How has your learning experience been affected by COVID-19? What would you tell educators and policy makers to do differently? What would make an impact on your learning experience?
KRC TIMES Education Desk
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives in every country around the world. And this health crisis is creating another crisis – an education crisis. The World Bank estimates that an additional 72 million primary school-age children will fall into learning poverty, due to extended school closures caused by the pandemic. Learning poverty is when a child cannot read and understand a simple text by the age of 10.
The pandemic is amplifying an existing global learning crisis and puts an entire generation of students at risk of losing about $10 trillion in future lifetime earnings.
As the global community works on identifying solutions, the World Bank want to hear from those most affected – young people.
You can do so by telling:
How has your learning experience been affected by COVID-19? What would you tell educators and policy makers to do differently? What would make an impact on your learning experience?
World bank is looking for your most inventive ideas, high quality writing, and solutions to improve education outcomes beyond the pandemic.
Be innovative, be persuasive – and be bold! advises the institution to the participants.
Submissions should include:
- A strong blog or essay, that is no longer than 500 words.
- Your name, age, school, email, and country you live in.
- Photos, videos, visualizations that help support your story, are optional.
How to enter:
Deadline
Submissions are due by midnight February 15th, 2021 EST.
Take part in the World Bank Group and the Financial Times’ third
joint global blog/essay writing competition
