Libyan students are currently facing difficulties in getting themselves educated, unlike their counterparts in African countries.
Already, the effect of war had subjected them to frail education, and currently, they had to face the challenge of getting little education in the hand of coronavirus pandemic.
With the number of cases surging unhindered across the North African country schools have tried different tactics from opening outside to seeking donations for extra disinfectants and facemasks to allow teaching indoors.
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However, even those who have had no teaching for six months, or much prospect of it during the rest of this year, will have to pass an exam in order to progress to the next grade, the authorities have said.
On her experience, a teacher Amal Qleiwan, who is also the mother of a 10-year old said “Students did not study anything. We did not teach anything for the students to learn. This is not a solution,”
“The decisions by the ministry of education are random and are not studied well.”
University professor, Ahmed Falaq, is homeschooling his two children, aged 10 and 8, and his two nephews, aged 12 and 10.
“What will students do if there is a new wave of coronavirus? They will miss two years of their education. This is a big problem for parents and students. We will have a generation of students with weak education,” he explained.
Libya currently has recorded more than 41,000 cases of the coronavirus. The United Nations has said it is “spiraling out of control”.
Meanwhile, according to U.N. estimates, the fighting in Libya had already displaced more than 150,000 people, 90,000 of whom are children and closed 200 schools, depriving more than 200,000 children of their schooling.
As the pandemic started to rage through Libya since August, medics working in the war-ravaged country’s few functioning hospitals faced their nightmare scenario – a surge in cases and dwindling resources.