47.1% of South African adults do not have matric

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konfab said:
The quality of the education offered by the ANC is basically the same as the Nats. Only thing that has changed is the curriculum is more politically correct and the teachers are paid more.

If you look at maths education:

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If you look at what the education system produces nowadays, it largely is the same as it was then, just with better optics. A substantive amount of mostly black kids drop out before they even reach matric, the ones that who do matric, mostly do maths literacy, and the average mark for that is 40%.

It is disgraceful and sad.

At this point, everyone would be better off if you just put that cash into the bank accounts of poor parents and told them to sort out the education of their children themselves.
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I am actually the one who is always going up against those who claim their education in the good old days was better "because they needed 50% to pass" , I have in countless occasions posted facts that disprove the lies.

So I am not really the one you shoukd be telling this to.
 
TheChamp said:
I am actually the one who is always going up against those who claim their education in the good old days was better "because they needed 50% to pass" , I have in countless occasions posted facts that disprove the lies.

So I am not really the one you shoukd be telling this to.
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Mephisto_Helix said:
The numbers writing matric have risen but the pass rate has fallen during freedom, good ol' anc 😂

https://irr.org.za/reports/research...-review-of-matric-results-10th-september-2010
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Pass rate alone is generally a useless metric for success.

You could get the pass rate to 100% tomorrow by just handing a matric certificate to every single Saffer.

What matters is pass rate relative to quality of education being delivered.

So a high pass rate alone isn't an indication of success. A low pass rate though is awful no matter what. 47.1% is objectively awful. The ANC, and all who support them, should be utterly ashamed by this.
 
porchrat said:
Pass rate alone is generally a useless metric for success.

You could get the pass rate to 100% tomorrow by just handing a matric certificate to every single Saffer.

What matters is pass rate relative to quality of education being delivered.

So a high pass rate alone isn't an indication of success. A low pass rate though is awful no matter what. 47.1% is objectively awful. The ANC, and all who support them, should be utterly ashamed by this.
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The ANC's version of dieting is they will give you food that is half the calories so you can have twice as much.
 
ShaunSA said:
Don't double down. It makes you look even more foolish
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I would not call that doubling down.

I saw the mistake and thanked the person for showing it to me.
If you call that foolish, so be it.

All men are fools, at some point.
All men make mistakes at some points.
It's part of the adventure of living.
I care to learn and improve.


Now, back to the actual subject.

Do you agree with the school system that there should be three formulas learned?
The actual correct answer gets ignored when a wrong formula is used?

Is that smart or foolish to you?
 
Scary_Turtle said:
In my industry this is the case especially when a potential employee is early 20s. A 24 year old ready to grind vs a guy who has been buggering around since 18 it's a no brainer. The gap does close later on.

There are plenty people more successful than me they could go start a business and hit the mother load. I am talking in general in my industry with new employees getting into cyber security. I probably didn't make that clear.
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Don't worry Mythos is coming for your job.

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semaphore said:
Don't worry Mythos is coming for your job.

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Every pentesting firm in the world is creating an AI in some way or another. Some just have more money to throw at it than others, so far from the LLMs I have seen they are far from replacing a pentester and we have trialed the top 20 at least.

They have found a cool few things but miss gaps we intentionally leave in. Some companies are paying 4000 dollars a day for these tests and calling it good which is scary. They are great at code reviews stuff like XSS and SQL injection already few and far between will be gone in no time.

They will get better though especially because I can only imagine what the state-sponsored hacking groups are up to.

At the moment AI is breaking code in secure systems because people are implementing it badly and leaving things more vulnerable than before or hacking badly.
 
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I owned a locksmiths business from 1994

Every year in January we placed an ad in The Argus for learner-locksmiths to be come and be tested with the idea to employ a few more young people

There were often more than 200 replies. Each one was send by post an application form. About 15 forms got returned "address unknown". Of the 200, we received ± 70 replies. Those with atrocious spelling or blank answers (some did not know their age or school) were discarded. That left about 15.

These 15 who all professed to be expert locksmiths were invited to visit the shop. We gave them a Bird night latch cylinder and asked them to pick it open in 30 mins. In a good year, we might get one or two

They were offered a job. Some lasted a week and gave up or just did not turn up. One lasted 3 months and then declared he was going back to the Transkei

Not one had a driving licence, although they were all expert drivers they said. On putting them in a car, they had no idea what to do. Many would just rev the engine in neutral. Some pulled away with the handbrake on or never looking in the mirror
 
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