COVID-19 and Challenges of Higher Education in India

Abstract

Corona disease has been identified as the most widespread contagious disease in the World, which appeared in the second half of the year 2019. It started from Wuhan, which is the capital city of Hubei province in China and reached almost every corner of the world. It has various impacts not only on physical and mental health but on the economy, education and social life of the individual throughout the world. After the outbreak of the pandemic, higher education has been significantly disrupted as millions of students around the world are now studying remotely as campuses shut down in an attempt to help contain the virus in their respective areas or zones. It has posed various challenges and also provided several opportunities for higher education in India and abroad. This paper tries to speculate the problems of higher education in India after COVID-19.