An Exploratory Study On The Impacts Of Covid-19 On The Indian Higher Education Landscape: Contemporary Issues And Recommendations

Document Type : Primary Research paper

Authors

1 M.Phil. Scholar in Commerce & Management Amrita School of Arts & Sciences Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Brahmasthanam, Kochi – 682024

2 Former Principal & Professor Department of Economics The Cochin College, Kochi &Professor (Adjunct) Amrita School of Arts & Sciences Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Brahmasthanam, Kochi – 682024

Abstract

Education isthe backbone of any economy. Education extends the country’s scope
for development and a global position. Indian education system thus evolved with the
traditional mode of Guru Kula system and now has reached to a sphere of change and
rapid interventions such as the digital learning system by which the world and the word
education is seeing an aspirational future. Covid-19, a pandemic that marked its first
outbreak at Wuhan in China that soon claimed the entire globe to be in its clutches. The
Government of India jointly in cooperation with the state governments in its palm declared
a lockdown of the nation to bring down the spread of the outbreak by putting a nationwide
standstill in all respects. By the mid of March 2020 when this shutdown (to be referred as
lockdown throughout the article) was called in, all educational institutions in the country,
no matter the levels of study where initially put under its purview and most of the
examinations such as the public (board) examinations, entrance examinations etc. were
put to hold as to bring down the rampant impacts of this pandemic. This has bring about a
novel and an ambitious mode of learning which by all means a distant dream to many i.e.
online education was. This paper is an attempt to showcase the impacts of the pandemic
and how it has brought about changes in the Indian education landscape with a close look
at the recommendations that are aimed at bringing about revitalizing this modern way of
education and as such bring down the levels of contemporary issues and challenges that
the system faces as such in a general and a holistic perspective.

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Int. J. of Aquatic Science
Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
June 2021
Pages 1333-1341

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