More than a third of pupils who start grade R lack the necessary language, numeracy, and motor skills for their age, which means they start their schooling at an academic disadvantage. In a new study ...

When your Grade R child comes home from school, they can’t stop talking about the friends they made, games they played and the new things they learned that day. Some experts say this preschool class ...

A new study shows that grade R classes have almost zero effect on the future performance of pupils in South Africa’s poorest schools. “The impact of grade R in South Africa is small and there is ...

Principal of Kapakapanui School Craig Vidulich says they have seen great results from moving back to a more traditional way of teaching maths. Photo / Mark Mitchell New Zealand’s once world-leading ...

The percentage mastery figures for the better-performing rural schools across 12 parishes in the 2017 Grade Four Literacy and Numeracy tests are highlighted below. Schools with very low school and ...

THERE has been a decline in the national averages by six percentage points for literacy and four percentage points for numeracy at the grade 4 level, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information ...

Professor Michael Le Cordeur is Emeritus Professor in Education at Stellenbosch University, chairperson of the Foundation for Empowerment through Afrikaans and an education consultant. The R10bn that ...

A cancelled government education scheme helped thousands of pupils improve their English and maths results. The literacy and numeracy signature programme ran from 2013 to 2015 but was not renewed due ...