Covid Impact on student life

 Covid Impact on student life


When Covid-19 hit India in March 2020, the entire nation went under lockdown to help flatten the curve and defeat the vicious COVID-19 virus. Doctors, nurses, policemen – everyone put their best effort forward and managed to knock down the epidemic curve by the beginning of 2021. Just when everyone thought that the virus had vanished and things are returning back to normal, the second wave knocked the country, which is said to be almost four times bigger than the first one.


Amid all the volatility and uncertainties that are occurring, the group that has been significantly affected is students as they are in lockdown for more than a year. They are battling the waves of gloom as their future seems to be in jeopardy.




Impact of Lockdown on Student’s Life

The sudden adoption of online learning at all education levels transformed the way we learn. Initially, it completely halted extra-curricular activities and impacted student performance and achievements to a great extend, creating a great challenge for educators.
When a student learns in a tangible environment the turnaround time of learning is less as compared to virtual/online learning. Moreover, the adoption rate in online classes is around 50-60% whereas the adoption rate in classroom learning was around 80-90%.
The lockdown has created serious effects on their physical and mental health, resulting in psychological problems like frustration, stress, and depression.
Student’s routine, sleeping habits and study schedules have hampered gravely.
Cancellation of exams, passing students based on internals may impact their career in the future.
Also, all students are not from the same geographical regions and financial backgrounds, therefore, they struggled in accessing the internet and setting up the learning environment and it has surely impacted their performance and achievements.



Prepare for future shocks by building back better. 

It is imperative that we not only recover from the pandemic but that we use this experience to become better prepared for future crises. To support this aim, countries need to build their capacity to provide blended models of education in the future. Schools should be better prepared to switch easily between face-to-face and remote learning as needed. This will protect the education of students not only during future pandemics, but also during other shocks that might cause school closures, such as natural disasters or adverse weather events. It will also create opportunities for more individualized approaches to teaching and learning. With this in mind, it will be necessary to develop flexible curricula that can be taught in person or online. Additionally, teachers need to be better equipped to manage a wide range of IT devices in the event of future school closures. Offering short training courses to improve their digital skills will help. Using the post-pandemic period to rebuild education systems and make them resilient is a priority. At the same time, it is important to build a future education system that can make better use of blended learning models to reach all learners at their level and to provide more individualized approaches to teaching.



Although this is a long-term process, Ukraine is already taking steps in this area. The authorities have developed regulations for distance education, and efforts are ongoing to continue to expand the number of schools with internet connectivity and access to digital devices and equipment to allow for greater use of blended learning approaches in schools going forward. Even so, “building back better” requires bold action and a vision for the kind of human capital Ukraine will need to grow and thrive in the future. It is critical to continue the larger education reform process that was started initially in 2014, including both the New Ukrainian School (NUS) initiative in school education and the reform of higher education in line with the standards of the European Higher Education Area. Ukraine’s MOES is preparing a project with the World Bank to support learning continuity and operational resilience in higher education through initiatives to expand digitalization in the education sector. These efforts will help higher education institutions to recover from the impacts of COVID-19 while also adapting to more resilient and flexible approaches going forward.

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