Disturbed Education System During Noval Corona Virus Pandemic

How the Noval Corona Virus Pandemic has thrown education around the world in a loop

Schools are closed for few days, and students are stranded at home, with extremely limited contact with friends and virtually no physical activity, thanks to the Noval Corona Virus  pandemic raging across the world. IB, A Levels, ICSE, CBSE all known and recognized boards have postponed or cancelled examinations. Likewise, top colleges like IIT, IIM, Harvard, Princeton have closed.

Closer home, institutions like IITs and IIMs have all closed their campuses and moved classes online. Even standardized tests like GMAT, GRE, SATs, ACT remain suspended and the future of many students are lying balance!Clearly, there is panic all around and educators and students are like confused as to next steps and continuity with respect to educational objectives.

In our opinion there are 3 major education problems that students and educators currently face due to the Noval Corona Virus pandemic:

1. Students caught in the cross-wire:

These are those types of students who are caught in the limbo on account of education outcomes being withheld due to the Noval Corona Virus pandemic. Some of them do not have result because exams either did not happen or were left in the middle.

Many of the students face uncertainty as to their future because their next steps further education or careers are dependent upon them clearing their school or college leaving exams.

I believe that these students, while may face a degree of uncertainty with respect to future, are not facing a very difficult problem.

2. Students 1 year away from school or college-leaving exams:

These students are in a bigger threat because of the Noval Corona Virus pandemic because not only their education process is disrupted, but they also face a big challenge of proving themselves for their next journey.

In the absence of hard academic indicators like grades and marks, many of these students find themselves in a situation where they are unable to differentiate themselves and lack a associated framework to get themselves ready for the jobs and education tasks they face next.

3. Education disruption:

All other students who are away from such outcome-dependent situations like above also face severe education disruption.

In response to the Noval Corona Virus  scare, many schools have moved online and parents seem to have assumed the role of teachers and are fast becoming savvy with resources created for home-schoolers to cause minimal disturbance to their children’s education.

No doubt, that the Noval Corona Virus  pandemic has unleashed the biggest calamity that humanity has faced so far. We all are going through perhaps the most trying circumstances of our life.

Education disturbance impacts our readiness for the future and also has huge economic and lifestyle costs.