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Chinese Higher Education in the Pandemic Outbreak Chinese government has imposed strict measures to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Most face-to-face activities, including teaching, have been banned. Chinese universities and colleges have postponed the beginning of spring semester. Students are not allowed to return to campuses without approval. To provide flexible online learning to over 270 million students, Ministry of Education has launched an initiative entitled ‘Disrupted classes, undisrupted learning’. On February 5, 2020, the initiative was followed up by ‘Guidance on the Organization and Management of Online Teaching in the Higher Education Institutions During Epidemic Prevention and Control Period’ (Ministry of Education 2020). The Guidance requires national and local governments to encourage colleges and universities, together with the rest of the society, to participate in joint implementation of online education. Ministry of Education further requires that new...

Skip to main content ASIA 21 YOUNG LEADERS Online English Language Learning in the Time of COVID-19 Wenchi Yu VIPKID Founder and CEO Cindy Mi speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 at Pier 48 on September 20, 2017 in San Francisco, California (Photo:  Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch/Flickr ).  May 8, 2020 Nearly every community around the world has seen the ways the current state of affairs has rapidly changed day-to-day life. With the World Health Organization (WHO) designating COVID-19 a global health pandemic, schools at all levels across the U.S. have temporarily shuttered their doors. Many have rapidly adopted distance learning practices in an effort to combat the spread of the virus. The sudden global shift to online classes has been seismic - an unanticipated sea-change i...

NCERT joins hands with UNESCO for safe e-learning The national body joins hands with UNESCO, releases handbook to protect students from cyber bullying AddThis Sharing Buttol Hyderabad : With the Covid-19 pandemic necessitating online classes, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has joined hands with UNESCO and released a handbook, called ‘Safe Online Learning in Times of Covid-19’, primarily aimed at students and to protect them from the growing menace of cyber bullying. The handbook, which is available on the NCERT website ( http://www.ncert.nic.in/pdf/Safetolearn_English.pdf ), points out that with Covid-19 closing schools across all States, education departments have made efforts to ensure continuity of learning through various digital platforms. “Millions of learners are turning to online education and with this comes a huge increase in use of electronic devices and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This places childr...