Author: Peter Ofori Atakorah (Department of Education, Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana), Emmanuel Honlah (Department of Social Sciences, Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana), Godwin Achem (Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana), Eric Frimpong (Department of Languages, Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana), Patrick Atta Poku Jnr (Department of Science, Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana)
Abstract: This article examined the economic effects of the coronavirus disease on college of education students based on their location in the lockdown and non-lockdown districts. A total of 198 students from the Seventh-day Adventist College of Education, Agona-Ashanti, Ghana, were selected using a simple random sampling. A questionnaire and semi-structured thematic guide were used for data collection. Quantitative data analysis was performed using IBM SPSS (version 25) while direct quotes from in-depth interviews were used to support quantitative data. The results show that students and parents mainly engaged in trading and farming as their main sources of income. The chi-square test of independence showed no statistically significant differences in the self-supporting livelihood activities pursued by students from lockdown and non-lockdown districts (P˃.05). It also showed no statistically significant differences in the effect of the pandemic on both parents’ and students’ livelihood activities based on their location (P˃.05). The economic consequences of the pandemic on students’ academic activities in both lockdown and non-lockdown districts were, thus, similar. It is recommended that the Ghanaian government’s measures to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic should not be limited to the lockdown districts but should be extended to all districts across the country.
Thank you the Head of Department of SDACOE for such an update… Infact you are doing a massive work and God bless you for the update on economic impact of Covid-19 on Seventh-Day Adventist College of Education Students and the matters that have affected Students positively and negatively…. #Mask up# Sanitize your ✋… Social distance… They have done a massive work to ensure the ways of observing Covid-19 protocols among students and lecturer’s… Long live Sdacoe… Long live Ghana
Infact the Covid-19 have really affected not only livelihood but also it has tremendously affected people’s work…. It has retard the productivity of Ghana’s development… As a student trainee is my desire that we can get the maximum time to learn and meet the target of the semester… Since the upbreak of Covid-19 the academic calendar have change and we teacher trainee’s wish not for that at all…. It has really limit the time for studies for each year batch and not only that it has really make the educational system slow, some of us even worry about that. With the above mentioned views raised… I hope as we move along the path of the universe created by God we will surely overcome as the motto of SDACOE states. Aaaa Covid-19 you have really destroy our important things, you have indeed retard the progress of developmental project in our schools, district and National levels…. In my district, market women and men are complaining of inflation of market goods and products due to Covid-19, driver’s and passengers are complaining of inflation of fuel and oil hmmmm , Teacher trainee’s and nurses are complaining of their arrears of their allowances, public sectors and private sectors are also complaining of unpaid salaries… We will overcome all this through HARDWORK, PESERVERANCE, LOYALTY TO MOTHER GHANA ETC….. let’s not forget to wear our nose mask, sanitize our hands, wash our hands under running water with soap, observe social distance and we are good to go. Long live SDACOE…. Long live Ghana