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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 and what are the future plans of Indian schools in the country. Q: The current Board took office in Ap...

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 is wearing a tank top, regardless of the season, and doing chin-ups using the slats under his loft be...

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 already precarious educational foundation of the continent. So what’s the most cost-effective way to a...