Education trends for a (hopefully) post-pandemic world

How can primary and high schools change to adapt to the working environment of the near future?

16 January 2022 - 00:00

The Alphas and Gen Zers are going back to school this week and, for many parents, it's not a pretty sight. After almost two years of disrupted learning and online schooling, a number of kids are finding the classroom an even less inviting place than they did before 2020 — that is, if they even have a place in the classroom at all. This week it was reported that the education department still has to place 400,000 children for the 2022 South African school year. The department also projected that between 150,000 and 700,000 pupils have dropped out of school in SA since March 2020...

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