COVID-19 and Digital Divide_ The Fate of School Children in Sabah_Rashid Ating (SHAPE-SEA Commentary).docx ...

Over the past one year since the outbreak of COVID-19, the mode of delivery for education has been shifted, from physical to e-learning class. Like any other states in Malaysia, Sabah also embraces the implementation of e-learning. The 2019 Household Expenditure Survey Report issued by the Department of Statistic Malaysia (DOSM) revealed that Sabah is among the poorest states in Malaysia with the lowest mean of household consumption expenditure compared with other states. On top of that, the same study also revealed that the percentage of absolute poverty1 is the highest in Malaysia, at a tota... Mehr ...