International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume IV, Issue X, October 2020 | ISSN 2454–6186

Managing the Impact of Covid-19 on Education System

Iwowari Beatrice Dute
Department of English and Literary Studies, Niger-Delta University

ABSTRACT
This study empirically ascertained the impact of COVID-19 on education and recommended initiatives that could be adopted in managing the impact. Four null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted a survey design. Self-prepared questionnaires were administered to 120 respondents that comprised of educators, students, parents and policy makers selected from different States in Nigeria. The questionnaires were administered online using online survey platform. Also, secondary data were generated from newspapers, journals, media and reports. From the collected data, multiple regression analysis was adopted in testing the null hypotheses using SPSS. From the results, all the null hypotheses were rejected except null hypothesis four. Thus, this paper recommends online learning as the best initiative in managing the impact of COVID-19 on education system in Nigeria.

Keywords: COVID-19, Education system, E-learning, Nigeria.

INTRODUCTION

History has it that there have been several outbreaks that affected the world at several times and in many ways but the corona virus appears to be of a more adverse effect on both developed and under developed nations of the world. Its effect on the world has been felt across all sectors causing a decline in economies of nations all over the world. Zhong, Luo, Li, Zhang, Liu and Li (2020) had it that the corona virus disease (COVID-19) is an infection resulting from a novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). He added that an infection for example, the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) known in 2002 and 2012 in that order were as a result of viruses analogous to SARS-CoV-2. Nevertheless, SARS-CoV-2 has a higher range more the earlier information related to viruses and as a result the obscurity in the cure and management of COVID-19 (Zhong et al., 2020).The author also stated that therapeutic diagnosis and findings have shown that people tainted with COVID-19 can be symptomatic or asymptomatic in the premature stages of the virus depending on each person immune system. And that the signs of the infection contain dry cough, fever and tiredness, shortness of breath, headache and general body weakness owed to the incentive of supplementary pains in the body.
The disease was observed to move from persons to persons through hand touch, inhaling the same air of a victim of the disease etc. making it highly contagious and it did spread rapidly across the globe leading to the deaths of thousands of lives and a halt in economic operations. With no foreseeable antidote and prescribed treatment to the virus, measures were taken to curtail the spread of the virus of which included the use of the initiative termed “Lock Down”. This approach was initiated to minimize the spread of the virus through human to human contact thereby restricting the movement of humans either on air, land or water.