(1) Whether she had requested her department to study the latest report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development which ranked 70 countries on educational outcomes; if not, why not; if so, (2) whether her department can provide reasons as to why, against the backdrop of that report, (a) South African children continuously remain at the bottom of the list when it comes to maths and science in spite of every measure her department has implemented, (b) a staggering 90% of our pupils are not being taught what the report characterises as basic Friday, 22 May 2015 619 INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY NO 15 - 2015 skills and (c) only 70% of learnersenroll for secondary school education, placing us again at the bottom of the list; if not, why not; if so, what (i) are the relevant details and (ii) is the explanation for such findings?