UNESCO: Corona caused the largest educational disturbance in history

The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, “UNESCO”, Audrey Ozilai, revealed that the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic has caused the largest educational disruption in history.

Ozilai pointed out that the global wave of closures that has swept schools and universities has affected the majority of students, and led to a dangerous exacerbation of inequalities in education, and radical transformations that affected entire educational systems around the world, warning that the closure of schools and universities for long periods and its repeated leads to exacerbating losses Learning and increasing the effects on the mental health of students.She stressed the need to keep schools open or reopen them as soon as possible, taking into account full compliance with health rules, noting that the UNESCO Global Education Alliance is working to ensure the continuation of education by all means, including distance education, although it cannot replace education inside Schools.

An indication that when the pandemic reached its peak in the spring of 2020, about 1.6 billion students in more than 190 countries were out of school, accounting for 90 percent of the total number of students in the world.

She added: “Today, a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, more than 800 million students are still facing major disruptions in their education, between a complete closure or a reduction in the number of school hours,” stressing that the crisis may lead to an increase in the annual funding gap allocated to education in the poorest countries. To reach $ 200 billion annually.

Source: RT Arabic | Russia Today