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18 February 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Our #BackOnTrack extra Saturday classes for the 2025 school year kicked off on Saturday, 15 February 2025. I visited Thembani Primary School in Langa to see the programme in action and welcome learners to their extra classes. ...
11 February 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Despite severe budget constraints, the Western Cape Government is expanding access to education across our province. We have completed 283 new classrooms in January 2025, including new schools in Lwandle, Wallacedene, Blue ...
6 February 2025
Statement by Minister Brent Walters, Head of Department, WCED This past week, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) received various videos of learners allegedly attacking one another both in and out of school. Many of the images are deeply disturbing. The WCED is engaging with each of the ...
30 January 2025
Western Cape Education Department National Senior Certificate Examinations 2024 Awards to Schools In the first category, schools are awarded in terms of Improvement in pass rate, greatest increase in the percentage of candidates achieving access to Bachelor’s degree studies, improvement and ...
28 January 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape Our annual systemic test results for 2024 show that we are making good progress in getting our children’s learning #BackOnTrack, with selected scores surpassing pre-Covid-19 levels. The pass rates for both Grade 9 Mathematics ...
21 January 2025
Statement by Minister David Maynier, Minister of Education Western Cape A Stellenbosch University report evaluating the impact of our #BackOnTrack learning recovery programme has found that the intervention works and is reversing learning losses in the Western Cape. The #BackOnTrack programme is ...