WHAT RICH NEW EDUCATION DATA CAN TELL US - New insights into

This report underscores the importance of the vital data-systems that are starting to provide major new insights into the functioning and growth of the education system and the complex effects of the pandemic on it, ranging from learner progression to teacher dynamics. [...] 7 CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 learNer flows betweeN grades, school-based assessmeNts aNd the Nsc eXamiNatioN Greater leniency 2.1 Greater leniency in response to the pandemic and its effects is observed in During the pandemic and in reaction to the closure of schools, the some of the education authorities considered that it would be fair to learners SBA results for who had missed so much scho. [...] A striking similarity that comes to the fore here is that the distribution of marks in English First Additional Language in grade 10 is quite similar to the distribution of the marks the same learners achieved when they wrote matric. [...] In Figure 3.7, the yellow shows the high-density areas from where most of the learners came that moved to schools in Gauteng in 2021, while the same colours indicate the numbers of learners migrating to different areas in Gauteng. [...] The breakdown of the 108 is shown in Table 4.6 below, by grade and the language status of the subject.