‘Lost generation’: education in quarter of countries at risk of collapse, study warns

Covid, climate breakdown, poverty and war threaten return to school after pandemic kept 1.5bn children out of classes

• Their future could be destroyed': the global struggle for schooling after Covid closures

The education of hundreds of millions of children is hanging by a thread as a result of an unprecedented intensity of threats including Covid 19 and the climate crisis, a report warned today.

As classrooms across much of the world prepare to reopen after the summer holidays, a quarter of countries - most of them in sub-Saharan Africa - have school systems that are at extreme or high risk of collapse, according to Save the Children.