The pandemic has taken a substantial toll on students’ academic progress as well as on their mental health. Analysis highlights the extent of the challenge and demonstrates how the impact of the pandemic on learning extends across students, families, and entire communities. School systems can respond across multiple horizons to help students get back on track.

By McKinsey & Company

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Schools in 23 countries, with 405 million pupils, are still partially or fully closed because of Covid, the United Nations Children's Fund says. The charity, Unicef, estimates 147 million children have missed at least half of their in-person schooling. Unicef executive director Catherine Russell says children are "the hidden casualties of the pandemic".

By the BBC

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Since the early days of the pandemic masks has become ubiquitous. Whether in the form of a colourful fashion item that went with whatever we were wearing, the regular surgical mask, or the heavy-duty and far less comfortable KN95, almost all of us got used to leaving the house each day with a couple of spares in our pocket. Then, just like that, on Monday 7 March 2022, masks were no longer required in Belgian schools.

By David Willows

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