ince schools have shut down, there has been a significant reduction in the total time students spend studying from 10 hours to merely 2 hours a day, a staggering drop by 80 percent, according to a recent study by the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University. In a webinar hosted on Thursday, BIGD presented these alarming findings. With schools closed all across the country, one would intuitively think that the time students used to spend in classrooms would now be devoted to self-studying. But findings from the study show that self-study hours have in fact declined significantly since the school closure. Different remedial measures of virtual learning to make up for the school hours have also not been very effective. The study shows that only 16% of the students watch educational programs like Ghore Boshe Shikhi and Amar Ghorey Amar School on television (TV).
ince schools have shut down, there has been a significant reduction in the total time students spend studying from 10 hours to merely 2 hours a day, a staggering drop by 80 percent, according to a recent study by the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University. In a webinar hosted on Thursday, BIGD presented these alarming findings. With schools closed all across the country, one would intuitively think that the time students used to spend in classrooms would now be devoted to self-studying. But findings from the study show that self-study hours have in fact declined significantly since the school closure. Different remedial measures of virtual learning to make up for the school hours have also not been very effective. The study shows that only 16% of the students watch educational programs like Ghore Boshe Shikhi and Amar Ghorey Amar School on television (TV).
