Coronavirus: ministers should use crisis to improve education for girls, Malala’s father says – The National

Coronavirus: ministers should use crisis to improve education for girls, Malala’s father says – The National

Coronavirus: ministers should use crisis to improve education for girls, Malala's father says. The teacher father of Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani education activist who survived a murder attempt by the Taliban when she was 15, said on Saturday that the coronavirus pandemic offers a chance to reflect and improve education for girls.. "There are 259 million children and youth who are not in schools right now," said Mr Yousufzai.. The girls are not in school because of the patriarchal governments - governments that invest less in girls' education," he said.. The letter called governments to keep commitments to students by helping them connect to more remote learning opportunities and ensuring girls can re-enrol when schools are open again.. With many children not returning to school until September due to the pandemic, governments need to encourage more collaboration and community engagement to help teachers restart classes in a post-coronavirus world, another leading educator said during the conference.. Give us the opportunities to really do what we know is best for our communities because we can and we've been doing that as well.". A poll of the conference attendants found that leadership is less of a priority now than collaboration for teachers