Navigating COVID-19: From girls at risk to schools reopening | May 2020

Education and gender are often neglected in responses to disease outbreaks.
During COVID-19, countries cannot risk erasing recent progress in advancing girls and women's education. Learn more about how we can ensure that
girls and women are not left behind.

Five steps to support education for all in the time of COVID-19

What can countries do to ensure #LearningNeverStops? What roles do teachers and learners play? How can advanced planning help education systems prepare for the next steps? Don't miss these five short documents to help you navigate educational planning during the COVID-19 crisis.

Niger: How to reconcile demographics and quality education?

In 2030, 1.2 million children in Niger will be ready to enter the first grade. That’s up from 600,000 in 2020. While this is putting immense pressure on the education system, the country is taking proactive steps to get ready for the future.

Q&A: Open government in education

What exactly is ‘open government’, and how can it affect the lives of students and others in the education sector? We caught up with IIEP Programme Specialist Muriel Poisson on the latest addition to our book series on Ethics and Corruption in Education. Read more.

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Training opportunities:

Online and Paris, France: Applications are open for our 1-year and 6-month training programmes in educational planning & management. The course starts online in September 2020.
Online training in Portuguese: Starting 20 May, register to join a course on policies related to teachers, information communication technology (ICT),
or assessments.
Online training in Spanish: Register for a course on crisis-sensitive educational planning, starting on 20 June.
Dakar, Senegal: Apply by 15 June for the 'Sectoral Analysis and Management of the Education System' course in French, starting in October 2020.

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