15/12/2021
Problem
In a new era where work, study and travel continue to be restricted, the COVID-19 bug has knocked us further off-track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with a severe shortfall in education, leaving behind a large gap of skipped knowledge within a scholar’s knowledge base. Without consistent support to regain skipped knowledge, students’ populations and other categories of learners may following completion of their study lack significant knowledge at hand to execute different kinds of work.
The economy has been shattered as unemployment gets to its peak faster than ever. The US alone lost 379,000 jobs in February 2021 while according to the UN foundation, more than 70 million people worldwide could fall back into poverty (partly due to unemployment) as a result of the pandemic. The world’s renown physicians have warned that the naughty bug could still be here to stay despite vaccines that are doing wonders. Social distancing will remain a core focus, meaning presence of fewer people at workplaces at a given time, consequently as the COVID-19 epidemic accelerates towards a 2nd and 3rd wave, businesses will continue cutting off their employees and are most likely to resort to temporaries in both sectors that do not require expertise and those that engage professional employees. it is now all about adapting to new measures of living with it if we still have to win the Virus-19. Nonetheless, during the aftermath of the epidemic, as the world heals, significant numbers of businesses will still look at surviving by hiring temporaries. To turbocharge momentum on SDG 1, we have to meaningfully integrate solutions that hasten employability and also integrate new technologies much deeper into ‘Work’ processes.
