Published on in “Business”, language — English. 44 pages.
Last year, I wrote on the importance of training for the workplace. However, while training falls into the sphere of further and/or higher education, the foundation for success — economic and otherwise — is built long before this: in our primary schools. In December, the results of the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) were released, revealing that South Africa’s literacy and education crisis is far worse than we may have thought. More