Comment: We must prevent Covid-19 from causing a Global Education Disaster

The education losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic are invisible, but will leave millions of the world’s poorest children carrying the scars of diminished opportunity. The world can – and must – take immediate steps to mitigate the damage.

The impact of Covid-19 on education could lead to millions of children missing out on opportunities. Picture: File Picture.

“The beautiful thing about learning,” the great blues guitarist B.B. King once wrote, “is that no one can take it away from you.” 

Born and raised in poverty, King understood the value of education as a force for change. If only political leaders responding to the Covid-19 pandemic had an ounce of his insight.