Potential impact of COVID-19 outbreak on education, staff development and training in Africa

Abstract

The COVID‐19 pandemic begins in China in 2019 and because of the connections of China with the rest of the World in trade and businesses, the virus started to spread quickly around the World. This rapidly spread causes serious negative effects on education, small, medium, and large businesses, economic, health, food security, employment, traveling, environment, energy, market, even causes countries to take loans and their debt rises. The specific knowledge about COVID‐19 also affects education, which is a source of human capital formation. The data obtained from an online survey, covered from June 2020 to October 2020. The methods used are descriptive statistics, correlation, and multiple regression analysis. As the results generated, we confirmed that peoples’ perception about COVID‐19 pandemic increases with mandatory testing in schools. In addition, the results also revealed that the work from the home measure is an insignificant negative impact on perception. 10% increases in work from the home measure, decreases people’s perception by 0.0305%. The results also confirmed that the reopening of schools had significant negative impact on mandatory testing in schools.10% increases in the reopening of school, decrease the mandatory testing in schools by 0.071%. In this regard, the main aim of this research is to understand the role of the COVID‐19 pandemic on education, staff development, and training in Africa.