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COVID-19 has stormed the global economy and all the victim sectors got sloping down the curve. Companies aiming at cost-cutting and the jobs of employees are on stake. India is a developing country wherein the number of entrepreneurs and startups is increasing but the figure for unemployment and business start-ups is not satisfactory. The major scope of entrepreneurship in India lies among the youths of our country as 65% (approximately) of the total population belongs to this category. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the intentions of the youth of our country to take corrective actions to foster more entrepreneurship in India. This study aims at finding whether COVID-19 affected the intentions of youth for becoming an entrepreneur. A non-probabilistic (convenience) sampling technique adopted; the sample size was of 181(response rate of 90.5%) students of higher education system. 26 items self-designed and the self-structured questionnaire was used for data collection. One way analysis of variance and independent t-test were used to test the hypothesis. All the demographic differences except age and course level were found significant for the level of entrepreneurial intentions among the youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Covid-19 outbreak has affected the world in various manner, which has not been experienced by the world earlier. Primarily it affects the health of people but along with this, livelihood of people, economy of nations, employment status in the country and education sector has also been affected by this pandemic. There is no such sector which remains untouched from the effect of COVID-19 outbreak. The whole world is facing numerous challenges due to these situations. A big section of students has also got affected by this but as the change is persistent; there are different strategies for different level of students. Education institutions are using different strategies for their students like there is different approach for primary students, secondary education students and higher education students. This paper assesses the student satisfaction towards the virtual learning approaches provided by their very institute or university. A sample of 202 students of different universities gathered through the Purposive Sampling, which has been provided the basis of analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]