Youth African education and employment NGO youthWORK says tools to improve literacy rates are available and are vital to alleviating the burden on the country’s education system.
, which showed that only 19% of grade four pupils could read for meaning in any language that year. This represents a distressing 3% decline in literacy rates since the previous assessment in 2016.
“What is particularly frustrating is that we possess the necessary tools, technology, and resources to reverse this trajectory. This is an opportunity for collaboration and collective action,” she said.will assist teachers, parents, and learners in measuring and strengthening literacy and numeracy skills, Kempken said.
“Due to the unprecedented disruptions caused by the pandemic, as much as 60% of teaching time was lost in certain grades in 2020, and up to 50% was lost in 2021,” Motshekga said.
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