Reflecting the Mindset of Students' Pursuing Higher Education During Post-COVID-19 Lockdown Scenario in India: With Special Reference to West Bengal

Abstract

Lockdown, a term that gives nightmares to many these days but for many it is a major bliss. Apart from a section having earnings even during lockdown period and sections not having any earnings during the lockdown there is another particular section and probably one of the most important ones i.e. the present youth generation and our upcoming future generation which was also a part of this lockdown scenario. This study is based on the mind set of such upcoming future human resources of our society, with the objectives of analyzing the impact of online teaching on the students and to examine whether there exists any relation among the mindset regarding post lockdown scenario. For the study, we have used descriptive statistics and non-parametric test like Chi-square using SPSS package and our overall result denotes that there exists significant relationship among area, connectivity and online teaching availing by the students.

Keywords: Infectious diseases, Lockdown, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-16-13

Publication date:June 30th 2020

JEL: C12, I10, I23, Y10