A young girl attends her online lessons in her bedroom in Paris as a lockdown is imposed to slow the rate of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) spread in France. Lack of widespread Internet access in developing countries could further widen the education gap with wealthy nations, Unesco warned. — Reuters
PARIS: The UN's education agency said on March 26 it had forged a coalition with tech firms and nonprofit organisations to support more than 1.5 billion students missing class because of the coronavirus crisis.
"Never before have we witnessed educational disruption on such a scale," Audrey Azoulay, director general of the Paris-based UNESCO, said in a statement.
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