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Diversifying approaches to teaching, learning

Conventional wisdom has its own flaws, especially in an ever-changing world. Things cannot remain unchanged when the world is moving in a different direction.

In the recent past, the COVID-19 pandemic came and went, but taught us invaluable lessons.

One of them is the need to diversify approaches to teaching and learning. The big question is whether there is anything we learnt from the pandemic. It seems that during the pandemic, we adopted provisional measures geared towards surviving the ordeal rather than having sustainable adjustments that could usher in a completely novel dispensation. In the classroom theatre, COVID-19 had made teacher-student physical instructional interactions impossible. Students sat at home unattended to for a while.

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Rising abortion figures demand urgent action

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