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As districts across the country face unprecedented teacher shortages, the need for highly-trained literacy experts continues to expand.

Sen. Bill Cassidy has released a report sounding the alarm on dismal child literacy scores and the "ineffective" tools used to teach students to read.

Cornerstone Institute, in collaboration with Oxford University Press Southern Africa (OUPSA), proudly announces the 2nd Critical Dialogue event...

The Department of Basic Education has not done enough to ensure all children can read for meaning at the age of 10 by 2030. Urgent interventions are needed, a panel of education experts has found.

The beautiful thing about learning is that no-one can take it away...

This comes as the department of basic education says that although there are challenges, public education is ‘thriving’

With South Africa’s education sector having been accused of being broken, parents and pupils need to be prepared and brace for the trends most likely to have an impact on education in the year ahead, writes Paul Esterhuizen.

Hope, I am afraid, will not come from education system reform. We will only find it in total and complete system transformation.

South Africa’s history of apartheid and marginalization has made it rife with poverty. A report published by the World Bank in 2023 concluded that as of 2014, an estimated 55% of South Africans lived at and under the national poverty line.