The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has presented significant challenges to education systems. These have included whole system shutdown of schools, the cancelling of national examinations and a shift to distance and digital learning. Regular school inspections have stopped in many countries for the time being and the participants of a recent webinarContinue reading “School inspections during the pandemic”
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International perspectives on re-opening schools
By Dr Jo Neary Introduction By 18 March 2020, 107 countries implemented national school closures in response to the corona virus pandemic. Much of the knowledge regarding the utility of school closure in pandemics comes from previous modelling of influenza pandemics. A rapid review of evidence1 described two such pieces of evidence: the UK Department of Health’s commissionedContinue reading “International perspectives on re-opening schools”