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Teachers at the Grey College in Bloemfontein on 8 January 2021. The school is one of the matric exam marking centres in the Free State. Picture: @HubertMweli/Twitter.

Coronavirus at schools

Gauteng schools’ poor performance laid at the feet of protests and COVID-19

By Kgomotso Modise

Gauteng came in second in the country with a pass rate of 83.2% - that is 1% lower than last year.

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    Crisis-hit Lebanon to reopen classrooms starting in September

    Rights groups have decried an 'education catastrophe', with more than a million children in Lebanon out of school since the country's COVID-19 outbreak began in February last year.

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