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Raising informed media consumers starts at school
Africa Check has created fact-checking resources for teachers that directly target harmful information.
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Fact-checked: 9 claims about South African schools from Ernst Roets
A member of management for the Afrikaner-rights group AfriForum rubbished the state of South African education. We sorted the wheat from the...
Still no evidence for ghost stat about schoolchildren’s access to menstrual products in South Africa
Menstrual products brand StayFree makes two big claims in its ads on social media, but there’s very little research to back them up.
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100 pupils to a teacher? Fact-checking widely read claims about education in Nigeria
An article published in many Nigerian newspapers made several claims about the state of learning in the country. We took a look at them.
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No, 70% of Kenya’s high school students don’t score D+ or lower
Experts caution Kenyan schools traditionally focus too much on high-performing students and not enough on what students are learning.
