‘Year 2022 a disaster for the education sector’

THE 2022 school calendar was affected by a myriad of challenges that included examination paper leaks, and strikes by teachers.

Schools were still struggling to recover from the effects of the COVID-19 virus and lockdown period.

There were also reports that in some remote rural areas, children in the countryside are still learning under trees due to lack of education infrastructure, while thousands of pupils from marginalised communities reportedly dropped out of school due to lack of school fees.

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