The long shadow of Covid on kids' education
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The pandemic has left an indelible mark on the education of children around the world. Today on Business Daily, the BBC's Nisha Patel speaks with young people in the UK and India about how their futures have been affected by missing education. We'll also hear from Maya Sukumaran, Principal of Gitanjali Senior School in Hyderabad, India, for her thoughts on how online learning is changing students' relationships and behaviour. And Hans Sievertsen, an economist at the University of Bristol, lays out some of the expected impacts to the economy of all this lost learning.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily with me, Nisha Patel. |
| 0:05.3 | As the school year draws to an end in many parts of the world, |
| 0:09.3 | it's been another tough year for millions of children, |
| 0:12.4 | whether they've been learning online or in the classroom. |
| 0:15.6 | I really want to meet my teachers in person because that bonding is really different and also my friends. |
| 0:22.9 | Say someone had COVID, then we do have to go home. |
| 0:27.7 | These kind of disruptions add up to millions of hours of lost learning. |
| 0:33.0 | Today we ask, what are the possible long-term effects on children, our workforce of the future? |
| 0:40.2 | It will take a generation, I feel, to get back all the children who were in school after this gap. |
| 0:48.5 | That's Business Daily on the BBC. |
| 0:53.0 | Good morning, children. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning, children. |
| 0:55.0 | Good morning, ma'am. |
| 0:56.3 | Good morning, ma'am. |
| 0:58.7 | It's 8.30 in the morning in Hyderabad, India. |
| 1:02.2 | And the pupils of Gittanjali Senior School are all at home, ready for the day in their virtual classrooms. |
| 1:11.9 | They're in an English lesson, all in uniform, hair neat, cameras on, poised and listening attentively, |
| 1:19.8 | which is definitely a good thing because they've got a busy day ahead. |
| 1:23.5 | My name is Vedah Reddy Wai. |
| 1:25.5 | In our first period, we have 15 to 20 minutes per assembly. And we also have some exercises, yoga and meditation. |
| 1:34.1 | After that, we start our classes. Then after every period, we have either eye exercises or stretching exercises. |
| 1:42.6 | We have six periods in total. |
| 1:45.4 | This is what online learning has looked like since the start of the pandemic last year. |
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