COVID 19 CREATES E-LEARNING SYSTEMS THAT COULD DELIVER TERTIARY EDUCATION TO PRISONS
September 12th, 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic’s expansion of online learning has created new higher education opportunities to teach African prison inmates, even if some jail administrators and government officials have often been reluctant to take advantage of these options. The idea that prison can deliver personal growth and reform as well as punishment and justice is not universally accepted across the continent, restricting the potential of higher online learning for inmates.
It is unclear how many university students are among the 1,194,497 people behind bars in Africa ...
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