{"id":15186,"date":"2022-02-21T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T11:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15186"},"modified":"2022-02-22T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T10:01:13","slug":"statistician-general-to-release-the-education-series-volume-viii-covid-19-and-barriers-to-participation-in-education-in-south-africa-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15186","title":{"rendered":"Statistician-General to release the \u2018Education Series Volume VIII: COVID-19 and barriers to participation in education in South Africa, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MEDIA ADVISORY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21 February 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Statistician-General to release the <\/em><\/strong><strong>\u2018Education Series Volume VIII: COVID-19 and barriers to participation in education in South Africa, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Statistician-General, of South Africa, Mr Risenga Maluleke, will release the results of the <em>\u2018Education Series Volume VIII<\/em> <em>COVID-19 and barriers to participation in education in South Africa, 2020 report <\/em>on Thursday, 24 February 2022 in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>The report focused on the readiness of households to transition from face-to-face learning to digital learning platforms like television-based, to internet-based instructions during COVID-19 lockdown in 2020.\u00a0 These options required access to the necessary technology or tools by households to benefit from these methods of learning. The report also looked at the urban-rural digital divide as well as the inequality by income in accessing the internet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The media briefing will be held as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 24 February 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time:<\/strong> 10H00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Statistics South Africa ISIbalo House, Koch Street, Salvokop, Pretoria<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>RSVP:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Oteng Makgotlwe <strong>Cell:<\/strong>076\u00a06481202 <strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:OtengMa@statssa.gov.za\">OtengMa@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Felicia Sithole <strong>Cell:<\/strong> 076\u00a0430 0693 <strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:Felicias@statssa.gov.za\">Felicias@statssa.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEDIA ADVISORY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 21 February 2022 \u00a0 Statistician-General to release the \u2018Education Series Volume VIII: COVID-19 and barriers to participation in education in South Africa, 2020 \u00a0 The Statistician-General, of South Africa, Mr Risenga Maluleke, will release the results of the \u2018Education Series Volume VIII COVID-19 and barriers to participation in education in South Africa, 2020&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/?p=15186\" class=\"btn btn-mini btn-info pull-right\" style=\"margin:10px 30px;\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-statements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15191,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15186\/revisions\/15191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.statssa.gov.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}