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Teacher Unions are happy with the 2010 matric results. They mostly praised the learners and teachers for make an extra effort to produce good results. The Education Minister earlier officially announced a 67.8% pass rate. This is up from 60.7% in 2009.

The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa) says the 2010 national senior certificate results are pleasing considering the problems the class of last year faced. Union president Ezrah Ramasehla says it us a relief that this examination had gone well. Ramasehla says, "Focused interventions, particularly towards the end of the year, for learners in the further education and training phase have paid dividends. The results have shown what can be achieved when stakeholders work together to achieve a common goal."

The South African Democratic Teachers Union on their website, congratulated successful matriculants and welcomed the prompt release of the results. It believes that the effort made by teachers and learners to make up for time lost because of the 2010 Socccer World Cup and strike action we successful in preventing a drop in the pass rate.

The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie (SAOU) is satisfied with the results especially in the Western Cape. The province achieved a matric pass rate of 76.8% up just more than 1% from the year before. The union's provincial chairperson Johann Groenewald says the feedback he has received from principals has been positive.

Meanwhile, Federation of Unions of SA (Fedusa) says 67.8% pass rate was pleasing. However, it maintains that the teacher strike and the five-week World Cup vacation must have had a significant impact on the educational progress of matrics.

Fedusa congratulated teachers and pupils for improving on 2009's pass rate. It urged those who failed to make sure they write supplementary exams. -additional reporting by Sapa

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Posted by mfumfu - 10:44 on 10 January 2011

I am not impressed by these results especially the township schools.May be immediate intervention and committment by the unions to pressurise our lazy and delaying government to work hard. The top-down approach by the government isn't working, we need bottom-up approach by unionists, then we will see a great change.These results show only a one sided committment,that of a teacher without any resources to facilitate learning.There are schools without computers.This must be a year for the DoE officials to go and teach in the classroom,apply the theories they are taught from the workshops they attend and let the academics continue with drafting the curriculum and policies.There is nothing like office-based teachers except to create confusion whereas they were supposed to design curriculum for their subjects which some of them can't.It's worst in the Eastern Cape where they(DoE officials) have high subsidies for cars,houses and phones and yet there are still mud-schools.Modidima should intervene as he did in Mdantsane where all teachers were suspended for not delivering,those teachers couldn't cast a spell,that EDO is first in charge but may because of his/her status s/he was given an option (to resign)and shift the blame to those helpless teachers.