Impact of COVID-19 on

Higher Education in India

By Ahsan Ali Shaikh
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Initiative takem by
Introduction Financial Aspect Governemnt of India Conclusion
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Current Positive and Negative Post-COVID Trends

Impact of Online
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Introduction
▸ The spread of pandemic Covid-19 has drastically disrupted every aspects of
human life including education.
▸ In India, about 32 crore learners stopped going to schools/colleges.
▸ The sudden shift of education from classroom learning to online learning has
affected both the teaching as well as the learning process

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Current Scenario
▸ Not a very long ago, several leaders of reputed global universities held strong opinion
that, online mode of teaching could never match with class-room teaching environment
▸ Educational institutions directed teachers to engage classes through online mode
using the virtual meeting platforms like Zoom & Google meet.
▸ The teachers who were not well versed with modern technology and mobile
applications had to struggle a lot to engage online classes due to the sudden shift
from face to face teaching to online teaching.
▸ 3 Numbers of Indian students get them enrolled in reputed foreign universities every
year are worst affected by the pandemic due to which student travel and exchange
has seen a drastic decrease

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 Financial Aspect
▸ The economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to be
significantly larger than anything seen since the financial crisis of 2008/09.
▸ In 2020-2021,the budgeted estimate for the Ministry of Education was Rs 99,312
crore,which was revised to Rs 85,089 crore (Reduction of 6.13%).
▸ Institutions are suffering from lost revenue to partial tuition refunds, room and board,
fees, etc.
▸ Facing these shortfalls in expected revenue, schools are turning to cost-saving
measures such as Universities have reduced the number of tenured professorships.
▸ Low paid, contractual professors, have been a major trend in universities/colleges
staffing to reduce the cost of salaries and benefits. This trend will likely accelerate as
colleges/universities have already begun to lay off staff and faculty.
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 Positive Impact of COVID-19
 Move towards Blended Learning: COVID-
19 has accelerated adoption of digital
technologies to deliver education.Education
moved towards blended way of learning.
 Enhance the use of soft copy of
learning material: In lockdown situation
students were not able to collect the hard
copies of study materials and hence most
of the students used of soft copies materials
for reference
 Improved the use of electronic
media for sharing information: Learning
materials are shared among the students
easily and the related queries are resolved
through e-mail, SMS, phone calls and using
different social Medias like WhatsApp or
Facebook.
 Demand for Open and Distance
Learning (ODL): During the pandemic
situation most of the students preferred
ODL mode as it encourages self-learning
providing opportunities to learn from
diverse resources and customized learning as
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per their needs.
 Negative Impact of COVID-19
 Impact on employment: Most of the  Unprepared teachers/students for
recruitment got postponed due to COVID-19 online education- Not all teachers/students
Placements for students may also be are good at it or at least not all of them were
affected with companies delaying the on ready for this sudden transition from face to
board of students. Unemployment rate is face learning to online learning.
expected to be increased due to this
pandemic.
 Payment of Schools, Colleges fee got
 Reduced global employment
delayed: During this lockdown most of the
opportunity- Some may lose their jobs
parents will be facing the unemployment
from other countries and the pass out
situation so they may not be able to pay
students may not get their job outside
the fee for that particular time periods
India due to restrictions caused by COVID-
which may affect the private institutes.
19. Many Indians might have returned home
after losing their jobs overseas due to COVID-
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Initiative taken by Governement
 Swayam provides Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs) with 140 universities
approved credit transfer feature.
Postgraduate students can access this
platform for e-books, online courses and study
materials.
 e-Adhyayan (e-Books) is a platform that
provides 700+ e-Books for the Post-Graduate
courses. All the e-Books are derived from e-PG
Pathshala courses. It also facilitates play-list.
of video content
 e-Pathya (Offline Access) is one the verticals
of e-PG Pathshala which is software driven
course/content package that facilitates
students pursuing higher education (PG level) in
distance learning as well as campus learning
mode. It also facilitates offline access.
 SAKSHAT (https://sakshat.ac.in/) is one
Stop Education Portal for addressing all the
education and learning related needs of
students, scholars, teachers and lifelong
learners. The portal provides the latest news,
press releases, achievements etc related to
Ministry of HRD.
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 Post-COVID Trends

▸ Student Attendance may slow down: Many parents may be reluctant to send back
their children to schools/colleges suddenly after the end of lockdown.
▸ National and International student mobility for higher study may be reduced.
▸ Educational institutions may run with different shifts per day.
▸ Blended learning may take the leading role. Blended learning combines both face to
face and online learning modes.
▸ Demand for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and online learning may grow.

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Conclusion

▸ This Presentation has outlined various impacts of Covid-19 on higher education in

India
▸ The recent pandemic created an opportunity for change in pedagogical approaches
and introduction of virtual education in all levels of education.
▸ All service providers need to be mobilized to provide proper access to the
educational service platforms to the disadvantaged groups of population also.
▸ The post Covid-19 education seems to be an education with widely accepted
online/virtual education which may perhaps be a parallel system of education.

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References

▸ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342277024_Impact_of_Covid-
19_on_higher_education_in_India
▸ Wikipedia. Covid-19 Pandemic in India. Retrieved on May 20, 2020 from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_India
▸ https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2020/06/02/impact-covid-19-tuition-
finance/?sh=4aaea13f4b88
▸ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1797/1/012065/pdf
▸ https://www.indialegallive.com/legal/covid-19-and-its-impact-on-education-system-
in-india/

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Thank you!