Even after 13 months, our world is still battling with global pandemic COVID-19. The pandemic has already infected more than one hundred and three million people, killing about two and a quarter million of them. Recently, several vaccines to inoculate people against the ongoing pandemic have been approved. People in most of the countries are being injected with these vaccines. While the world awaits for the outcome of the ongoing vaccinations, a more aggressive strain of coronavirus is killing many people in several countries, including the UK, the USA, Netherland, South Africa, and Australia. The ongoing pandemic has severely affected almost all aspects of our lives; education being one of them. As a result, majority of students in the world have completely lost access to the traditional way of institutional learning, while others have suffered in different ways and to a lesser degree. Many universities, colleges, and schools were closed during the initial pandemic lockdown during March–May, 2020. Luckily, some higher education institutions were better equipped to switch over to online teaching, either using a Learning Management System (LMS) or use some other online tools to connect with their students. With the help of surveys of students and teachers from several countries, this article aims to analyze the damage caused to the education sector by the pandemic at the global level. Guided by our literature review, and analysis of responses to our two surveys, we also provide a framework for a national education system, which could withstand future global crises like the one created by the COVID-19, and ensure continuity of education to all, especially the poor sections of the society.

即使 13 个月过去了，我们的世界仍在与全球大流行的 COVID-19 作斗争。这场大流行病已经感染了超过一亿三百万人，其中约二又二十五万人死亡​​。最近，几种为人们接种以预防当前流行病的疫苗已获得批准。大多数国家的人们正在注射这些疫苗。当全世界都在等待正在进行的疫苗接种结果时，一种更具攻击性的冠状病毒毒株正在导致英国、美国、荷兰、南非和澳大利亚等多个国家的许多人死亡。持续的大流行严重影响了我们生活的几乎各个方面；教育就是其中之一。结果，世界上大多数学生完全失去了传统的机构学习方式，而另一些学生则以不同的方式遭受了不同程度的痛苦。在 2020 年 3 月至 5 月的最初疫情封锁期间，许多大学、学院和学校都关闭了。幸运的是，一些高等教育机构有更好的能力转向在线教学，要么使用学习管理系统 (LMS)，要么使用其他一些方式与学生联系的在线工具。本文旨在通过对多个国家学生和教师的调查，分析疫情在全球范围内对教育部门造成的损害。在我们的文献综述和对两项调查的答复分析的指导下，我们还提供了一个国家教育体系框架，该框架可以抵御未来的全球危机，例如由 COVID-19 造成的危机，并确保所有人都能获得教育的连续性，尤其是社会的贫困阶层。