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Tertiary institutions included in this showcase of educational establishments

Why should any education official, school principal or teacher care about the outcomes of a nationally standardised reading assessment?

We have a choice to focus on nonsense or on the debilitating crisis that faces our nation’s schools.

Members of the inaugural gathering of the 2030 Reading Panel weigh in on how the country’s low child literacy rates can be addressed.

If tertiary institutions do not double their new teacher output by 2025, the South African public school system will likely face a dire shortage of teachers. 



A study showed that newly graduated teachers are performing incredibly weakly on tests their students should be able to master.

As schoolchildren are finally preparing to go back to school full-time, a new report shows it will be a steep road for them to attain their educational outcomes.



John Maytham speaks to education economist Professor Nic Spaull who forms part of recently-formed The 2030 Reading Panel

The inaugural 2030 Reading Panel report has found concerning levels of education at schools in South Africa.

On the current trajectory of improvement for children’s literacy rates in South Africa, it will be 2098 before all Grade 4s in the country can learn to read for meaning.