No marks for 1 000 matrics yet

A THOUSAND matrics from the class of 2012, most of them home-schooled, will have to wait another two weeks to know if they have passed, the Basic Education Department said yesterday.

The pupils did not receive their marks last week, jeopardising their chances of getting into university.

The delay has been put down to a breakdown in communication between the private examination boards, which administer the marks of these private candidates, the department and the National Senior Certificate quality watchdog, Umalusi.

According to the department, it was waiting for the pupils’ school-based scores – the test and practical marks gathered through the year – which count for 25 percent of the final average.

Luke Scott, who attended The Haven Academy in Kloof, and Mason Gregorowski, from the Thousand Hills College in Bothas Hill, said their matric results from the department stated that they had been absent from the exams.

Pestalozzi Trust head and lawyer, Leendert van Oostrum, who is representing 700 pupils who did not receive their results, blamed the education department for the problem.