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COVID-19 is an opportunity to reset education. Here's 4 ways how

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, more than a billion students have been affected by school closures and 272 billion days of learning have been lost or disrupted; Existing educational inequalities have been exacerbated by the pandemic –radical inclusion should be the new normal; The systematic collection and analysis of data relating to education during the pandemic is a model for the future that can ensure evidence-based decision and policy-making in education is free from political agendas. We can learn lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic that could make education policies more evidence-based, inclusive, responsive and transparent. A greater focus on anticipating responses, solidarity within and across countries, agility in managing responses and renewed efforts for collaborative actions will make a better normal for the future. 1.The pandemic put a spotlight on the critical nature of schools and education and on the necessity to safeguard education s...

Covid-19 Transforms Education, Health And Fitness Delivery Services, Opens Doors For IT-Like Growth Trajectory

A structural shift is underway globally in personal consumption of services. The Covid-19 pandemic has demolished barriers to adoption of remotely delivered services and short-circuited what otherwise would have been a multi-decade adoption process. Just like the Y2K opportunity and dotcom boom helped India showcase its attractiveness as an offshore destination for information technology (IT) services, the current global pandemic offers a fertile ground for India to emerge as a global leader in remote delivery of personal services. Education, health and fitness delivery have emerged as the first frontiers of this megatrend. Annually, households spend hundreds of billions of dollars on these services and Covid-19 has presented a unique opportunity for India to capture a significant slice of this spend. With gyms and educational institutions across the world shut down and physical access to doctors getting tougher, people have increasingly relied on remote delivery of t...

Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Global Online Education Technology Market - Growth Drivers, Opportunities and Forecast Analysis to 2026

The  Online Education Technology  market has experienced significant improvements in recent times. This report has all the viewpoints secured answerable for this market's conduct while covering all the focuses from verifiable changes and beginning base year 2020 to 2026.  Components of utmost significance, like drivers & limitations, openings, creation, market players, rivalry, and others, have been concentrated cautiously and remembered for the report to get the ideal image of the market directly and during this study. It likewise has separate parts that incorporate the provincial examinations to image the business sectors with future open doors, followed by the assessed yearly development during the overview period. Market Characteristics The market's development cannot be characterized anytime, which requires the report that incorporates all the central points extending from little to large ones to dodge any unfavorable misfortunes. Components like drivers an...

How COVID-19 deepens the digital education divide in India

A total of 320 million learners in India have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and have transitioned to e-learning; With huge regional and household disparities in access to the internet and technology, this transition has not been possible for all students and educators; The rapid shift to e-learning prompted by the pandemic has resurfaced long-standing issues of inequality and a digital divide in India that must be addressed by future economic, education and digitalization policies. The education system in India is facing a new crisis thanks to COVID-19. Besides the effect on short-term learning outcomes, extended school closures will result in a loss in human capital and diminished  economic opportunities  in the long run. Literature suggests that for countries with already low learning outcomes, high dropout rates, low resilience to shock and inadequate infrastructure to build back better the impact on education will be felt even more deeply. India ha...

Covid - 19 Impact : The missing piece: Where is ‘education’ in the national conversation?

The staggering impact of COVID-19 on American lives and the economy was understandably the central issue in the  first presidential debate  and the  vice presidential debate . But somehow, critical questions around education were absent in both debates. In fact, according to transcripts of  both   debates , the candidates used the word “school” fifteen times, but not always to describe K-12 education. The word “education” itself was stated just three times. Clearly,  this  is a  school year  like no other. A recent Education Week  analysis  found that 74 percent of the 100 largest school districts in the United States opted exclusively for remote learning, dramatically impacting the education of over 9 million students. At the same time, increasing our nation’s educational achievement is a persistent challenge.  The 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) revealed that American students  performed ...

Covid-19 school closure may cost over $400 billion to India besides learning losses

The prolonged closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic in India may cause a loss of over USD 400 billion in the country's future earnings, besides substantial learning losses, according to a World Bank report. South Asia region stands to lose USD 622 billion from the school closures in the present scenario or up to USD 880 billion in a more pessimistic scenario, it said, adding while the regional loss is largely driven by India, all countries will lose substantial shares of their GDP. The report titled  Beaten or Broken? Informality and Covid-19 in South Asia  claims that South Asia is set to plunge into its worst-ever recession in 2020 as the devastating impacts of Covid-19 on the region's economies linger. "Temporary school closures in all South Asian countries have had major implications for students. They have kept 391 million students out of school in primary and secondary education, further complicating efforts to resolve the learning crisis,” said the...

Covid 19 Impact - Online Classes Mean an End to Education for Girls in Rural Areas

“It has been six months since I read any book. My school closed in March and I have not been able to study after that,” said 14-year-old Keerti Yadav. She went to the mango orchards with her mother to pluck mangoes in the last week of June. “My mother was not working at that time. Now she has gone back to working as a domestic help and I do the chores at home,” she said. The family has only one multimedia phone and her brother uses it for his online classes. Ever since unlock was announced in the state of Uttar Pradesh, 14-year-old Keerti Yadav started to go to the fields with her mother to help her in agricultural work. Keerti Yadav is a resident of Shravasti district in Uttar Pradesh. Keerti had written her class VIII examinations in March before her school was closed, following the nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Girls like Keerti Yadav in the rural parts of Shravasti district have had to stop attending online classes since boys get to use the mobile phones at...