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The school feeding scheme saga in KwaZulu-Natal is a lesson in how making our democracy work can bolster state accountability.

Grace Matlhape, CEO of SmartStart, and Mary Metcalfe, Executive Director of the Programme to Improve Learning Outcomes – have been named as Top 10 finalists for the Africa Education Medal 2023.

Pirls results from 2016 showed that 78% of Grade 4 children couldn’t read in any language. This increased to 81% in 2021, wiping out a decade of progress.

Following reports that administrative delays in the Eastern Cape’s school nutrition programme caused hundreds of thousands of learners to be deprived of meals last month, the Eastern Cape Department of Education promised to deliver payment to schools by 9 May. Now, human rights groups are inves...

A staggering 81% of Grade 4 pupils in South Africa can't read for meaning, the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has revealed.



Making headlines: International study reveals 8 out 10 Grade 4 pupils in South Africa can't read for meaning, My Vote Counts heads to court to strengthen Political Party Funding Act and, unemployment rate rises to 32.9% as more people enter the job market

A staggering 81% of Grade 4 pupils in South Africa can't read for meaning, the latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) has revealed. It means roughly eight out of 10 children need help locating and retrieving explicitly stated information in simple and easy text.

Agra. One person even got a teacher's job in 2003 without doing B.Sc. When the Basic Education Department sent the teacher's papers to Dr. Bhimrao | BLiTZ

The Pirls 2021 reading results show that South African kids perform the worst of all participating countries.

The country ranks lowest out of 43 participating countries in terms of pupils' reading skills, with an average score of only 288.