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18 May 2020Help us shape the “Youth As Researchers – COVID19” Project, a new global youth-led research initiative that seeks to answer questions like these. COVID-19 has created an unprecedented health crisis, disrupting the lives of thousands of individuals, as well as their societies. As this pandemic -
15 May 2020The outbreak of COVID-19 is having a huge impact on education, higher education and recognition. The temporary closure of educational institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to changes in qualifications, including examinations at the end of upper secondary school, which is some cases -
15 May 2020Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, teacher educators have been under a lot of stress, wondering if Education Colleges will reopen as scheduled for next semester and anxious about delivering quality teaching to their students as the new competency-based teacher education curriculum continues to be rolled -
14 May 2020The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented human and health crisis and triggered a severe economic downturn. Global GDP growth down is predicted to go down by at least 3% in 2020, plunging the world into a global recession of unparalleled scale (IMF). The lockdown measures taken to contain
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