Prof. Funke Omidire attended the fifth RESEP Quantitative Education Research Conference at the STIAS Conference Centre in Stellenbosch on 12 and 13 September, 2022. There were a number of interesting and informative presentations. The main speaker, Prof. Sean Reardon of Stanford University, spoke about race, class, and educational opportunity in the United States. With his presentation, Prof. Reardon emphasises that economic segregation is the strongest predictor of how unequally schools provide opportunity. Prof. Vijay Reddy spoke on the Impact of COVID-19 on a fragile Education system while the team from DBE, and RESEP explored the learning losses and curriculum responses

A number of presentations focused on language learning and policy. Dr Nwabisa Makaluza presented findings of a study on deriving a quantitatively determined difficulty index for isiXhosa reading texts. Other presentations explored postponing the transition to English as Language of Learning and Teaching (LOLT) beyond Grade 4.