This will be felt in years to come as a consequence of learners progressing to new grades with gaps in their education.
Some educators say that teaching and learning have become an extremely high-pressure exercise, driven by unrealistic targets. “There is a lot of pressure to push the syllabus and get the work done. Every single day sending out work, educators are making them [learners] do something.
After months of being shut and a subsequent break, Institutions are gradually reopening and accepting more grades, with the last cohort scheduled to return. However, battling to make up for the lost days while managing the hostile environment under which they have come to operate.
Strategic planning and research coordinator at the department of various institutes are learning losses measured soon after the disruption will be greater than what is suggested by actual days lost. While there are myriad challenges confronting education in the time of Covid-19, a growing concern equally expressed by learners and teachers is the steady increase of dropout figures.
“We need all stakeholders to assist the department in conveying a message about the importance of going back to Institute,”
Official @ MVN University