Education minister Motshekga bemoans learning time lost to Covid-19
Attempts to measure learning losses indicate that between 50% and 75% of a typical year’s worth of learning was lost during 2020
29 August 2021 - 16:35
Basic education minister Angie Motshekga said the government was extremely concerned about the learning losses observed within the sector during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a media briefing on Sunday, Motshekga said the state has begun to measure Covid-19-related learning losses by comparing how much children learnt in 2020 “with how much they learned in an average school year before that”...
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