Give them some space


With no clear end in sight to home-based teaching and learning (PdPR), students from low-income (B40) families need our help now more than ever.

The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), which runs the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2019, recently found that many students around the world lacked suitable resources to study at home as hundreds of thousands of schools have closed (see infobox).

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