5.5 Academic history of students

The majority of student teachers attended either an ex-DET school or a school in one of the previous homelands or independent states (49% and 38% respectively). Only 11 of the students attended ex-House of Representative schools and two each ex-House of Assembly or House of Delegate schools. Only one student had attended a private school (see Table 8)

Table 8: Type of school attended by students

The majority of the students matriculated between 1992 and 1996 as indicated in Table 9. However the range of matriculation years is from 1973 to 1996. From Table 10, it is evident that the majority of the students had English and History as subjects in matric and in those cases where science and mathematics were taken, these were taken at a standard grade level in the majority of cases (64% and 91% respectively). The average symbols obtained were quite poor, with Ds and Es predominating. Only one student obtained an A in maths and there were no As in English, Science or History

Table 9: Matriculation year of student teachers

Table 10: Matric grades of student teachers for English, Maths, Science and History

Table 11: Matric subjects and symbols of student teachers