Students lag amid ‘lost hours’: report

Each year, more than a quarter of possible teaching hours are lost at the primary school level – the equivalent of 50.5 school days – due to teacher absences, missing class hours and the high number of school holidays, a report released yesterday found.

These results were gathered during the 2012-13 school year by NGO Education Partnership and more than 130 other organisations, focusing on grades 4 through 6, at 91 primary schools in urban and rural areas.

According to Ang Sopha, research coordinator of NEP, the study sought to find key deterrents to classroom learning.

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