18 Mar 2020

Covid-19: Schools, universities prepare for shut-downs

From Morning Report, 8:17 am on 18 March 2020

Schools and universities are figuring out how to teach students from home if they are shut down because of the Covid-19 virus.

They say it is not easy to set up an online course and one Wellington school is having a practice run on Friday.

The Education Ministry has been calling every school in the country to ask if they can teach over the internet amid calls by some experts to close all schools now.

Here's RNZ education correspondent, John Gerritsen.