Philippines’ ‘dangerous’ heat prompts shift to online classes, power crunch
Manila, The Philippines Reuters The Philippines has cancelled in-person public school classes for the next two days and said the power grid on its main island could be strained as the country grapples with a heatwave that is also affecting other parts of South-East Asia. The state weather agency on Monday forecast temperatures in the […]
Third culture kids: How the internet is changing the way missionary families engage with education
DAVID ADAMS reports…
Afghan girls struggle with poor internet as they turn to online classes
Kabul, Afghanistan Reuters Sofia logs in to class on a laptop in Kabul for an online English course run by one of a growing number of educational institutes trying to reach Afghanistan’s girls and women digitally in their homes. But when the teacher calls on Sofia to read a passage her computer screen freezes. “Can […]
Remote learning is setting back millions of South Asian children – UNICEF
New Delhi, IndiaReuters Hundreds of millions of children in South Asian are suffering because their schools have been closed because of the coronavirus but they lack online devices and connections for remote learning, UNICEF said on Thursday. Authorities should prioritise the safe reopening of schools because even before the pandemic, almost 60 per cent of children […]
Catholic education: Facing enrolment declines, some US dioceses are betting on online schools
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports on the move of some US Catholic schools to permanent online learning…
Unwanted tech helps bridge ‘digital divide’ in lockdown Britain
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation When British single mother Martha sensed another COVID-19 lockdown was looming, one of her biggest worries was how her three young sons would cope with online schooling again when the family still didn’t have a computer. Martha’s children, who are all at primary school in London, struggled during the first round […]