The dedicated performing arts academy in the Middle East welcomed its first cohort of BA students in September 2019 from the UAE, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Iraq. Following a conservatoire template, the highly select students were immersed in intensive, practice-based training and performance for the first half of the academic year.

Online based digital learning is often more adaptive than in-person or any type of offline teaching and learning programs. The vibrant nature of updates, methods, and techniques for synchronized education is exponentially improving.

The trials and tribulations of e-schooling, whether it is formally structured and overseen by educational institutions, or a less formal model adopted by parents on an individual basis, have been playing out over the course of the lockdown.