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Nearly 500 million young international youth have been deprived of distance education, unicef says.
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Over the past six months, some 1.5 billion international youth have been asked to stay home after school to help minimize coronavirus transmission. More than 30% of these academics, some 463 million, were unable to access distance learning opportunities when they closed their schools, according to a report published Wednesday through Unicef, the UN’s youth firm.
“The huge number of young people whose schooling has been absolutely disrupted for months is a global school emergency,” Henrietta Fore, Unicef’s executive director, said in a statement. “The effect on can be felt in economies and societies over the coming decades.”
School-age children in sub-Saharan Africa were most affected, according to the report, as school systems were not successful in almost a part of all academics through television, radio, the Internet or other remote learning bureaucracy. Many young people in the region have been at a disadvantage in any category since March, according to a report released Wednesday through Human Rights Watch.
Partly to address this asymmetrical access, education officials in Kenya said last month that they were canceling the school year and forcing academics to repeat it.
Forty per cent of academics in the Middle East and North Africa, 38% from South Asia and 34% in Eastern Europe and Central Asia were also unable to be informed remotely, according to Unicef’s report, which found that young people in rural areas were disproportionately affected.
Overall, academics from high-income families with more informed parents seem to be more successful at home, researchers from around the world have discovered. This has reinforced fears that school closures are still a way to exacerbate long-standing inequalities in the pandemic.
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