Basic literacy among children in South Africa has declined ... also an education NGO, to implement a grade R program in all schools. The three-year R107-million budget is 80% funded by a ...

It is an educational task which will take time. Grade R has long been neglected in South Africa and we are picking the bitter fruit of that neglect. That it has taken us so long to get to this ...

The department said that Grade R learners will not automatically be accepted ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news and information ...

The recently published 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (Pirls) found that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa can ... almost 57,000 Grade R and Grade 1 learners ...

South Africa’s Department of Basic Education (DBE) will introduce coding and robotics into the school curriculum for Grades R to 3 and Grade 7 in 2023, following a pilot project that began in ...

Basic Education Minister Siviwe Gwarube has revealed that South Africa needs approximately 250 000 additional Grade R places to accommodate all eligible children in Grade R school programmes.

the executive director of the National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (Naptosa), said "many crazy things" were happening around the Bill. Manuel said: This is a policy running ...

The results of the 2021 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study show that 81% of Grade 4 learners in South Africa are unable to read for meaning in any language. Education experts have ...