Many countries in the region embracing the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan (MENAP) faced profound economic, political, and educational challenges even before the COVID-19 pandemic—for example, ongoing conflict in countries such as Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen caused severe disruptions to the provision of education. COVID-19 further exacerbated the challenges facing the educational sector: about 100 million students in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan couldn’t attend school in person for 4.5 to 14.0 months. 1
But the pandemic also accelerated the shift to digital in education and spurred innovation and agility that made it possible for teaching to continue remotely, even in countries with a poor digital infrastructure. By building on the lessons of the past two years and leveraging educational technology beyond the pandemic, the region’s countries have an opportunity to close the gap, in both educational outcomes and digital literacy, between themselves and the rest of the world. In particular, sharing best practices and innovations among MENAP countries would help educational standards to rise across them.
The region’s current challenges include a failure to attain basic levels of education, bottom-level performance in international assessments, and the widespread lack of digital literacy. 2 Our research has identified six key elements for overcoming these obstacles. If addressed, they could improve educational outcomes across the region.
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