SA has a low university admission rate - BOSA's Maimane
Build One SA (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane said that only 15% of the learners who recently passed matric would get into university.
FILE: Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane. Picture: Jacques Nelles/EWN
CAPE TOWN - Build One SA (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane said that only 15% of the learners who recently passed matric would get into university.
He said the current education system was in a crisis and continued to produce dropouts.
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The BOSA leader added that of the 1.2 million learners who started grade one in 2013, only 51% of them completed their matric last year.
Maimane said that the recent matric results served as a reminder that the country's education system needed a review.
"Furthermore, we have a low university admission rate. Just 47% of the learners achieved a bachelor's pass, which means that when you assess, the Department of Education likes to boldly say there's no such thing as a 30% pass. But the National Senior Certificate requires that a learner passes at least three subjects at 30%. So this idea that there's no 30% is fictitious."