Title:
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Higher Education in India
Authors:
Dr. Mohd. Faisal Khan
Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management SMBS, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi-110062
Dr. Fakhra Naeem
Assistant Professor, Department of Management, SMBS, Jamia Hamdard New Delhi-110062
Published:
International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research, Volume 8, Issue 4, 2021
Abstract:
The Covid-19 outbreak has caused disruptions of the entire world economy and caused a huge impact on all sectors including the education sector. The national lockdown and the health crisis ceased educational activities. World-wide all the campuses were closed and teaching had transformed from offline to online. In India, all educational activities being interrupted due to a national lockdown. Policy makers were facing many problems in formulating a new policy related to the education system. Despite all such challenges, the higher education Institutions have managed to ensure the continuity of education and made every possible endeavour to maintain the continuity of education amongst the students. This paper focuses on the major impacts of the pandemic on higher educational institutions and highlighted the numerous measures adopted to ensure consistency in education. Due to Covid-19, many innovative approaches, naive trends and novel interactive software’s have emerged to maintain the education system. In India, 37.4 million students stopped to attend schools, colleges and universities. The educational reforms in India in the COVID-19 period seems to develop a novice approach which opens up various avenues. Higher educational institutes have adopted innovative ways of teaching and learning and research. In this manuscript, some viable suggestions are also proposed to carry out learning and development activities during the pandemic.