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Gichuhi, Loise; Kalista, Jane – UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, 2022
In Kenya, when schools and universities closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly 18 million Kenyan learners were affected, putting at stake the significant gains the Government has made to providing inclusive quality education. This analysis sheds light on the central question: What facilitates government leadership in crisis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Beth Schueler; Melissa Arnold Lyon; Joshua Bleiberg – Brookings Institution, 2023
Research suggests that takeovers are not a silver bullet for improving struggling school systems. State takeovers of school districts have happened in all major regions of the country but disproportionately affect some types of communities more than others. There are two main reasons states typically give for enacting takeover: low academic…
Descriptors: State School District Relationship, Program Effectiveness, State Government, Government Role
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Nathaniel J. Bray; Garrett A. Till; Mark M. D'Amico; Stephen G. Katsinas – Journal of Education Finance, 2023
This year marks the 20th year of National Access and Finance Survey (NAFS) studies of access and funding issues in public higher education. National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges (NCSDCC) members are surveyed because of their broad knowledge of access and finance issues across education sectors and state government as well. For…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Finance, Budgeting
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Chimbunde, Pfuurai – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
While the outbreak of COVID-19 in December 2019 threatened educational activities in Higher Education globally, it renewed the interest in online learning and teaching in developing countries. To frame our understanding, we employed the Technological Readiness Index lens to investigate the institutional needs necessitated by the sudden uptake of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Online Courses, Readiness
Barrett, Nathan – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in an unprecedented level of uncertainty in all aspects of life as most states and communities operate under stay-at-home directives. There is little doubt that these directives will have economic implications that will affect school budgets for years to come. Identifying and understanding these effects and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Charter Schools, Educational Finance
Yuen, Victoria – Center for American Progress, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has led to the most difficult semester in generations on college campuses across the United States. With that semester now wrapping up, public colleges and universities are facing costs that already dwarf the $7.6 billion in federal stimulus funds that are on their way to these institutions. Absent dramatic new action from…
Descriptors: School Closing, Public Colleges, Higher Education, Budgets
British Columbia Ministry of Education, 2021
British Columbia Ministry of Education's role is to provide leadership and funding to the K-12 education system, through governance, legislation, policy, and standards. The Ministry defines broad best practices and expectations. Specific roles and responsibilities are set out under the "School Act," "Independent School Act,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Governance, Educational Legislation
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van Schalkwyk, François – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This paper is a personal reflection that seeks to capture most of the observable changes that have taken place in South Africa and in its public university system as a consequence of the sudden and global spread of the novel coronavirus. The purpose for doing so is to provide a record of how the South African university sector has responded to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education
Natow, Rebecca S. – Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, 2021
Broadly conceptualized, federal-state partnerships refer to collaborations between the federal government and states to create or implement policy. In the higher education policy arena, such partnerships have the potential to transform how higher education is funded and regulated, making college more affordable and more accessible to a larger…
Descriptors: Federal State Relationship, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Partnerships in Education
Croucher, Gwilym; Locke, William – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2020
This paper summarises factors and emerging trends for higher education following from the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the responses of providers and governments. It is framed as a provocation to stimulate discussion about futures for higher education in Australia and beyond following the immediate COVID-19 disruption. While…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
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McKinney, Stephen J.; McKendrick, John H.; Hall, Stuart; Lowden, Kevin – Scottish Educational Review, 2020
The Poverty and Education Network of SERA was launched in 2015. Since that date the Network has highlighted new and relevant research on the complex inter-relationships between poverty and education for children and young people, mainly focussed on how poverty impacts on school education. One of the aims has been to showcase new research at the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Poverty, Child Health
Chang, Gwang-Chol; Eck, Matthias; McOmish, Elspeth; Sass, Justine; Vargas Tamez, Carlos; Wallet, Peter; Imhof, Adolfo Gustavo; Montoya, Silvia; Li, Yifan; Antoninis, Manos; Murakami, Yuki; Zekrya, Lema; Dewan, Pragya; Mishra, Sakshi; Mizunoya, Suguru; Onam, Oscar; Reuge, Nicolas; Yao, Haogen; Yameogo, Jean Luc; Brossard, Matt; Dreesen, Thomas; Dsouza, Andrea; Jeon, Youngkwang; Kamei, Akito; Nagesh, Radhika; Nugroho, Anindita; Pontuschka, Rafael; Akmal, Maryam; Azevedo, João Pedro; Azzi-Huck, Kaliope; Cobo, Cristobal; Gilberto, Alison; Holla, Alaka; Shmis, Tigran; Tanaka, Nobuyuki; Wong, Yi Ning; Carvalho, António; Charbonnier, Eric; Doumet, Marie-Hélène; Heckmann, Corinne – UNICEF, 2021
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have collaborated in the third round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered by the UNESCO…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Coping
Hough, Heather; O'Day, Jennifer; Hahnel, Carrie; Ramanathan, Arun; Edley, Christopher, Jr.; Echaveste, Maria – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
On July 17th, 2020, Governor Newsom announced that all K-12 schools in California counties with rising COVID-19 infections would be required to teach remotely. Without a strong focus on improving the quality of remote education at scale, students could lose up to a year's worth of learning, and as many as 1.1 million students could fail to…
Descriptors: Leadership Responsibility, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
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Boothby, N.; Hart, A.; Chandler, H.; Dupuy, D. – Perspectives in Education, 2021
War, natural disasters, and other emergencies regularly disrupt children's education in developing countries. The digital divide has long since affected low-resource and rural schools' responses to crises that necessitate distance learning, often excluding children in remote and rural parts of countries from internet-dependent online learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Access to Computers
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Tamrat, Wondwosen – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
This study was conducted to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the private higher education (PHE) sector in Ethiopia. The study employed a mixed-methods design and used diary and survey questionnaires as key data generation tools. The results of the study revealed that the pandemic has severely affected the academic and business operations of PHE…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, Private Colleges
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