Education Post Covid - Remedies

School closures during COVID-19 have left over a billion students out of school. At the same time, all countries are undergoing the largest economic contractions of our lifetime, reducing public budgets and household incomes. Globally, a school shutdown of 5 months could generate learning losses that have a present value of US$10 trillion. By this measure, the world could stand to lose as much as 16% of the

investments that governments make in this cohort of students’ basic education. Without drastic remedial action, the world could thus face a substantial setback to the goal of halving the percentage of learning poor — and be unable to meet the goal by 2030. (World Bank, 2020a) In this context, the World Bank underscores the need for swift policy responses to offset the learning losses resulting from the pandemic

and accelerate learning by building more equitable and resilient post-COVID education systems, that enable children to learn continuously both in schools and at home. The literature suggests household income losses would actually generate great negative impact on school dropouts and eradication in social cohesion paradigms during the pandemic.