Education department says it will fight Sadtu exams interdict

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The teachers union wants to go to court to stop the re-write of maths and physics matric papers that were leaked

The teachers union wants to go to court to stop the rewrite of maths and physics matric papers that were leakedThe department of basic education says it will defend any attempt in court by theThe union said in a sternly worded statement on Saturday that it was considering legal action against the department and Umalusi — the examinations quality assurer — over a decision to have all pupils who wrote the national senior certificate mathematics and physical science papers rewrite them because the...

The minister announced last Friday that the mathematics paper two will be written on December 15 and physical science paper two will be written on December 17. The department had consulted with unions and the majority of unions made their views known that they were against the decision and consensus was reached. “However, Umalusi did not agree and the decision to rewrite was taken.”“Sadtu believes the decision to have all learners doing mathematics and physical science rewrites is unfair and premature because the investigation [into the leaks] has not been concluded,” said Sadtu.

“Preparing for the 2020 matric examinations was not easy under the Covid-19 conditions and the learners’ mental health and readiness for a rewrite is a big issue.”

 

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Lol...She is clueless!

The dep is lazy and useless, their incompetence is just being shifted onto teachers who have already had a kak year. Why not just fail the cheaters. (Its easy to discover who had access to a digital copy of the exams)

Sadtu sometimes really common sense does leave them

Why is Sadtu fighting this ? What happened to common sense people

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