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Namibia: Few Grade 12s Qualify for University Entry
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New Era (Windhoek)
29 January 2008
Posted to the web 29 January 2008
Frederick Philander
Windhoek
Considered to be a historic event, the first Grade 12 Namibia Senior Certificate Ordinary Level examination results were yesterday released by the Ministry of Education.
Of the 31243 candidates who sat for the examinations, 16791 (53.7 percent) were full-time candidates and 14452 (46.3 percent) were part-time entries. Only 3256 full-time candidates gained university admission. In total 38 NSSC Ordinary Level subjects consisting of 106 examination components were examined in public and private schools with part-time candidates entered for 24 of these subjects.
Reinhild Nauhaus of Delta Senior Secondary School in the capital achieved the best overall results in higher level subjects countrywide. The total number of subject entries were 121100 and consisted of 93434 (77.2 percent) full-time and 27666 (22.8 percent) part-time entries of which the bulk have been registered with the Namibian College of Open Learning for tuition.
"This is indeed a historic event announcing the first results of this new Namibian qualification since never before has a Namibian examination and qualification been available at the end of Grade 12," said Deputy Minister of Education, Dr Becky Ndjoze-Ojo, in a press statement. She also officiated yesterday at the prize-giving ceremony for the best candidates in the 2007 Namibia Senior Certificate Ordinary Level examinations at Government Park.
"Full-time candidates performed poorly in 2007. It should be noted that a significant increase of 13358 or 14.5 percent as well as the change from IGCSE to the new Namibian examinations are factors that had a negative effect on the examination results," she said. According to her, the part-time candidates, with an increase in the percentage of graded entries, performed much better compared to 2006.
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"A positive aspect in the result of the national entry is the drop of 0.6 percent in the percentage of ungraded entries. This resulted in an increase in the percentage of graded entries to 91.1 percent, which is the highest percentage so far for the national entry," Ndjoze-Ojo said.
Agriculture, Computer Studies and Woodwork were some of the subjects the Grade12 candidates did well in, whereas they performed poorly in subjects such as Accounting, Art and Design, and English. "For the 2007 NSSC Ordinary Level examinations, seven candidates at three centres are suspected of being involved in irregularities."
The results of these candidates are being investigated and a final decision will be taken, the Deputy Minister concluded.
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