EMMA HARDEN-WOLFSON
Assistant Professor in Higher Education Leadership and Policy at the Faculty of Education, McGill University (Canada)
DISTANCE EDUCATION IN CENTRAL ASIA: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
Over the course of the past few years, I’ve had the privilege to be involved with a cross-national research project studying the impact of distance education on educational access and quality in Central Asia. This highly topical research was conceived during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, when students, educators, families, and politicians alike were faced with fundamental questions about how to continue with education if schools were closed and how to ensure pre-existing educational inequalities did not worsen as a result.
Led by the brilliant Kyrgyz public foundation Taalim-Forum, a team of partners in Mongolia and Tajikistan was convened, and a major grant secured from the Global Partnership for Education and the International Development Research Centre through the GPE/KIX programme.