Tag: learning loss

Beyond Academic Learning Loss: The Effect of School Closures on Students’ Socio-Emotional Skills

by Tassew Woldehanna and Chanie Ejigu Berhie | Feb 8, 2024 | Learning

An estimated 26 million students missed at least five months of school as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this time, the majority of pupils—notably the most disadvantaged—were not reached by efforts to support students' learning remotely. Read More

Tackling Learning Poverty in Pakistan: A Tale of Transformation

by Fatima Hafeez and Sehrish Farooq | Oct 31, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

Pakistan had 75% learning poverty even before the pandemic and other emergencies, implying a very high percentage of 10-year-old children who had difficulty reading and understanding a simple age-appropriate text. Read More

‘Emancipated Learning’: Indonesia’s education reforms and INOVASI

by Mark Heyward | Oct 25, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Learning

This brief article explores how Innovation for Indonesia’s School Children (INOVASI) used a problem-driven iterative adaptation (PDIA) approach to address learning loss and to support education reform in Indonesia. Read More

Lessons from Ethiopia for the global education community on large-scale education reforms with equity

by Pauline Rose, Ricardo Sabates and Tassew Woldehanna | Jan 29, 2023 | Learning

In recent years, primary school enrolment has expanded rapidly in Ethiopia. However, even before the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of the most disadvantaged still face challenges in completing primary school and learning levels have remained low and even appear to have stalled. The Research for Improving Systems of… Read More

Remedial education to support learning loss threatened by cuts to development aid

by Lindsay Brown | Jan 23, 2023 | Aid, Learning

The data is in: The COVID-19 global pandemic has been one of the most destructive events for student learning across globe, with the worst effects among the most vulnerable students – those in low-income and/or conflict-affect contexts. Globally, 1.5 billion students in 188 countries were unable to attend school in-person. Read More

Mitigating Learning Loss: how to regain lost literacy after Covid school closures

by Colin Alfred | Jan 16, 2023 | Learning

The World Bank has estimated that ‘learning poverty’ – children unable to read and understand a simple text by age 10 – has increased from 53% before Covid to a new level of 63% globally and 70% in several lower middle income countries (LMICs). And UNESCO reports that: “In low-income… Read More

Teacher absenteeism and children’s learning – the elephant in the classroom

by Margo O'Sullivan | Mar 29, 2022 | Learning

Prior to COVID-19, 6 out of 10 children globally and 9 out of 10 children in Sub-Saharan Africa, were not learning. With the significant learning losses during the pandemic, even more children are at risk of learning poverty and lifelong poverty. COVID-19 school closures highlighted further the issues around learning… Read More

Adopting a holistic approach to examining learning loss as a result of school closures in Ethiopia: including socio-emotional learning

by Stephen Bayley, Darge Wole Meshesha, Paul Ramchandani, Pauline Rose, Tassew Woldehanna and Louise Yorke | Dec 13, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This blog was written by Stephen Bayley, Darge Wole Meshesha, Paul Ramchandani, Pauline Rose, Tassew Woldehanna, and Louise Yorke. It was originally published on the RISE...

A ‘revolution in data’ is needed to create an equitable future through education

by Pauline Rose | Nov 17, 2021 | Learning

This blog was written by Professor Pauline Rose, Director of the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre at the University of Cambridge. It was originally...

How African countries can reform education to get ahead after pandemic school closures

by Noam Angrist | Aug 2, 2021 | COVID-19, Learning

This article was written by Noam Angrist, Executive Director of Young 1ove, and Research Fellow, University of Oxford. It was originally published on The Conversation on 12 July...

Seizing this COVID-19 Opportunity to Transform Education Fundamentally

by Mike Douse | Jul 23, 2021 | Learning

This article is contributed by Mike Douse independent International Education/TVET Adviser, who argues that education’s unimaginative and over-cautious responses to COVID-19...

Reflections on the gendered impact of COVID-19 on education of children with disabilities in Nepal

by Shruti Taneja Johansson, Nidhi Singal and Niraj Poudyal | Jun 28, 2021 | COVID-19, Education and Disabilities

This blog was written by Dr Shruti Taneja-Johansson, Department of Education and Special Education, University of Gothenburg (Sweden); Professor Nidhi Singal, Faculty of...