What happened to learning during lockdown?
The closure of all educational establishments has been a shock to pupils, parents and schools alike. Pupils and teachers have been forced to operate remotely at very short notice, pupils have received fewer learning hours [...]
UK population moves drops by 98%
A new online tool from Oxford researchers uses mobile phone data to help tackle Covid-19. Data from mobile phones is being used to understand and predict the impact of the UK’s Covid-19 social distancing measures [...]
Digital access to connect us all
For the APLE Collective, digital exclusion means exclusion from voice, from an ability to participate in the everyday. It means being silenced. It means our knowledge is ignored, which exacerbates economic and social divides. As [...]
Digital Divide in Ireland risks growing social exclusion
Accenture in Ireland has published a report exploring the scale of digital exclusion in Ireland which has found that at least 25% of the Irish population is excluded from an increasingly digital society because of [...]
COVID-19 and the digital divide in the UK
Any health-care development that doesn't rapidly become available to all individuals has the unintended but inevitable consequence of fuelling health inequality. The response to COVID-19 is no exception. Although we have neither effective drugs or [...]
Coronavirus: Scotland facing ‘children’s rights emergency’
Scotland is facing a "children's rights emergency" in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the country's children's commissioner has warned. Bruce Adamson said he had "grave concerns" about the long-term impact of the virus lockdown [...]