Education dept gazettes new directions for 2020 matric exams

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The changes are only for the 2020 school year and school will revert to the original curriculum in 2021.

The 2020 National Senior Certificate exams will go ahead as planned in November and December this year, according to new directions gazetted on Tuesday which addresses the functioning of schools during Covid-19.

However, the Senior Certificate and the National Senior Certificate exams, meant to be written by more than 350,000 part-time candidates in May and June this year, were postponed to November and December.Curriculum re-organisation According to the gazette, the adjusted curriculum contains revised teaching plans and support guidelines.

Schools must operate at 50% capacity or less at any given time, according to the regulations and may consider timetable rotations to accommodate this.

 

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