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Since the pandemic began, parents have had to negotiate their own workplace demands and other responsibilities with around-the-clock child care responsibilities.

By: Times News Service Dr Baby Sam Saamuel, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Indian Schools in Oman Ensuring students are able to continue their education even while schools were shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and moving all academic and extracurricular activities online, are among the achievements the current Board of Directors of Indian Schools in Oman will most fondly remember when their term ends this April. Board Chairman Dr Baby Sam Saamuel, tells Times of Oman how they did it an...

Ilona Bannister and her husband, Tim, with their sons. Photograph: Muir Vidler/The Guardian A typical weeknight evening in my house might go something like this. I help my nine-year-old son prepare for a spelling test. I sit on the floor and say “territory”, and watch as he lies on his back with his legs in the air and writes it down on a whiteboard next to him, eyes closed, with his left hand. He is right-handed. My seven-year-old i...

Schools are among the worst institutional casualties of complex disasters. This has been the obvious case with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Boko Haram insurgency and other violent conflicts in Africa, which have caused the suspension and destruction of schools. Countless schools have been damaged, closed or destroyed. Untold millions of students have been forced to suspend or to abandon their education because of violence or the pandemic. These disruptions have further blighted the alrea...

Research during the first phase of remote teaching in Victoria reported some students found the workload “too high”, missed interactions with peers, felt their thinking ability was impaired, and reported a difficulty coping with study and life more generally. All these factors impact on students’ sense of well-being. While learning remotely, some children experienced heightened anxiety, stress and other emotional reactions such as depression. These reactions are not always a response to...