To help students deal with the adverse impacts of school closures, the Government of Bangladesh introduced remote learning. A World Bank study finds that access to these alternative learning methods and their uptake has been low.
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Generation Lockdown
Schoolchildren Around the World Face a Steep Uphill Battle
Hundreds of millions of children around the world have been unable to attend school for months because of the pandemic. More than 24 million may never return. The future of an entire generation is at stake.
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Children in a Kenyan slum: Around the world, school closures are dimming the future prospects of today s students.
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When the twins Esther and Deborah Pereira still hadn t heard anything from their school by early February, despite months of waiting, they turned to books to satisfy their longing. Their father scraped together his savings to buy them: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Pinocchio and Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
Donor funding rules limit basic research opportunities
Africa’s total research output is merely 1% of the world’s scientific research production and there are no indicators that the situation will improve in the near future, simply because there is insufficient funding for science on the continent, according to Elizabeth Marincola, a senior adviser for communications at the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS).
The issue is that, whereas all the 54 countries in the continent committed themselves to spending 1% of their gross domestic product to fund research and development by 2010, none has achieved that goal since the decision was endorsed by the African Union’s Executive Council in 2007.