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Data from the National Benchmark Test can be used by universities to support students who lag behind in academic literacy.

This research suggests that there is one simple way to equip your children for a life of literacy from their infancy: show them picture books.

Much of the recent commentary on Sino-African relations has a negative tone. But genuine cultural exchange holds the promise of mutual enrichment.

The benefits of learning through play are well documented. In rural communities in South Africa, “playing school” produces passionate lifelong readers.

Time out of school erased a year’s worth of schooling for public school learners in South Africa.

There is little value in translating academic texts into “high” or “deep” versions of African languages. Most students read and speak their mother tongues in a far more colloquial fashion.

South Africa’s disaster management plan targets the most vulnerable. But it needs to respond in a more deliberate way when it comes to people with disabilities.

Africa’s current situation has a parallel in European history - the Reformation and the changes it wrought in terms of language exceptionalism.

Humour is a way for Congolese internet users to prod at cultural traits and political developments – despite censorship being rife.

Cuba used three major methods to revolutionise its education system from the 1960s. The hard work has paid off and the system holds many lessons for other countries.