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President Cyril Ramaphosa. (GCIS)
ALBERT NSENGIYUMVA

Ramaphosa: ‘Equip our learners with technical skills to address youth unemployment, grow the economy’

The president said the new three-stream model that offers more choices and better guidance would help address the school drop-out rate

  • Mandisa Ndlovu
2 min read
Senegalese pre-school students receive French and Quran education at a school in Dakar, Senegal. (Photo by Xaume Olleros/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
AFRICA

Senegal has lessons for sub-Saharan countries on how to build literacy and numeracy in primary schools

Learners should be taught in their home language and they need textbooks. Teachers must be part of curriculum reforms and know how to use teaching guides.

  • Manos Antoninis
5 min read