make on note on schooling in panic carona year.
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Schools are shut, and students are stranded at home, with extremely limited contact with friends and virtually no physical activity, thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic raging across the world. IB, A Levels, ICSE, CBSE all known and recognized boards have postponed or cancelled examinations. Likewise, top colleges like MIT, 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 hangs in balance!
Clearly, there is panic all around and educators and students alike are confused as to next steps and continuity with respect to educational objectives.
In our opinion there are three major education problems that students and educators currently face due to the Covid-19 pandemic:
1. Students caught in the cross-wire
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These are those students who are caught in the limbo on account of education outcomes being withheld due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Some of them do not have a result because exams either did not happen or were left in the middle.
Many of them 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.
We believe that these students, while may face a degree of uncertainty with respect to future, are not facing a very difficult problem.
Recruiters or universities would, in all likelihood, extrapolate the final performance by extrapolating the continued performance through the year and base their decisions accordingly.
The only challenge is when they would start their next innings?
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Hence, they should patiently wait while staying in touch with their prospective universities.
Any clarity as to the decision-making process and entry factors would come as soon as the Covid-19 pandemic impact recedes and life returns to normalcy.
Be on the lookout for new information and make sure that you are able to position yourself very quickly in line with that so that you don’t lose out when things start to move.
2. Students one year away from school or college-leaving exams
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These students are in a bigger quandary because of the Covid-19 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 such as grades and marks, many of these students find themselves in a situation where they are unable to differentiate themselves and lack a cohesive framework to get themselves ready for the jobs and education tasks they face next.
We recommend that these students focus on building those CV-building activities which can be marketed well and position them in an affirmative manner.
Many schools, especially those which are outside India, and jobs anyways focus on a holistic profile. Students should therefore focus on those pieces which are aligned to their interests and strengths and through demonstrable projects showcase their skills in those areas.
A great platform to look for those projects is the idea and project library, ACadru Others can be found through your teachers and mentors.
3. Education disruption
All other students who are away from such outcome-dependent situations such as above also face severe education disruption.
In response to the Covid-19 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 disruption to their children’s education.
Again, while there are a ton of fantastic resources which are available, there are not too many resources which mimic the school that is, provide for multidisciplinary learning, encourage connections across different domains and inspire ideas which help a child develop 21st century skills and prepare themselves for the jobs of the future.
Have a look at mentored leaning tools which can help you navigate through such complex possibilities for your learning and seamlessly transition to a home-based, tech-enabled learning environment.
No doubt, that the Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed the biggest calamity that humanity has faced so far. We all are going through perhaps the most trying circumstances of our lives.
Education disruption impacts our readiness for the future and also has huge economic and lifestyle costs.
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