COVID-19 and Its impact on Caribbean Students

This three-part podcast series examines the impact of COVID-19 on Caribbean students, and how the pandemic brought to the surface longstanding inequities in the education system.

It highlights the challenges, inequities, and struggles faced by students, their parents, and their teachers in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago during the global pandemic, which were aggravated by the region's elitist model of education. The series uses the pandemic as a starting point to examine what needs to change in Caribbean education systems to make them more responsive to the needs of young people and ensure greater success for all.

This project received funding through a grant from the National Geographic Society’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund for Journalists.