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The Western Cape Education Department (abbreviated WCED) is the department of the Government of the Western Cape responsible for primary and secondary education within the Western Cape province of South Africa. The political leader of the department is the Provincial Minister of Education; as of 2009 this is Donald Grant. [1]
The Independent Examinations Board (IEB) is a South African independent assessment agency which offers examinations for various client schools, mostly private schools.It is most prominent in setting examinations for the school-leaving National Senior Certificate (NSC) examination, a qualification that replaced the Senior Certificate and Further Education and Training Certificate.
Basic Education in South Africa takes place in primary and secondary level from Grade 1 (6 - 7-year-olds) to Grade 12 (18 - 20-year-olds). Students who succeed in Grade 12 graduate with a matriculation certificate , which enables them to transition to tertiary level education.
The first formal examination was conducted in South Africa under the University of the Cape of Good Hope in 1858. [ 1 ] In general usage, the school-leaving exams, which are government-administered, are known as the "matric exams"; by extension, students in the final year of high school ( grade 12 ) are known as "matriculants" or, more commonly ...
Aug : In a Portfolio Committee meeting on Basic Education on 7 August 2012 the Department of Education stated that “the Department is currently developing policy in respect of home schooling”* 8 : The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) publishes the same notice of 2010 in local papers again. The Association for Homeschooling wrote a ...
In South Africa, the grading system used in secondary schools until 2008 (when the education minister implemented Outcomes Based Education or OBE curriculum) was as follows: Format: Code [x] ([Symbol]): [y]% - [z]%
Western Cape Education Department. Archived from the original on 16 April 2009 This page was last edited on 26 January 2025, at 01:33 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is one of the departments of the South African government.It oversees primary and secondary education in South Africa.It was created in 2009 after the election of President Jacob Zuma, when the former Department of Education was divided into the Department of Basic Education and the Department of Higher Education and Training.