Distance learning programmes through television, radio and internet, adopted after the school closure due to Covid-19, remain by and large ineffective, finds a study.
The finding was mentioned in the interim Education Watch Report 2020-21 released virtually by Campaign for Popular Education (CAMPE) yesterday.
The researchers who carried out the study said the prolonged closure, since March last year, is resulting in growing monotony and boredom in millions of children who are confined to their home, away from their peers.
They interviewed 2,952 respondents, including 1,709 primary and secondary students, 578 teachers and 576 parents, picked from eight districts in eight divisions for the study. The interviews were taken over phone in the first and second weeks of last month.