South Africa's Grade 5 pupils have been ranked last out of 59 countries in maths and science in an international standardised ...

Grades 5 and 9 learners from South Africa were ranked the lowest compared to other countries in the world in mathematics and ...

Education experts in South Africa are calling for a focus on foundational teaching methods to address the decline in mathematics performance among Grade 5 and 9 pupils, as highlighted by the latest ...

South African students performed abysmally in an international standardised benchmarking survey for mathematics and science.

South Africa’s grade 5 and grade 9 learners have ranked poorly in the 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...

English literature and maths - being the first to be graded in numbers. By 2020, all subjects were using the new grading system. The highest grade is 9, while 1 is the lowest, and U means "ungraded".