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Sustaining Educational Opportunity in times of COVID-19 in the Caribbean
Event Date: 
Thu, 2020/05/07
Venue: 
Online, Jamaica

Webinar Series on tackling educational gaps depite and after COVID-19 in the Caribbean 

 

As part of the Covid-19 response efforts to educational disruption coordinated by UNESCO and to provide timely information policy advice to Member States in the English and Dutch-Speaking Caribbean, UNESCO is launching a series of webinars focusing on the specific challenges of the Carbbean Small Island Developing States.

 

The webinars examine emerging challenges in the face of COVID-19 in the region due to school closures and aim to explore promising practices and solutions to enable governments to prepare for, manage and deal with the education system in the aftermath of the COVID 19 crisis.

 

"As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the world, it is essential to attend to the educational needs of children & youth during the crisis."

- Professor Fernando M. Reimers, Havard University

 

 “A Framework to guide an education response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020”

May 7, 2020, 09:00 a.m. (EST GMT -05:00, EDT 10:00 am)

Speaker:  Professor Fernando M. Reimers, Global Education Innovation Initiative,
Harvard Graduate School of Education

 

This webinar aims to support decision-makers and education leaders at various levels of educational governance, in public and private educational organizations, to develop and implement adaptive, coherent, and effective education responses to the COVID-19 crisis that is disrupting education globally and in the Caribbean SIDS.

 

Contact : f.khan@unesco.org

 

URL:

https://en.unesco.org/events/sustaining-educational-opportunity-times-covid-19-caribbean

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