This blog was written by Emma Smith, Senior Careers Reporter of Devex. It was originally published on the Devex website on 27 May 2020. Around 90% of the world’s schoolchildren were confined to their homes in April, and if history is any indication, many girls won’t return to school once lockdowns are lifted. As a […]
This blog was written by Rabea Malik, Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Research Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) in Pakistan. This blog is part of a series from the REAL Centre reflecting on the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on […]
This article was written by Anshu Kumari, Community Adolescent Officer at KHPT and R. Maithreyi, Senior Adolescent Research Consultant at KHPT. It was originally published on the Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective (CCYSC) on 16 May 2020. A Crisis of Confidence and a Crisis of Faith The school – what is more than a […]
This blog was written by Robert Jenkins, Chief, Education and Associate Director, Programme Division, UNICEF, and Rebecca Winthrop, Co-Director, Centre for Universal Education and Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution. The blog was originally published on the Brookings Education Plus Development website on 15 May 2020. The past two decades have been marked […]
This blog was written by Annie Homer, UK Department for International Development (DFID) and originally published on the Global Partnership for Education website on 21 April 2020. Containing transmission through pandemics brings challenges for keeping children safe and learning but the experience from Ebola shows these are not insurmountable. While COVID-19 is different from Ebola, […]
