EQUATORIAL GUINEA: HIGHER EDUCATION IS GOING ONLINE, BUT WEB ACCESS CHALLENGES REMAIN
July 1st, 2021
The higher education system in Equatorial Guinea has been trying to move studies online because of Covid-19, but students still struggle to get computers and an affordable and fast Internet.
It is hard to ignore the socio-economic backdrop of Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s only independent Spanish-speaking country, when assessing its higher education. It has the world's largest gap between its UN human development score (0.592 in 2019) (1) and per capita wealth (USD6,280 in 2019 – (2), inflated by its minerals and oil reserves.
It is also the ninth least ...
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