WORLD AT ‘DEFINING MOMENT’ FOR CHILDREN
Following is the text of UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ video message for the launch of the policy brief on education and COVID-19: Education is the key to personal development and the…
BOOST FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION IN UGANDA
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved $150 million to enable greater access to higher quality secondary education among Ugandan children in safer and better equipped learning environments…
AFRICAN EDUCATION EXPERTS PUSH FOR MORE VIRTUAL LEARNING
Africa must develop new education models that feature well-resourced virtual teaching and learning schemes to insulate it against disruptions due to disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic, experts at a…
COUNTERING LEARNING POVERTY FROM COVID-19
School closures due to COVID-19 have left most students on the planet out of school – 1.6 billion students at the peak in April 2020. This global shock to all…
BUILD BACK BETTER
An article by Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO In May, as the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the headlines and every aspect of our lives, a study found that in 50 years one…
BOOST FOR EARLY LEARNING AND LITERACY IN TUVALU
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors have approved a US$14 million International Development Association grant to support early education and literacy through a new project in Tuvalu. The project will…
UNEQUAL ACCESS TO REMOTE SCHOOLING
As nearly 1.2 billion schoolchildren remain affected by school closures and as they grapple with the realities of remote learning in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, UNICEF warns inherent inequalities in…