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Kenya’s remote learning offerings are an example for the region — but how did they come about and what model does Kenya provide?
The recent disruptions in education caused by Covid led many countries to quickly implement remote learning interventions. Kenya’s Educational Media Directorate — part of the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development...
Interventions that are likely to be impactful are those that are anchored on sound policies and strategies, are well-planned and resourced, are efficiently executed, and are effectively monitored and evaluated. This presupposes a ‘normal environment’ yet these conditions are hardly met fully during ‘normal times’ when it comes to Africa. And so, we...
Les interventions susceptibles d'avoir des répercussions sont celles qui sont ancrées dans des politiques et des stratégies solides, qui sont bien planifiées et dotées de ressources, qui sont exécutées de manière efficace, et qui font l'objet d'un suivi et d'une évaluation effectifs. Cela suppose un « environnement normal », mais ces conditions ne sont...
Date: 12 Mar 2022
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Event Type: Webinar
12 March, 12-13:30 GMT
On Saturday 12 March, members of the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), Rachel Glenner, Rukmini Banerji, along with Rasheda K Choudhury and Dr Dipu Moni MP, will share key evidence on what works in education and how to...
OPINION Towards an EU strategy to promote education for children in the world: mitigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemicCommittee on DevelopmentGyörgy Hölvényi Source : © European Union, 2022 - EP
Just weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, girls’ education and health advocates warned of a “shadow pandemic” as girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights were jeopardized due to school closures and other lockdown measures. Two years later, evidence is emerging from across the globe that these calls were all too prescient.
Countries in sub-Saharan...
Volume 43, Issue 1, January 2022, Page 1-5.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, as 1.6 billion schoolchildren were affected by school closures, countries around the world introduced remote learning as a crisis-response. This led to an unprecedented change in the provision of education. Most countries found themselves setting up remote learning at break-neck speed and often for the first time...
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The South African education system is big (13 million learners), unequal and socially graded. Although improving, the achievement outcomes are still low, fragile and susceptible to shocks. The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt the education system a major blow, especially for poor and vulnerable learners. In March 2020 South Africa, like most of the world,...
Kusemererwa Jonathan Henry, Joel Joseph (left and middle) and a friend pose for a photo on their way home from school. During the lockdown, they missed spending time in school together and would walk to visit each other.
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New World Bank report addresses educational underachievement among boys and men.High-income countries know this all too well: no matter the grade or subject, boys have been underperforming in school compared to girls, and men have become less represented in higher education. It’s a phenomenon that has been acknowledged in the literature of many...
With the re-opening of schools, there is a need for pedagogic support for students belonging to the marginalized sections to help them acquire linguistic, numerical, and cognitive competencies. In the aftermath of the pandemic, the contradiction between instrumentalism and morality as educational aims has reached the state of a full-blown crisis. This...
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and scaled up the use of technology for education across Indonesia. Due to the closure of schools, in Indonesia and globally, distance or remote learning has been one of the main options for teaching and learning activities over the last year. Remote learning is defined as a learning process that happens in a non-traditional...
Getting children back to school after COVID-19 closures in Zambia In Zambia, a GPE-supported program is helping children from some of the most marginalized provinces in the country to go back to school after COVID-19-related closures. Twelve-year-old Josphat Chiluba, a grade 3 pupil at Kamangu Community School, is a beneficiary. ...
Pre-primary education played 'protective' role against COVID learning losses in sub-Saharan Africa EurekAlert
Just published, a comparative study of how we can use lessons from large scale education reform to build back better for a post-pandemic renaissance @SN_OAbooks @SpringerEdu Downloadable here:
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Pupils: 2500
Schools: 145This project and its evaluation were affected by the 2020 and 2021 partial school closures caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, some of the impact measurement collection has not been possible and the evaluation will not be completed as originally intended. The evaluation protocol is being updated and will be published...
New research indicates that the gap in attainment between disadvantaged pupils and their classmates increased since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.Press Release •2 minutes •11 February, 2022A new report from the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) finds that the attainment gap between disadvantaged primary school pupils and their classmates...
The most alarming finding is that adolescents are dropping out at much higher levels than initially suggested. It was also discovered that adolescent boys are dropping out at much higher rates than adolescent girls. Eight percent of adolescent girls and 21 percent of adolescent boys are no longer in school. Triangulating these figures with national...
Date: 16 Feb 2022
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Event Type: Roundtable
16 February 5-6pm GMT
The Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, the Global Campaign for Education US, Save the Children and Light For the World are organizing a side-event on inclusive education during the Global Disability Summit. We hope you can join...
Recommendations of the Global Education Evidence Advisory PanelThe short- and long-term impact of the Covid-19 crisis on children’s education, wellbeing, and future productivity is profound. Almost two years after schools began closing in most countries across the world, governments need to take urgent steps to limit the damage.Estimates suggest the...
After two years away, Ugandan children are finally making their way back to school. Some of them, anyway . . .
The post The world’s longest school shutdown is over, but nothing is back to normal appeared first on The Mail & Guardian.
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Unique NGO consortium working with government of Sierra Leone to co-implement a COVID-19 education response program The GPE NGO Consortium is a collective of highly experienced national and international NGOs with significant technical expertise, a deep understanding of the education system in Sierra Leone and the operational capacity to deliver...
This policy brief presents available evidence on the policy and practice responses in teacher training and support during the periods of school closures and re-openings in 40 GPE partner countries in Africa.
It is one of several outputs of the Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX) Observatory on COVID-19 and is based on a synthesis report examining...
Their experiences are captured in a Government-commissioned report assessing UK-funded programmes for marginalised girls in some of the poorest parts of the world. It shows that when COVID-19 forced schools to close, the roles of educators working for these projects expanded dramatically.
Around 85% of those interviewed by researchers said they had...
But don’t celebrate too quickly. There was an increase in the share of kids, especially poor kids, who can’t even recognize letters or numbers.
A couple weeks ago, Uganda finally ended the longest national school closure on record, reopening its public schools after nearly two full years. The New York Times ran a good piece with first-hand reporting...
Governments across the globe will spend about $5 trillion on K-12 education this year. But unless they get all children and young people back to school, keep them in class, and recover the central elements of learning, this generation could lose twice or three times that amount in earning losses. The first impact was the millions of lives lost due...
Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, Pages 409-427: Secondary Education and COVID-19
Encyclopedia doi: 10.3390/encyclopedia2010025
Authors:
Michailina Siakalli
Marilena Mousoulidou
Andri Christodoulou
Angela Savvidou
Kyriaki Kouppa
Secondary education is the second stage of formal education and traditionally begins after primary school,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the education world upside down. We are living through a massive disruption in the lives of millions of students, teachers, principals, and parents. Draconian school closures started in March 2020, some lasting 4 or 5 months, others – too many – almost two years. Immense negative impacts on learners The school as a...
Safe learning in Malawi during COVID-19 Read how Malawi is implementing COVID-19 preventative measures in schools with the support from GPE. Learning during COVID-19. Wearing a mask was made compulsory for learners and teachers in Malawi’s schools. COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on schools across the globe, from school...
F&D Special Feature: Africa at a Crossroads: Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future. A comprehensive effort could unlock the region’s potential and spur recovery Since decolonization, Sub-Saharan Africa has made great progress on human capital–the knowledge, skills, and health that people accumulate...
By Indermit Gill, Jaime SaavedraGovernments across the globe will spend about $5 trillion on K-12 education this year. But unless they get all children and young people back to school, keep them in class, and recover the central elements of learning, this generation could lose two or three times that amount in wages.
The first impact was the millions...
In the context of education disruption due to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict, UNESCO and Huawei supported the organization of three pilot workshops in Ethiopia, each held over two days. From 13 November to 5 December 2021, the pilot workshops introduced teachers to various types of distance learning methodologies, including online,...
In this synthesis, we first provide an overview of the experience of the pre-COVID-19 assessment frameworks in 40 GPE partner countries in Africa. We then document how education systems have approached learning assessment in the context of the COVID-19, with particular attention to how the needs of vulnerable groups of students are being addressed....
Country: Nigeria
Source: UN Children's Fund
Abuja, 24 January 2022 - As the world celebrates the International Day of Education today, UNICEF welcomed the government’s pledge to increase Nigeria’s annual domestic education expenditure by 50 per cent over the next two years, and by 100...
Country: World
Source: Institute of Development Studies
It is important to assume that the learning crisis caused by COVID-19 is not over. As highlighted by 2021 school closures in response to the Delta variant, lessons learned from school closures in 2020 are required and applicable....
We are heading toward the 100th week of education disruption around the world. On average, each country has experienced 20 weeks of full school closures, plus another 20 weeks of partial closures. School children have lost an estimated 2 trillion hours – and counting – of in-person instruction since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent...
Photo: Shutterstock Despite generally been seen as overly resistant to transformation, more change and innovation have probably occurred in education systems during the COVID-19 pandemic than in the previous decade. The emergency remote learning responses adopted during the pandemic have highlighted many highs and lows, and a host of questions: what...
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Global Lessons from Initiatives to Support Learners and Teachers
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Based on lessons from the past two years, the majority of countries affected by the highly contagious variant of Omicron are succeeding in keeping schools open with reinforced health and safety protocols. But the continued disruption to education requires bolder measures to recover learning losses.
According to new data released by UNESCO...
The Commonwealth Secretariat has just released the report The Impact of COVID-19 on Education Systems in the Commonwealth.
The research studies that feature in the chapters were part of JET's COVID-19 research response, initiated in March 2020, which aimed to engage and mentor young researchers during lockdown and contribute to thinking about the...
EDUCATION REFORM: Govt to launch strategies to address pandemic-related learning loss and redevelop curricula EyeWitness News
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to education. Countries have been forced to find ways to adapt to these educational disruptions (such as school closures), by providing remote learning for students, adapting curriculum and assessments, and supporting the health and wellbeing of students, teachers and families. The COVID-19 MILO (Monitoring...
January 23, 2022From coping with childcare and digital learning to ensuring safety in an uncertain environment, students, teachers, and parents have had it rough over the past couple of years. Now, Omicron and other virus variants are further disrupting the already hard-hit education system. Where do education leaders go from here? Ahead of #EducationDay,...
NEW YORK, 24 January 2022 – More than 635 million students remain affected by full or partial school closures. On the International Day of Education and as the COVID-19 pandemic nears its two-year mark, UNICEF shares the latest available data on the impact of the pandemic on children’s learning. “In March, we will mark two years...
Date: 26 Jan 2022
Time: 1:00pm
Event Type: Panel
Join us for the launch of a new Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) report recommending the most effective ways to keep children learning during and post-pandemic.
A new report, “Prioritizing Learning During Covid-19”, provides recommendations from the GEEAP,...
