Two million learners missing from KEMIS: Gov’t should not confuse data errors with ghost pupils

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Two million learners missing from KEMIS: Gov’t should not confuse data errors with ghost pupils

Learners absent from KEMIS may be present in schools, and data errors should be ruled out before ghost pupils are assumed, a data specialist says

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