Last students graduate: School closures spread in ageing Japan
EIMI YAMAMITSU, TOM BATEMAN and ISSEI KATO, of Reuters, report from the village of Ten-ei…
Explainer – What will happen to girls’ education in Afghanistan under Taliban rule?
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation The Taliban have backtracked on a promise to allow tens of thousands of schoolgirls in Afghanistan to return to class for the new term. Most older girls have been out of school since August when the hardline Islamist movement seized the country. Girls attend a class in Kabul, Afghanistan, on […]
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations
Manila, The PhilippinesReuters The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students are still not allowed to return to classrooms 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools in around 17 countries remain fully closed, while those in 39 countries remain partially […]
Africa’s children need to get back to school to avoid “lost generation”
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThomson Reuters Foundation From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation and meet a pledge to end child labour by 2025. With school closures, income losses, deepening […]
LA Catholic Archdiocese to close six schools due to hardships heightened by pandemic
Los Angeles, USRNS Six Catholic elementary schools in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles are closing at the end of the 2020-21 school year due to financial hardships heightened by COVID-19. “These six schools had been trying to overcome financial challenges long before the pandemic,” said Paul Escala, superintendent of schools for the archdiocese in his […]
Ethiopia hunts for children forced to work, marry during pandemic
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThomson Reuters Foundation Ethiopia has set up a network of committees to identify children forced into work or marriage during the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure schools are safe to re-open this week although campaigners fear it will hard to reverse the damage done. Yohannes Wogasso, school improvement program director at the Ministry […]
Churches as remote learning hubs?: US schools may not open to students this fall, but houses of worship might — for remote learning
G JEFFREY MACDONALD, of Religion News Service, reports on plans to use some US churches as educational hubs during the coronavirus pandemic…
Wow!: Mobile camel library helps to keep Ethiopian children away from child labour
EMELINE WIULBERCQ, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Ethiopia…
Learning equity: In South Africa, two girls’ lockdown learning underlines educational divide
TIM COCKS, writing for Reuters, reports from Johannesburg on the learning disparities which have been exposed during school closures brought about as a result of the coronavirus pandemic…
Hundreds of child weddings thwarted in Ethiopia as coronavirus locks girls out of school
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaThomson Reuters Foundation More than 500 girls have been rescued from child marriage in northern Ethiopia since schools were shut due to the new coronavirus, a regional official said, as fears mount that the pandemic is reversing years of work to stop underage unions. Ethiopia closed its schools in mid-March, sending 26 million […]