Cape Town, Tuesday 23 January 2018 – With so much pressure already on learners in their matric year, parents often assume that taking part in events outside of the school curriculum will place unnecessary additional stress on their children. But Philip Visage, a former learner at Hoërskool Hugenote, has proven this assumption wrong.

Johannesburg, Tuesday 23 January 2018 – In terms of education, one of the biggest drawbacks of South Africa’s rapid urbanisation is that, because of intellectual migration, good teaching becomes concentrated in the urban areas—leaving leaners in rural provinces exposed to ‘low quality’ teaching. This is particularly true in the Eastern Cape, where matric passes were the lowest in the country for the eighth year in a row.

Johannesburg, Wednesday 17 January 2018 – With so much pressure already on learners in their matric year, parents often worry that if they let their children take part in events outside of the school curriculum, they will place unnecessary additional stress on them. But the 2017 matric results reveal that often just the opposite is the case!