practice. 7

  8. Action Plan 2019 In terms of Action Plan to 2019: Towards the realisation of Schooling 2030, the output goals focussing on minimum quality standards in the Further Education and Training Band include: • Increase the number of Grade 12 learners who become eligible for a Bachelors programme at University’; • Increase the number of Grade 12 learners who pass Mathematics; and • Increase the number of Grade 12 learners who pass Physical Science 8

  9. NSC Examination • National Senior Certificate examination results is one of the most important barometers to evaluate the success of the sector. • Progress in the sector has noted in the recent cycles of international and regional assessment programmes. • TIMSS (2015) has confirmed that South Africa has shown the largest improvement since 2003 – 87 points in Maths and 90 points in Science 9

  10. The Class of 2016 10

  11. Profile: Class of 2016 • Ninth (9th) cohort of learners to sit for the National Senior Certificate (NSC) and third (3rd) cohort to write CAPS aligned NSC Examinations. • The 2016 cohort has benefited from maturity of the system garnered over the last seven years. • Learners entered the formal schooling system in January 2005, just after an important curriculum revision was implemented. • Internal Efficiency of the School System Report (2013) indicates that already in 2002, 40% of five-year-olds were enrolled at an educational institution. • Given the Age Admission Policy, the majority of these five-year-olds could have been enrolled in the reception year (Grade R). 11

  12. Scope and Size of 2016 NSC Examinations

  13. NSC Full Time Enrolments: 2012 - 2016

  14. 2016 NSC Full Time Entered versus Wrote 14

  15. Candidates who wrote 7 or more for the 2015 & 2016 NSC Examinations 15

  16. Candidates who wrote 7 or more, - 2015 & 2016 NSC Examinations 16

  17. NSC Part Time Enrolments: 2012 - 2016 17

  18. NSC 2016 Progressed Learners per Province 18

  19. Historical Trends

  20. The Number of Candidates Passing Matric since 1970 20

  21. NSC Performance: 2010 to 2016 21

  22. Overall Performance 22

  23. Overall Performance – 2015 & 2016 (Progressed Learners Included) 23

  24. Progressed Learners Excluded 24

  25. Progressed Learners Only 25

  26. Overall Performance (Progressed Included (2016) 26

  27. Progressed Learners Excluded 27

  28. Progressed Learners Only 28

  29. NSC Passes by Type of Qualification, 2016 29

  30. Bachelor Pass Trend (Percentage): 2009 -2016 30

  31. Bachelor Pass Trend (Numbers): 2009 - 2016 31

  32. Bachelor Passes (Numbers) per Province: 2016 32

  33. Percentage of Bachelor Passes per Province 2015-2016 33

  34. NSC Passes by Type of Qualification per Quintile: 2016 34

  35. NSC Bachelor Passes per Quintile, 2015 – 2016 35

  36. Performance based on Gender 36

  37. School Performance within different Percentage Categories

  38. Schools performance within different percentage categories, 2015 - 2016 38

  39. Schools performance within different percentage categories, 2015 - 2016 39

  40. Schools that obtained 100% pass: 2012 - 2016

  41. School Performance by Quintiles

  42. School performance by Quintile - 2016

  43. Subject Performance

  44. Candidates’ performance in selected subjects, 2011 – 2016 (at 30% level) 44

  45. Candidates’ performance in selected subjects, 2011 – 2016 (at 40% level) 45

  46. Mathematics achieved at 30% & 40% level, 2010 - 2016

  47. Physical Sciences achieved at 30% & 40% level, 2010 - 2016 47

  48. Candidates Performance in Home Languages (at 40% & above) 2014 - 2016 48

  49. Number and percentage of distinctions in the 12 Key Subjects: 2015 and 2016 49

  50. District Performance

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