Paris, 4 August UN Secretary-General António Guterres today launched the Education in the time of COVID-19 and beyond Policy Brief warning that the pandemic has created the most severe disruption in the world’s education systems in history and is threatening a loss of learning that may stretch beyond one generation of students. School closures are also likely to erase decades of progress, according to the Policy Brief, which builds on UNESCO’s data and features recommendations on ways to avert the looming catastrophe.
As the global lead on Education, Culture, Sciences (Natural and Human Sciences) and Communication and Information, UNESCO has put in place number of programs to support direct response to COVID-19 crisis.
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