The ongoing pandemic has forced the student community to attend classes
through distant learning. Write an article in about 100 -120 words, on the
benefits of this new system of learning.
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Keeping the world’s children learning through COVID-19
With around 1.6 billion children unable to attend school in person, UNICEF is finding ways to keep them learning at home.
By Jason Miks and John McIlwaine
Côte d'Ivoire. A girl points at a TV screen.
UNICEF/UNI320750// Frank Dejongh
20 April 2020
The numbers are unprecedented, the implications enormous. As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the globe, a majority of countries have announced the temporary closure of schools, impacting more than 91 per cent of students worldwide – around 1.6 billion children and young people.
Never before have so many children been out of school at the same time, disrupting learning and upending lives, especially the most vulnerable and marginalised. Here are some of the ways UNICEF is working with partners to keep schools safe and students learning, in classrooms or at home, online and offline – wherever they are.