This blog was written by Tim Phillips, Head, Teacher Development, based in Manchester, in the English in Education Systems team of the British Council. He worked as a teacher, teacher trainer and project manager for 15 years in Europe and the Middle East. He currently supports British Council activity globally with ministries of education in […]
With the ‘COVID-19 Interviews’, NISSEM has embarked on a series of interviews with actors from government and civil society, in order to understand better the practicalities and implications of national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The focus is on countries in the global south. A full transcript of this interview can be found here. NISSEM […]
This blog was written by Amita Chudgar, Michigan State University. It was published on the Global Education Monitoring Report World Education Blog website on 4 June 2020. “When the schools reopen, I am going to hug my child’s teacher and thank her…” a friend said to me on the phone just three days into a […]
This blog was written by Rt Hon Charles Clarke, consultant on education reform. Charles established the Education World Forum which is one of the largest gatherings of Education Ministers in the world. This blog was published on the Cambridge University Press website on 29 May 2020. The impact of COVID-19 COVID-19 has impacted the education […]
This blog was written by the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report team and originally posted on the GEM Report World Education Blog website on 1 April 2020. A lot of the discussion, and rightly so, has been about the effect of school closures on students. Education, as they know it, stopped from one day to […]
