Sibongile Maseko, a Grade 1 learner at Hector Peterson Primary School in Dobsonville, Soweto. Picture: Veli Nhlapo
The findings of the fifth wave of the study illustrate the devastating impact the pandemic has had on education which will have a lasting effect into the future. The study also probes household and child hunger, finding that hunger has stabilised at alarmingly high levels and could already have increased due to the ending of social relief grants.
The highest dropout rates were among the poorest households, those in rural areas and in homes where caregivers had a high level of anxiety over the return to school.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
Tragic!
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