Covid-19 a cause of the new change
By: Zukhanye Qabe
Twitter: @JustZukhanye
Email: zukhanyeqabe11@gmail.com
It’s been more than two
years since Covid-19 has been identified in South Africa. Not only has it affected
lives, but education was part of the things it affected.
The Covid-19 pandemic
has affected the educational systems worldwide, leading to the near-total
closures of schools, early childhood education and care (ECEC) services,
universities, and colleges.
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Most governments
decided to temporarily close educational institutions to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
As of 12 January 2021, approximately 825 million learners were currently
affected due to school closures in response to the pandemic.
According to UNICEF
monitoring, 23 countries were currently implementing nationwide closures and 40
are implementing local closures, impacting about 47 percent of the world's
student population. 112 countries were currently open for school.
In general, having fewer education options has globally impacted people with fewer financial resources, while people with more money have found education.
New online programs have shifted the labour of
education from schools to families and individuals, and consequently, people
everywhere who relied on schools rather than computers and home life have had
more difficulty accessing their education.
Early childhood
education and care (ECEC) as well as school closures impacted not only
students, teachers, and families, but have far-reaching economic and societal
consequences.
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School closures in
response to the pandemic have shed light on various social and economic issues,
including student debt, digital learning, food security, and homelessness,
access to childcare, health care, housing, internet, and disability services.
The impact was more
severe for disadvantaged children and their families, causing interrupted
learning, compromised nutrition, childcare problems, and consequent economic
cost to families who could not work.
Graduation halls use to
be a venue full of families who came to support their member graduating. A
video attached below is sourced online, combined, and edited by Zukhanye Qabe.
Mr. Lwando Mbungwana a Tshwane University of Technology graduate highlights one of the reasons he’s unemployed after graduating in the audio attached below.
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