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South Africa's learners

power Brain Mining South Africa's richest natural resource South Africa needs university graduates! The country must reinvent its economy and doing so requires a large pool of skilled workers to create, manage and run globally competitive companies. This inforgraphic looks at how well South Africa's education system is transitioning learners from secondary to tertiary education OMaking the grade South Africa's 2011 70% National Senior Certificate Exam (NSCE) pass was praised as evidence of progress towards higher enroll- ment in higher education. Yet this figure needs further explanation for two reasons. Frist, it ignores the total number of appropriate age learners. Second, the pass rate encompasses three different qualifications - bachelor studies, diploma studies, certification studies. It is unclear how valuable is each qualification is and what the country should strive for. So this inforgraphic uses national averages to look at the path of 100 hypothetical learners 100 learners Simpler Math Visual Enter 9th grade 100 * (1-.46) 54 remaining learners 46% Percenter of learners that drop out before writing their NSCE (2011) OThe Exam 2 54 * (1-.3) 38 70% remaining learners Reported NSCE PASS RATE 30% < FAIL Total number of appropriate age leaners Total number of learners 38 / 100 that pass the NSCE 38% Pass rate of appropriate age South Africans OThe Qualified Of the 54% of learners that make it to their NSCE each test taker falls into 1 of 4 categories. The disribution of results, excluding the 30% that fail outright, looks like this: 13/ 100 learners who started 9th grade 24% or 13% qualified for admission to bachelor degree studies 29% 16 / 100 learners who started 9th grade or qualified for admission to diploma studies 15% 17% or 9/ 100 learners who started 9th grade qualified for admission to certificate studies 9% Bachelor Pad 4 In order to move to a higher value-added and knowledge-based economy South Africa needs University graduates. This statement is not inteded to dismiss the value of diploma and certificate studies but does question the indicators the government chooses to highlight. The data suggests the current higher education system is missing the mark. Out of 100, we're left with 13 13* (1-5) 50%< 6.5 University Drop-out rate 6.5 out of 100 = probability of grade 9 learner earning a University degree 100 Only 10% of university students come from public secondary schools. That means.. ~1% Chances a publicly educated South African will attain a University degree Sourcęs: Report on the National Senior Certificate Examination (2011),Technical Report. Department of Basic Education Sheppard, Charlęs (2009), The State of Youth in South Africa: Trends in Education Attainment, Human Sciencęs Research Council By: Chris Barkley e ee ee

South Africa's learners

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This infograph looks briefly at South Africa's performance transitioning learners from secondary to tertiary institutions

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