: With school closures fuelling inequality, fears grow that a whole generation might be lost #IndiaNEWS Standing in front of India’s Taj Mahal, tour guide Raju Usmani fears for his daughter’s future.

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With school closures fuelling inequality, fears grow that a whole generation might be lost #IndiaNEWS
Standing in front of India’s Taj Mahal, tour guide Raju Usmani fears for his daughter’s future. With Covid-19 decimating his income, he may have to pull her out of school just as she is catching up after nearly two years stuck at home.Areeba, 10, is among 160 crore children globally – more than 90% of all school students – who have been affected by pandemic school closures, which threaten to widen wealth inequalities both within and between countries.“We are running the risk of a lost generation,� United Nations education expert Robert Jenkins told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “It is a now-or-never moment to turn things around.�Without urgent action, many countries could end up without the skilled workers they need for their future development, said Jenkins, head of education at UN children’s agency United Nations Children’s Fund. He is also increasingly concerned about the risk of social instability in countries where a large number of youths are left without skills, jobs or hope.Children in low- and middle-income nations have been disproportionately affected as their schools tended to shut for longer and they were less able to access remote learning, UNICEF said ahead of the pandemic’s two-year anniversary on Friday. There are no global figures on the numbers...Read more

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