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School Hits the Airwaves: Sierra Leone Turns to Education Radio as a Response to COVID-19 Format STORY HIGHLIGHTS Sierra Leone s experience with education radio during the 2014 Ebola outbreak has helped strengthen its radio programming during school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. To ensure radio lessons are interactive and engaging, radio lessons comprise 30 minutes of lectures and 30 minutes of interacting with teachers by phone. This model of rapid response in an educational emergency can be easily scaled up and replicated by other countries, even in low-resource settings. FREETOWN, May 13, 2021 Across the world, radio has been widely used as a tool for remote learning since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. We ve seen this in countries like Colombia, Liberia, Malaysia, and Rwanda, among others. But education radio is now being used in other engaging ways, not only to support distance learning but to enhance in-classroom teaching and the training of teachers.

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