Home-based learning blues: Life in a rental flat during the COVID-19 circuit breaker

Extract from Author

It is 9am and Ella is about to attend her first lecture as a polytechnic student.

She fires up her live lesson, Introduction to Accounting, on her laptop, keeping her camera on long enough for her lecturer to register she’s there. Just long enough – before a loud cry can shoot through the hall, or one of her younger brothers crawls into frame.

Written by
Christy Yip
Ruth Smalley

Wednesday,
29 April 2020

Merit Award, Story