Around 63 million primary and secondary teachers around the world are affected by school closures in 165 countries due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are on the frontlines of the… Read more Teacher Task Force calls to support 63 million teachers touched by the COVID-19 crisis
At a time of when 87% of the world’s student population is affected by COVID-19 school closures, UNESCO is launching a global education coalition to support countries in scaling up their best… Read more UNESCO rallies international organizations, civil society and private sector partners in a broad Coalition to ensure #LearningNeverStops
As school closures impact nearly 80% of the world’s student population, UNESCO on 23 March convened an online meeting of an ad hoc group of education ministers who shared information… Read more 1.37 billion students now home as COVID-19 school closures expand, ministers scale up multimedia approaches to ensure learning continuity
Over a billion students and youth across the planet are affected by school and university closures due to the COVID-19 outbreak. UNESCO launched the Global Education Coalition, which will seek… Read more Global Education Coalition for COVID-19 Response
On the 17th of March 2020, UNESCO IITE participated in the round table “Higher Education in Emergency” hosted by the Institute of Education of the National Research University Higher School… Read more UNESCO IITE joined the round table “Higher Education in Emergency”
As of March 18, over 850 million children and youth – roughly half of the world’s student population – had to stay away from schools and universities due to the… Read more COVID-19: with half of world’s student population out of school, UNESCO launches coalition to accelerate remote learning solutions
On March 20th, the Google for Education team in partnership with UNESCO IITE have launched a new Teach From Home platform to help teachers in different parts of the world… Read more Google in partnership with UNESCO IITE have launched a new Teach From Home platform
According to UNESCO monitoring, over 100 countries have implemented nationwide closures, impacting over half of world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized school closures. UNESCO is working with… Read more COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Response
As COVID-19 continues spreading in many countries of the world, how to keep learning in disruption has become a major challenge to the global education community. As stated by UNESCO… Read more Handbook on Facilitating Flexible Learning During Educational Disruption
By the end of March 2020 more than 160 countries have partially or completely closed schools and universities, which affected over 1.5 billion learners and 60.2 million teachers worldwide.* In… Read more UNESCO IITE launches an online platform Combat COVID-19: Keep learning. Together we are on the move!