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COVID-19 and Education: World’s Issue 

INCE the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, all schools have been 

forced to suspend classes. Chinese schools impacted by the COVID-

19 pandemic started “School is Out, But Class is On” in universities, 

middle and elementary schools as early as the spring semester of 2020, and 

launched the world’s largest online education. To study and summarize the 

current teaching and education status of the COVID-19 pandemic timely, 

Best Evidence of Chinese Education actively contacted Chinese educators 

and professionals to write for the issue of “School is Out, But Class is On” of 

the journal. After the publication of the special issue on the “School is Out, 

But Class is On” in March, 2020, it has received great attention from educa-

tion peers around the world. Educational researchers in some countries have 

written to the journal and authors to express their interests in hoping to learn 

more about the implementation of “School is Out, But Class is On” in Chi-

nese schools. 

The journal reported the world response of the special issue to the edito-

rial board and received active support from the editorial experts. At the same 

time, the journal paid attention to the education of countries in the world un-

der the background of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the initiative of Professor 

Alan Cheung, the Editor-in-Chief, and Professor Jijun Yao, the executive Ed-

itor-in-Chief, experts of the editorial board also conducted research on their 

own national education under the COVID-19 pandemic from an international 

perspective, and wrote special articles for the journal. Although the journal is 

dedicated to empirical studies in China, when countries around the world 

face the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to education, we need to 

learn from each other’s successful experience and jointly solve the problems 

we face. The editorial board members of the journal are from North America, 

Europe, Australia and Asia. Their contributions to the journal will definitely 

broaden the research horizon of the journal and provide diverse experience 

for the education of countries around the world to respond to the COVID-19 

pandemic. 

Correspondence to:  

Editorial Office 

Best Evidence of Chinese Education 
E-mail: eif.bece@basehq.org. 

 
Conflict of Interests: None. 

Doi: 10.15354/bece.20.ed009 

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