Combating Post-Covid-19 Social Inequality among Learners in Primary and Post-Primary Schools in Uganda
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Date
2020
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Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance
Abstract
Following the World Health Organization (WHO) announcement that COVID-19 is a global
pandemic because of the many lives it had claimed worldwide in March 2020, education
institutions are some of the hard-hit areas of the economy. With many countries taking drastic
decisions to close education institutions, the biggest dilemma faced by governments and
policymakers between closing schools within barely weeks of opening for the first quarter of
the 2020 calendar year, was a trade-off between accomplishing the required curriculum of the
education programs and saving lives from the coronavirus. Education institutions, including
schools, colleges and universities, proved to be among the high population concentration
centres4. The challenge facing schools is that apart from having many people interacting on a
daily basis (both learners and instructors), there is a dynamic, interactive exchange between
external persons and those residing within the physical boundaries of schools. This increases
the chances for the spread of the deadly coronavirus infection. The complexity of having the
non-boarding educational institutions where learners and teachers interact regularly with
local communities, poses a threat with regard to community transmission of coronavirus,
which is likely to create a health crisis that Uganda’s weak economy is currently ill-prepared
to handle.
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Post-Covid-19, Social Inequality, Learners, Post-Primary Schools
Citation
Kyohairwe, S. B., Muriisa, R. K., & Karyeija, G. K. (2020). Combating Post-Covid-19 Social Inequality among Learners in Primary and Post-Primary Schools in Uganda/Lutte contre l’inégalité sociale post-COVID-19 parmi les apprenants des écoles primaires et post-primaires en Ouganda/Luta contra a desigualdade social pós-Covida 19 entre alunos das escolas primárias e pós-primárias do Uganda. Africa Journal of Public Sector Development and Governance, 3(1), 188-203. https://doi.org/10.55390/ajpsdg.2020.3.1.11