Examining the impact of school closures on educational outcomes.
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While the loss of contact learning time can be quantified, it’s more difficult to quantify the effect of school closures on learning outcomes.
A worker cut fabric panels from a material stack at a textile factory in Cape Town. Young South Africans aren’t being given the skills they need.
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The pandemic has heightened existing weaknesses in South Africa’s skills training regime.
Students protesting over financial exclusion on March 2021 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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South Africa’s economic challenges and the high number of students from poor and working class families call for a funding model that doesn’t create an affordability crisis for students and the state.
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The inequalities in South Africa’s education are systematically being exposed at a scale not experienced before.