“Schools must remain open for as long as possible with adequate social and public health measures, and governments must use the summer months to implement measures that protect face-to-face classes in the next school year,” state the latest recommendations from the experts.
The recommendations were adopted due to the increase in daily cases of covid-19 in several countries in the region.
The WHO regional director for Europe, Hans Henri P. Kluge, quoted in the text, described the summer as a good opportunity to develop and adopt all anticovid measures necessary to maintain face-to-face classes and pointed out that the closure of schools has an effect ” harmful to the education, social and mental well-being of our children and youth. “
According to Kluge, the time has come to work hard not to let the pandemic “rob children of their education and development.”
In turn, the Unicef regional director for Europe and Central Asia, Afshan Khan, highlighted the negative impact of online classes on the education process, particularly for vulnerable and marginalized minors.
“We need to work together throughout the summer to make sure the kids can safely return to their schools and catch up on their classes,” he said.
The director of the UNESCO Institute for the Use of Information Technologies in Education, Tao Zhan, for his part, also advocated strengthening the education and health systems since “the future of this generation is at stake” .
(Sputnik)
