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UNESCO declares a global educational emergency as half of the world's students are unable to return to school

2020-09-01T18:45:21.181Z


Paris - SANA The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization "UNESCO" announced that more than half of the world's students are students


Paris - Sana

The United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO) announced that more than half of the world's 900 million students who are entering their new academic year are likely to continue studying entirely from a distance.

The United Nations News Center quoted UNESCO as saying in a statement that the period from August to October was supposed to witness the return of 900 million students out of 1.5 billion students in the world to schools between the primary and secondary stages, but UNESCO data indicates that half of this number Only he will be able to return to school at this stage, the equivalent of 433 million students distributed in 155 countries.

Given the presence of 128 million students already in the middle of their academic year, UNESCO confirmed that “the number of students who will enroll in school during this period will be 561 million students, that is, one student out of every three students, and therefore one billion students will not enroll in schools, equivalent to two-thirds of the number of students in the world.” To that "the most vulnerable students, especially girls, are the most affected group."

UNESCO explained that “learners and their families are still waiting to receive guidance on what awaits them at the start of the new school year 2020,” noting that “the situation is causing serious problems in light of the persistence of inequalities related to distance learning that affect particularly vulnerable population groups.”

In turn, the Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, said: “The educational crisis is still severe, as many generations are under the threat of school closures, which affect hundreds of thousands of students and continued for several months,” adding: “We are going through an emergency and we must join hands to address it.”

UNESCO indicated that "students around the world have lost an average of 60 educational days since the start of the closures in February and March. This situation results in great dangers, including the risk of dropping out of school, declining quality of learning and negatively affecting the economic and social sectors."

UNESCO called on the authorities to urgently identify the best ways to ensure a safe return to schools and protect the health and safety of students and teachers, noting that it had prepared, in cooperation with UNICEF, the World Food Program and the World Bank, a framework for reopening schools, in a step to help countries prepare for the date of reopening educational institutions and preparing Conditions and Preparation for this Process It is also working closely with the Ministries of Education to map out plans for returning students to the classroom.

UNESCO announced the launch of a campaign to ensure the continuity of learning within the framework of the Global Education Alliance, as this campaign aims to ensure that girls continue to learn during the period of school closures and return to them safely when they are reopened, taking into account the many obstacles that stand in their way outside the field of education, including teenage pregnancy and marriage. Early, forced and violent.

Source: sena

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