News Half of world’s student population not attending school: UNESCO launches global coalition to accelerate deployment of remote learning solutions As of late Tuesday, over 850 million children and youth – roughly half of the world’s student population – had to stay away from schools and universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Nationwide closures are in force in 102 countries and local shut-downs in 11 others.
Blog Supporting continued learning during COVID-19 Resources to consider if uninterrupted online learning isn’t possible
Blog Shining a light on promising practices in refugee education As a Syrian, people often ask me about how the war in Syria can be stopped and how we, the youth, will rebuild our country. Some of it is out of my control. Some of it is not.
Event ICT in Education Webinar on the use of ICT/Digitalization in Education and as an educational tool for lifelong learning across sectors. (English at 10am local time in Bern, Switzerland; French at 3pm local time.)
Event Webinaire sur l'utilisation des TIC en éducation (en français) Webinaire sur l'utilisation des TIC et de la numérisation dans l'éducation et comme outil pédagogique pour l'apprentissage tout au long de la vie dans tous les secteurs
Blog Scaling Innovations in EiE - learnings from the Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) The Humanitarian Education Accelerator (HEA) - a DFID funded partnership between UNHCR and UNICEF - has been working to better understand the process of scaling in protracted crisis settings. Since 2016, the HEA has aimed to support five humanitarian education innovations that are in the process of bringing their innovations to scale.
Blog Dubai Cares Announces E-Cubed Round 2 Winners We are pleased to share today's announcement from Dubai Cares on the Evidence for Education in Emergencies (E-Cubed) second round of research investments.
Resource Social Support Networks, Instant Messaging, and Gender Equity in Refugee Education This paper addresses the role of instant messaging chat groups to support teacher training and gender equity initiatives in Kenyan refugee camps.
Resource Checklist for ICT Interventions to Support Education in Crisis and Conflict Settings This ICT in EiCC checklist focuses on the intersection of conflict sensitivity principles and ICT design approaches to help ensure that an ICT supported intervention designed to support education activities in a country or community is conflict sensitive.
Resource Assessing the Impact of Literacy Learning Games for Syrian Refugee Children This report provides an executive overview of the impact evaluations of two winning literacy apps, Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster, in the EduApp4Syria competition.
