Remote learning will fail the most vulnerable

Barriers to accessing education are not new phenomena, but Covid-19 has made them more visible

Don O’Leary director of the Cork Life Centre, Winters Hill, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

"Our students have had to climb mountains and were then asked to do a 100-yard sprint at the end."

These were my words in relation to our group of Leaving Cert students on the day they received their results, in 2017. Before we had ever heard the word Covid and had little use for terms like remote learning, digital divide, and predicted grades.