Affiliation:
1. University of Johannesburg, South Africa & Technical University of Kenya, Kenya
2. University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract
This chapter explains the interventions by the Kenyan government to cope with the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the education sector. The responses are categorized as short-, medium- and long-term. They include closure of universities to contain the pandemic's spread, equipping and facilitating of pedagogical shift from in-person learning to virtual learning, increase funding to set up information communication and technology and infrastructure to incorporate blended learning, training of staff on digital learning implementation and streamlining education policies towards risk preparedness and disaster management. Moving forward, universities must prepare to deal with future pandemics adequately by being digitally-competent.
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