The new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread swiftly globally. People were in danger of infection and psychological stress as a result of the pandemic. Due to the shutdown of schools, the academic calendars of educational institutions were thrown off. The effects of COVID-19 on the academic performance and psychological well-being of…

Purpose: The study investigates the moderating effect of personal resources, including optimism and resilience, on the link between fear of COVID-19 and perceptions of academic safety among university students in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 618 students took part in the research by completing an online self-reported…

Purpose: Students' career choices and programmes of study are perceived to influence student understanding of many courses. Yet, research attention is limited on entrepreneurship education that is a panacea for unemployment. Thus, this paper aims to assess the influence of students' career interests on students' comprehension of the…

The COVID-19 pandemic posed significant disruptions in traditional educational policies and practices worldwide. The study adopted an equity, diversity, and inclusion lens to investigate the impact of the pandemic on international students in a Canadian university. The findings from data analysis identified challenges and supports for…

Since the upsurge of online learning in higher educational institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to explore students' active involvement, their challenges encountered, and how these challenges were resolved in the online environment. Using semi-structured interviews, we thus explored the online experiences of 17 Students With…

The advent of COVID-19 changed how education is carried out at the tertiary level in Ghana. Despite the lunch of emergency remote teaching at the University of Ghana in 2020, little research has been done on students' experiences. Using a qualitative descriptive design, this study explored students' experiences regarding the benefits, challenges,…

Given that the educational sector was particularly hard hit in most countries around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, the study employs an extended UTAUT2 to investigate student use and satisfaction with e-learning in a developing country setting. We employed partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) on 616 data…

This paper reported how students used the virtual streaming technology and considered their satisfaction and preferences-related to video conferencing during COVID-19 lockdown. A case study was selected for an exploratory mixed methods design to explore students' (n=89) lived experiences of the video conferencing facility during the COVID-19…

With the kind of interruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many higher institutions, including the University of Ghana, swiftly shifted their engagements online which might have come with its setbacks. In view of that, this phenomenographic design study sought to investigate and document the qualitatively different perspectives of thirteen…

The COVID-19 outbreak had far-reaching consequences, severely impacting various sectors of society, including higher education institutions (HEIs). This study explored the resilience of Ghana's higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic by examining the challenges faced, strategies adopted by institutions, and the factors that…

The unruly consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak have hamstrung higher education institutions. This study aims to investigate the perceived impact of COVID-19 on student learning and academic performance through a qualitative approach. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 30 purposively chosen informants were used. The results indicated that…

The dominant mode of instructional delivery in Ghanaian Colleges of Education has been the conventional face-to-face. However, the second semester of the 2019/2020 academic year teaching had to be done via an emergency remote online teaching mode due to the novel COVID-19 pandemic. In a cross-sectional survey, the online mathematics learning…

This is a qualitative study that employed exploratory design to inquire from 15 participants of Central University (Ghana) about their experience with the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana. An in-depth interview was conducted, and data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings indicate that participants experienced fear expressed in four key…

The spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused disruptions in the academic calendars of educational institutions. Globally, countries temporarily closed their schools as a measure to curb the spread of the virus. Students resorted to online lectures to continue their education. This article examined the challenges faced by…

This report presents the results of an evaluation of the Partnership in Enhanced and Blended Learning West Africa Programme (PEBL-WA). The programme was implemented by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) working in partnership with Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL), The National…