No student imagined that the Corona virus could affect their education in such a way that it will just shut down their schools and colleges for an unspecified time. It will be dimidium if someone says only the economy would have to face more than any other due to the novel corona virus. This pandemic has to lead to a close down of schools and colleges all over the globe and effecting nearly 300 million students in their schedules.

(I am writing this blog with consideration of the present education system. I have some other views on it which you can see in my upcoming blogs about education.)

We can enlist several problems but I am putting light on major ones.

Education is at a halt now; okay may not be online education because some students are now addressing it. Even those who never wanted to study online they are in search of online platforms, courses.

(I will be writing a separate blog on online education, work on progress)

Holidays were given for making social distancing among students but some students consider it as enjoying their times. Of course, why would they think of studying . some students might be watching movies, hanging on social media with friends all day and their education will restart only after this pandemic situation will be ended.

Not every student is ‍the same ‍, this will not happen that every student will understand about their performances. Some will need proper guidance in their subjects and some won’t. Not every student will be doing online courses and will be continuing with their study schedules.

Let me classify the students :

1) The ones they will be aware of themselves in which subjects they are lacking behind, what kind of study they have to do, which kind of methodologies will be helping them to achieve their subjects. They are aware of themselves and they can help themselves with their potentials.

2) Those who have always been dependent upon someone. These students are not self-dependent and they lack self-confidence also. They might be correct many times but self-doubt leads them to lack of dependency on themselves so they are dependent on their friends and teachers. Here is a piece of good news for them, as they have been always dependent upon someone now they have a very great opportunity to improve their potentials and skills so that in future they would be self-dependent and if anything wrong happens they could face such situations very firmly in future.

3) The rest who used to bunk their classes when everything was alright for them the current situation provides no change in their schedules. They are okay in both the situations. It is zero difference for such students even though if school/college is there or not there some students will always remain the same.

4) Students who used to work on their art including singing, writing, playing an instrument, some of them might be crafting their artwork.

5) Few students might be facing problems like “what shall I do?” It is not that they are not having any options or resources for letting their time passed or it isn’t like they are not having any work or something to be accomplished. They are doing nothing neither investing time in studying nor they are enjoying watching movies or some sort of leisure kind of thing. They are totally confused; they are either sleeping more or thinking that’s it. Such students need help from their friends, folks.

Availability of education in the current situation?

As of now some schools and colleges are moving towards video conferencing lectures. Some Universities are providing online courses by various platforms. Those who are moving towards video conferencing like methods they will be achieving three things by their idea.

1) Putting Students on track again: Look after the holidays whenever it is time for re-opening of schools majority of students are not willing to attend the lectures. some get boredom at the house and few they want to learn and meet their friends so that’s why some students are so excited on the first day of school and so some feel like “ I wish we could have few more days of holidays “.

So educational institutions will be achieving this type of goal and yes it’s totally for students.

However, every idea comes with some flaws.

2) Completing the syllabus: Syllabus completion has always been an enemy for teachers. To be honest some teachers complete their syllabus for the sake of students and some for themselves. I won’t go much deep here because this is now a common thing.

3) Students will be learning: whether it is offline learning or online learning if sessions are interesting and interactive students are more likely to learn else they will be complaining about everything and some will try to find another way of learning where they can get what they want.

check out “Can work from home be same as learn from home ? “ .

What can be the impacts on education if corona doesn’t stop?

The very first problem will be that syllabus completion because for 9, 10 & 12-grade students (in India ) they need time for preparation before their board exams (9 grades will need for their pre-boards). And they will only get that time for preparation if their syllabus is completed. So unless their syllabus isn’t completed it is directly going to affect their board exams.

Anxiety, stress, and depression are just going to eat the brains of students because they were not prepared for any such thing and being a lock down for some of them is going hard. Not every student can cope with such things and if this continues for a long time it is not going to be good.

There will be other impacts on engineering and medical colleges. One of them is placement. Practical’s, projects, etc. might be affected too.

As of now, there are summer vacations and most of the schools stay closed during summer vacations. CBSE, ICSE and some other schools/colleges remain open till the end of April.

If you take a look not only it is effecting education but also the nutrition of those students who were dependent on schools for food.

School and nutrition:

Many children worldwide rely on free or discounted meals at schools. Now schools are closed for some students their nutrition isn’t available. In some parts of our country, there were some issues related to safe meals but now there are no schools and no meals. It is the largest program of its kind, feeding 120 million children every school day. India provides a free hot meal a day to every student below the age of 13.

So just not education but due to education, some other things are going to be affected.

Sports:

Sports periods in some educational institutions are deserts. Okay, this subject is very typical at some educational institutions. Some schools and colleges encourage sports on their campuses while some they steal that one hour of period or 45 minutes of physical fitness from students. I don’t know what they think about sports, well I am recalling one online course that I did “learning how to learn “they said that the best way to grow new neurons to help students learning is through physical exercise. It is by far more efficient than any drug on the market to help students in learning.

I know many of you are missing your sports lectures… (Those who used to get at least for them)

Time table:

some students are very time-bounded and they always try to follow their fixed schedules. Now as they don’t have any school/college for them it’s being hard to decide which things should be at what time and on what kind of priority basis?

Not every student will be able to cope with such type of condition. Because students were set with their to-do lists during their academic period. Even if they prepare it now they cannot follow the consistency in it. Of course “Exceptional s” always do what they want to be done in any calamity no doubt in that.

Abroad study :

Students who were willing to study abroad for them now it is a big problem. Many Countries are in lock down and nobody knows till what time this virus is going to be.

So these students have to decide about their future studies. Where to learn, which field to choose? Many of the students, they might be having some plans in their minds. Now they have to change their past ideas, plans for education. Guys remember do not take any decision in hurry.

So if corona doesn’t stop above things might be affected to an unknown time .

How will education be continued after the end of corona?

The students who are already in their self-loss, especially those who are just attending colleges for sake of degree or those who don’t have any meaning to go to school and study. These types of students are already in loss and you guys very well know about your condition! The one who is interested in studying will be facing some problems. No doubt it is a different thing that they will overcome through this situation.

These problems are only assumptions that may be and may not be happened. So hypothetically considering them let’s examine.

1) As schools and colleges were shut from march, including those students who were giving their board exams (10 & 12). Either board would conduct their exams later or they will consider the marks of only five best subjects. Now it is clear that some students will be worried about their previous subjects if such things happen. So most likely board will conduct the exams of remaining papers later .so guys if you are in 10 or 12 and not preparing for exams thinking as I mentioned above then please do prepare even though if your exam won’t be conducted be well prepared the knowledge that you will gain won’t be wasted, learning’s from the subject won’t be taken away from you.

2) Now some students are going to study for 10 and 12 grades. Their school schedules, classes are all at rest. This includes extra classes, weekly tests, and practical’s. Okay, they could be helped through online learning, to give tests but what about understanding any concept on a practical basis? You cannot bring everything online. Not every student will be capable of learning online and clearing doubts online.

The syllabus is vast and time for completing it is not going to be sufficient. Let’s not say this line “completing syllabus” because just completing the syllabus in a short period will be like “beating the clock “.

Suggestions :

1) Revision: Revision can help a student in two ways. First, it will help students to recall their topics that were covered in the past, during their lectures.

Secondly, if a revision is done properly it will help students to increase their confidence plus reduce anxiety. Resulting this will lead students well prepared for the examinations.

2) Don’t run the syllabus: I know some teachers who put their legs in student’s shoes will be doing their best for their students not because they will get something from them but they want students should be tension free from their subjects. I request all the teachers to do the same.

3) It might be hard for some students to participate in learning again because they had this gap. But it is not that hard as you are imaging. No one is telling you to study all day.

You enjoy for some time…………

You study for some time…………

And these sometimes will be converted into easy and plain days of your life. So if you have been enjoying all the days till today’s date then from now on wards make sure you are making a time table in which you are going to include your study time and your leisure time. Follow your time table and yes don’t you think about tomorrow start doing it from this moment. Yes right now.

Last words:

Look at human anatomy when you (students) were studying with the busy schedules you used to complain about your colleges/schools that you don’t get holidays, you don’t have any free time. You even wished many times for unexpected holidays. Now when your schools, colleges are shut many of the students are willing to go to their respective schools/colleges. Of course, not everybody will have the same thought. Some of you might be thinking that schools/colleges should never be reopened. Ha-ha sorry to break your dreams that are never going to happen so get out from your wonderland.

Education would be continued through online mode .