RECENTLY, the Higher Education Ministry announced that a study would be conducted to review the effectiveness of its Home-based Teaching and Learning programme (PdPR). While this is a laudable effort, it is most surprising that the study is only being conducted after more than a year of delivering education through online learning as a result of movement restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
This demonstrates that policymakers seem to have no sense of urgency in addressing the disruptions caused by the pandemic on the education landscape. Time and again, flip-flop decisions on the opening and closing of schools and higher education institutions (HEI) have left both students and parents anxious, disappointed and frustrated.
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