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Back to school, back to normality? Dilemmas in high-income countries
There seemed no doubt when schools closed earlier this year that closures were a necessary response to the pandemic. The question is whether that reasoning has sufficiently subsided for the opening of school doors to be again acceptable. If groups … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, emergencies, high-income, out of school
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TVET and skills development in the time of Covid-19
By Paul Comyn, Senior Skills Specialist, ILO With less than 5 months since the first official reporting of a Coronavirus (COVID-19) case, we have almost arrived at a global paralysis of regular education and training provision. This unprecedented situation is … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, Skills, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, out of school, skills training, TVET
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Covid-19 school closures and the summer break
The shift in emphasis in global education debates in recent years towards learning outcomes has been so strong that sometimes it seemed as if we no longer valued education access unless it led to learning. The reaction to school closures … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, Learning, Out-of-school children, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, learning, out of school, school holidays
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Schools closing is a risk to our village’s future
By Francis Silvester, director of a school in rural Kenya I run a private school called Tower of Light in a rural place commonly known as Yala Swamp 17km away from Siaya town in Kenya. It is a registered school … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Disaster preparedness, Gender, Out-of-school children, Rural areas, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, kenya, out of school
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How will Covid-19 affect the internationalization of higher education?
University costs. It didn’t take long after universities closed their doors in the United States, for instance, for students to start advocating to get their money back. Twitter is awash with professors concerned about the impact that shutting universities is … Continue reading
Posted in Health, higher education, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, higher education, out of school, teachers, teaching, universities
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Charlotte, a teacher from Marseille: “We’re being asked to do a completely different job from before.”
The onset of Covid-19 means that teachers like me are suddenly being asked to do completely different jobs. While we were in the classroom engaging with children before, now we’re at home and trying to engage with their parents. I … Continue reading
Posted in Disaster preparedness, emergencies, ICT, Inclusion, Out-of-school children, Teachers, teaching, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, france, ICT, out of school, teachers, teaching, technology
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Coronavirus: France has called for educational continuity
English / Français By Anna Cristina D’Addio, Senior Policy Analyst, GEM Report, member of the Conseil d’Evaluation de l’Ecole, and mother of a teenage (lower) secondary school student in France. France closed all schools, colleges, high schools and universities on … Continue reading
Covid-19: How is Greece coping with school closure?
As with other countries around the world, Greece has faced two main challenges in its response to the coronavirus pandemic: delivering distance education and managing the postponement of examinations. Other challenges have also appeared, which show that no one approach … Continue reading
Posted in digital literacy, emergencies, europe, Finance, ICT, Out-of-school children, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged coronavirus, covid19, digital skills, emergencies, Greece, out of school, technology
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The Peruvian education system: seeking quality and equity during COVID-19 times
By Milagros Lechleiter and Rosa Vidarte, GEM Report Peru was the first country in Latin American to decree the mandatory social distancing of its population on March 16, only 10 days after detecting its first case of COVID-19. The quarantine … Continue reading
“Doing no harm” in and through education
One of the most striking effects of the global pandemic is how millions of people have faced moral dilemmas. Choices over education is a case in point. The education sector often looks to the health sector for ideas, inspired by … Continue reading
