While much has been written and said about the National Senior Certificate (NSC) results released almost a week ago, a few issues are worth commenting on: firstly, the decline in the pass rate should not necessarily be viewed as a negative; secondly, the dropout rate is alarmingly high; and thirdly, the cheating pandemic threatens the integrity of the examinations as a whole.

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Written by Kenny Pasensie, Researcher, Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference Parliamentary Liaison Office (CPLO)