LISTEN | 30% pass rate comments 'ill-informed' and an 'insult to pupils'

And what about comments that matric results have only improved because the pass rate is so low?

“There’s something I see on Twitter all the time, this national sense that people can pass matric with 30%,” says Metcalfe.

“It is absolutely ill-informed and inaccurate, and, to be a little bold, an insult to all our learners who achieved far higher than that.”