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Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

This research examines the impacts of immediate emergency policies of the Corona Virus pandemic on the education process at Minya University; Egypt; along with impacts on economic labor productivity. It hypothesizes that academic performance of graduates during the pandemic declined, including impacts on employment, quality of labor, and economic productivity.The research reviews experiences of Malaysia, KSA, Kuwait, and Egypt in managing the education process during the pandemic. Two questionnaires were used, to analyze students’ satisfaction with the experience of distant teaching/learning, and to analyze workers’ satisfaction with the efficiency of economic labor productivity during the pandemic. SPSS Non parametric tests: one sample - Jonckheere, for K Samples-Regression, ordinal was used to analyze the questionnaires; to measure satisfaction with variables, identify trends in differences, and predict the factors affecting them. The research found that: satisfaction with academic performance during the pandemic, and the efficiency of graduates’ work performance, were associated with the non-emergency conditions of permanent work and its practice in the workplace at a specific time. Hence, this research results contradict with a part of the hypothesis related to the declined academic performance and efficiency of graduates during the pandemic; but agreed with other part of the hypothesis related to qualifying workers and enhancing economic labor productivity. Showing that emergency procedures accompanying the pandemic were unsustainable solutions and not suitable for the rehabilitation of economic labor productivity for any other emergency conditions.

Keywords

Corona pandemic - emergency policies - academic performance - business performance efficiency

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