Learners who completed Grade 10 via part-time studies in 2019, must continue with their part-time studies until they have completed Grade 12, the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture have said. The Ministry, in a statement issued by Executive Director Sanet Steenkamp, said such part-time studies must be done over the next two years before the old school curriculum is completely phased out. “Learners who were successful in improving their Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) results in 2019 will not be able to return to full-time schooling for Grade 11 as they are still part of the old curriculum, which has been phased out and hence is not offered at school as a full-time course,” she said. Steenkamp said that any learner who completed Grade 10 part-time will not be allowed back to school as full-time enrolled learners for Grade 11 this year. “More so, such learners will not be allowed to change into the revised senior secondary curriculum offered full-time at schools,” she said. The revised curriculum was introduced in Grade 8 in 2017 and in Grade 9 in 2018, thus 2018 was the last year the old curriculum was taught at school for full-time candidates. The first year the revised curriculum was taught in school was 2019, meaning candidates who sat for Grade 10 part-time examinations in 2019 on the old curriculum are still part of the cohort of learners who follow the old curriculum leading to the JSC. The executive director emphasised that there are more advantages in completing secondary education with the curriculum a learner started with. “This way continuity of the spiral of building content knowledge in the respective subjects is not interrupted, leading to successful completion,” said Steenkamp.