Education Challenges and Sustainable Development in the Era of COVID 19: Case Study on MENA Region

Abstract

COVID-19 pandemic has changed many aspects of our lives; The effects of the pandemic on education have been devastating due to learning losses to many students where this raise challenges for remote education, it is very important to study education from different sides as it raises people’s productivity, creativity, promotes entrepreneurship and technological advances. SDGs 2030 shows the importance of education, is that all countries should “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”, this recognized the important role of education as a main driver of development and in achieving the other proposed SDGs’ The Problem of this study is that COVID 19 affected the quality of education and its sustainable development. This will raise a question to what extent did sustainable development was affected by the novelties of education resulted from Corona virus. So; this study will analyze the sustainability in the educational system in the MENA region during the period 2011-2019. The study concluded that the education index has a positive and statistically significant impact on sustainable development (HDI).