Arab schoolkids told 'turn on the TV' for lessons at home

A student attending an online class at home in the West Bank village of Dura near Hebron on March 17. — AFP

TRIPOLI: Either on television as in Libya or on tablets in the IT-savvy Gulf monarchies, in the time of novel coronavirus millions of schoolchildren around the Arab world are now learning lessons at home.

Governments across the region have shuttered schools, forcing pupils to stay away in a bid to combat the virus, but at the risk of deepening an already worrying educational divide.