SOMALI REPORT SAYS COVID-19 INSPIRED ONLINE TEACHING CAN HELP DEVELOP UNIVERSITIES, BUT POORER STUDENTS NEED HELP ACCESSING CLASSES

The halting of physical access to universities in Somalia by the Covid-19 pandemic is widening social-economic inequalities in Somalia, a country slowly emerging from a long civil war, a new study has argued. While some universities have worked hard to continue teaching and researching through online services, these are only available to students with sufficient finances to access them. Poor students have lost out, noted ‘Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Education in Mogadishu’ published by Somali Public Agenda think tank – ...


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