Education Cluster Contingency Plan 2020 published by CEHRD with contains Nepal Education Cluster during Covid 19. The first case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was reported in December 2019 in Huwei, China. Up to 23 March 2020, 207,860 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and 8,657 have died from the disease across 166 countries. On 11 March 2020, WHO declared the disease to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHENC) and classified COVID-19 as a pandemic. Nepal has reported two positive cases, of which the first one has recovered and the second one is undergoing treatment.
Nepal’s education sector educates 993,900 3 to 5-year old children in early childhood educational development centres and pre-primary classes (ECED/PPE), 5,165,186 5 to 12-year-olds in basic education (Grades 1–8) and 1,554,792 13 to 16-year-olds in secondary education (Grades 912). There are a total of 35,055 schools including community (government), institutional (private) and traditional (religious) schools.
About 26% of all students enrolled in school education (ECED to Grade 12) attend institutional schools. There are 226,931 teachers and 30,448 ECED/PPE teachers deployed in public schools and 119,679 in institutional schools. A total of 2,544,025 students are enrolled in residential/boarding schools, of which 69,003 are children living with disabilities. Nepal has achieved gender parity in school enrolment at all levels.
The Education Cluster will support the development of and disseminate education-specific messages targeting teachers, parents, and children. Furthermore, community campaigns will be run by government with support from Education Cluster members to contain and minimize the spread of COVID-19 within education institutions and from these institutions into their catchment areas.
These campaigns will raise awareness among students, teachers and parents about social distancing, self-isolation when feeling unwell, handwashing and hygiene in schools and the regular dissemination of information.
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