20 October 2021, 7am UK time
Launch of ASER Learning Losses Report – Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Pakistan
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted global efforts to ensure that all children receive a quality education. Pakistan is no exception. School closures to limit the spread of COVID-19 have directly impacted an estimated 40 million school-going learners from pre-primary to higher-secondary levels, in a context where school enrolment, completion, and quality of learning are already low, especially for girls.
To understand the extent of the issue and to develop a body of evidence to inform future policy directions, UNICEF Pakistan has supported a study conducted by Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) on “Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 on Education in Pakistan”, focusing particularly on learning losses due to school closures and the measures taken to support learning for school-going children. It evaluated learning losses incurred due to school closures using the ASER assessment tool and identified the extent to which factors like parental education and wealth index of households and access to technology enabled children to continue learning. The estimates reported are from a survey conducted across 16 rural districts (4 in Balochistan, 4 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 4 Punjab, & 4 Sindh).
ITA & UNICEF would like to invite you for the launch of this report to share key findings from the study on Wednesday 2oth October at 11 am. Please see zoom link below.
Zoom Link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85429197558
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