September 17, 2021

UNESCO: 117 Million Students Worldwide Still Out of Schools

S Since the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic, millions of students worldwide have lost access to schools. Complete school closure has affected 7.5 percent of the total student population. Currently, schools have partially reopened in some places, but in most of the places, they remain closed. For over 20 months now, millions of students are getting education via mediums like online classes, printed modules, and television & radio classes.

“Mission: Recovering Education 2021”, a joint initiative of UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank – a mission to support governments in bringing students back to school

“Mission: Recovering Education 2021”, a joint initiative of UNESCO, UNICEF and World Bank, is a mission to support governments in bringing students back to school, run programmes to help them catch up on lost learning and prepare teachers to address learning losses and incorporate digital technology in their teaching. To remedy the global setback, teachers and educators worldwide need to learn new and improved techniques of teaching along with a lot of support and preparation. Good connectivity and bridging the digital divide is one of the biggest concerns educators these days have.

Some of the most glaring effects of the pandemic are the learning losses and the rate at which students are dropping out. For the majority of dropout cases, it is the inaccessibility of a classroom set up. Students who are vulnerable are the most affected by it. To ensure the continuation of learning, UNESCO and Education International urged countries to include teachers to the priority group of people to get vaccinated along with the frontline workers. As a part of the reopening process, schools in most countries are now following strict sanitary protocols that involve wearing masks, using sanitisers, improved ventilation in classrooms and proper social distancing.

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