Impact of covid-19 on education and internships of hospitality students

Abstract

Introduction: As we all know COVID-19 pandemic became a problem all over the world. Every country is trying to fight with this pandemic virus, due to which many countries announced complete lockdown in their country. Schools/ colleges help in developing social skills and awareness of students which is interrupted because of lockdown due to COVID-19. Not only studies are affected but it has also affected the industrial training of the students. Hospitality students must have good communication skills, social values, teamwork and many more qualities .which are affected due to pandemic which can’t be learned through online classes. Many of the students were not able to attend online classes because of the poor network in their region, loss of focus and interest, some time does not get much space in their home for online studies due to more members in the family, sometimes they don’t have a system to excess online classes. Internships of Hospitality students were affected as their internship programmes were either reduced or cancelled due to this pandemic. Objectives: The primary objective of this research is to find out the impact of this pandemic on education and internships of hospitality students. Methods: This research paper has derived conclusions based on the feedback of different hospitality colleges situated in Deh-radun. The feedback was based on some questionnaires which were asked through an online survey. The feedback is collected on percentage bases which are then analyzed for getting results and conclusion. Results: According to the results 97% of hospitality students agreed that their Internship programmes are badly affected due to this pandemic and they face various problems during online classes.73% of students disagreed when asked will they prefer online mode of education even post this Pandemic.75% students agreed that they got full support from their teachers during online classes. Conclusion: Most of the students were facing various problems in their online classes, their internship programmes is effected, because of which their learning and skill development activities are effected but the good thing is that most of the student was getting full support from their teachers/colleges/ Universities and most of the students find the online mode of education as a better and useful tool for online studies during this pandemic. But still, most of the students prefer traditional (face to face) mode of education over the online mode of education.