I.

INTRODUCTION

The Covid-19 pandemic has not only tremendously affected people’ lives,
particularly those of young generation on every aspect, but also reshape the state of
our world. Even before the crisis, young people’s lives were an ongoing challenge.
Now, life becomes harsher due to long- lasting and severe consequences from the
pandemic.

This paper presents results of the survey on opinions about most crucial post
Covid-19 issues to build back better. The survey aimed to capture the 3 most
important post Covid-19 issues on young generation in terms of physical health
and mental health; employment opportunities and quality of education which are
also at the core of our efforts to minimise the impacts and bring the normal and
even better life for young generation.

Therefore, the purpose of this research reported here was to determine the 3
most pressing issues post Covid-19, namely: physical health and mental health;
employment opportunities and quality of education in order to “build back better”
for young people. The impacts here are reported to be profound, massive and far-
reaching.

While there has not been a comprehensive survey on the most pressing issues
that Covid-19 pandemic has, this report hopes to both finding out and proposing
some ideas to build back better for young generation.

 Literature review:

 Raghu Krishnamoorthy and Keith Keating (2021) discussed  the dramatic

impact of COVID-19 on the education and employee readiness with an aim of
creating an optimum balance between the business and social workforce demands.
 Based on the survey report named “Youth and Covid-19” by the International
Labor Organization (2020) has drawn the conclusion there are 3 main heavily
affected areas, namely: employment, education and mental health. In response to
the pandemic, it is necessary for governments and civil society organizations to
take policy action.

II. METHOD

        1.  Participants

The inquiry has been executed with the participation of 61 third-year English-
major students who come from class TA47A1 and TA47A2 at the Diplomatic
Academy of Vietnam. These students are young generation who are directly
suffered from the huge impacts of Covid-19 pandemic.

         2. Materials

 There are a wide range of questions with a Google Form link, each of which
consists of from two to six options as the answers. Generally speaking, types of
questions include check-box, multiple-choice, open-ended, ranking, interval scale
and ratio scale ones. The final results from respondents have been converted into
the number or the percentage so that we can analyse as well as compare our
findings.

        3.  Procedure

Our team members have been using Google Form to generate our
questionnaire since May 4, 2023. They could share with us three issues that they
believe are most crucial to “build back better” for your generation post-Covid-19
by filling out this link. We received 61 participants three days later, and their
responses were recorded then being analysed. 

III. RESULTS

As can be witnessed from the illustration, 52,5% of participation was mostly

impacted by COVID-19. Whereas, it is evident that severely and moderately
affected students were 21,3% and 23 respectively. Those who were hardly or
slightly suffered from Covid-19 contributed by far the smallest percentage of all,
accounting for 1,6%.
 Looking at the graph, Covid-19 has mostly affected both education and
finance. Noticeably, the aspect of our life that was severely suffered from Covid-
19 pandemic was health. However, out of the five aspects, both health and
employment are moderately influenced. In all fields above, Covid-19 pandemic has
slightly impacted relationship.

Among the 9 issues mentioned, after the Covid-19 pandemic, impact on quality
and inclusive education and learning reached the highest point, with 70,5%.
Besides, the impact on psychosocial well being stood at the second place, with
63,8%. It can also be seen that we must be aware of this issue because the
percentage of reduced health-seeking behavior and access to essential health care
made up 55%.

According to the pie chart, participants considered physical health and mental
health as the most urgent issue to “build back better”, making up 60,7%. Likewise,
the proportion of employment opportunities was 16,4%, which was the second
largest figure among all categories. The two last figures of financial conditions
and social well-being were 6,6% and 3,3% respectively.

IV. DISCUSSION
 This research indicated that the three issues such as health, employment and
education were heavily affected. Based on these three affected aspects, we identify
three important issues to build back better post-Covid.

Comparison with literature:

This survey and the survey of Krishna all pointed out education is the most
urgent post Covid-19 issues. Concretely, Raghu Krishnamoorthy and Keith
Keating (2021) stated that education is a worthy of note. On the other hand, this
survey revealed that young people’s health was strikingly influenced by Covid-19,
thus giving a different perspective from the 2 previous studies. In comparison with
the survey report conducted by ILO, the results are similar about the 3 main fields
which are further emphasized in order to develop urgent initiative.

In particular, since the beginning of the crisis, one in six young people
(17.4%) had ceased working (ILO, 2020). Since the outbreak of the pandemic,
over three-quarters (72%) of young workers have reported working partially or
entirely from home. Furthermore, over 73% of the students questioned were
affected by the closing of schools, universities, and training facilities. Despite
efforts to preserve educational continuity , 66% reported learning less than they
used to. Furthermore, nearly one-tenth (9%) of the young pupils polled believed
their education or training will fail. In terms of metal well-being, the poll
discovered that one in every two young people is perhaps prone to anxiety or
depression, with over 17% likely afflicted. These collected data and figures also
seem to more clearly than this survey.
 Limitations of the research:

There are some flaws in our study that should be noted. The first one is that
currently the study is carried out on a relatively sheer scale because of time limits.
Therefore, the findings would be better to conduct further research focusing on a
variety of students from other university to find out more objective results.
Moreover, as of now, it is 3 years from the time Covid has spread, so the results
may be different and unlikely to reflect reality right as the Covid-19 pandemic
broke out.

Implications of the research:

This study makes a significant contribution to identifying the most urgent

issues that the young generation are heavily affected after Covid-19 pandemic.
Moreover, these findings may be useful in launching initiatives to build back better
to minimise the impacts of post Covid-19 on young people.