Education in a Time of COVID-19: video now available

We are delighted to share the video recording of our webinar 'Education in a Time of COVID-19' which took place on 10 July 2020.

In early July 2020 United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to education, Dr Koumbou Boly Barry, presented a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council on ‘The Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on the Right to Education’.

On 10 July 2020, marking the report and responding to worldwide debates on education, the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre and Centre for International Education Research hosted a webinar on education in a time of COVID-19.

Speakers:

• Dr Koumbou Boly-Barry, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education
• Professor Allyson Pollock, Director of the Newcastle University Centre for Excellence in Regulatory Science; member of Independent SAGE and co-author of ‘When Should a School Reopen? 
• Professor Simon McGrath, UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development, University of Nottingham; member of DFID’s Scientific Advisory Group

Chair: Professor Aoife Nolan, Professor of International Human Rights Law and HRLC Co-Director

Additional resources:

• UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education
• Right to education: impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the right to education; concerns, challenges and opportunities - Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right to education to the 44th Session of the Human Rights Council, A/HRC/44/39
• Independent SAGE
• The Independent SAGE Report 3, When Should a School Reopen? Final Report. 28 May 2020
• Abidjan Principles on the human rights obligations of States to provide public education and to regulate private involvement in education