The full rollout of the General Education Certificate has been pushed back.
The Department of Basic Education is pushing ahead with its plans to introduce a new school certificate for grade 9 learners – but the full rollout will now be a year later, in 2025.
The minister said that the extended pilot period will provide the department with “further learnings” on how to strengthen the quality of the assessment tools used for the certificate, and how to better infuse these tools into school-based assessments and how to generate a holistic GEC report card for learners.
In 2023, on top of the pilot extending to more schools, the number of participating schools will also represent schools of skill and all 75 education districts, with further up-scaling planned for 2024. In 2025, all schools are expected to participate in the GEC at the grade 9 level. Under the current system, hundreds of students leave the school system each year without a qualification, hindering them from finding jobs, the department said. If these learners have a certificate, they can at least move on to some other form of training.
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