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School attendance is at the lowest level it has been in 20 years Illustration: Lisa Nelson Up to 750,000 learners have dropped out of school during the Covid-19 pandemic according to the latest NIDS-CRAM findings, about three times the pre-pandemic level. Almost a full year of learning has also been lost since the pandemic started. An urgent catch-up plan and national response to school dropout is needed. As many as half a million more children than expected have dropped out of school during the pandemic. School dropout may have tripled from 230,000 learners pre-pandemic to approximately 750,000 in May 2021. This is according to findings released on Thursday in the fifth set of results from the National Income Dynamics Study - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM). The NIDS-CRAM survey covers the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown on South African households.

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