Eight in 10 South African children struggle to read by age of 10

2023-05-17 08:16

Eight in 10 students have issues with literacy, the lowest performance in a study of 57 countries.

Eight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found.

South Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested the reading ability of 400,000 students globally in 2021...