Author: Himalaya Post

– Durgaprasad Bhandari Higher education with investment in global research and student collaboration, critical for countries economic and social growth is badly affected in this pandemic. The Universities are closely monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education around the world. It is hard to know when life will return to normal once this phase is over. It triggers the discussion on the implication of COVID-19 to the higher education sector in the internationalization agenda in particular. This opens the debate that exists between the two lines: The impact of COVID-19 will only be temporary?  Or COVID -19 pandemic crisis will change higher education and internationalization forever? These differed opinions in one way express a sense of anxiety, fear, uncertainty, and loss while in another way express hope, excitement, and possibilities. These two different perspective and illusion on the same phenomenon possibly depends on how we define internationalization and mobility. There are many aspects of the internationalization of higher education. Its purpose can be academic, sociocultural, diplomatic, and fiscal. But until now the internationalization of higher education has been regarded mostly as global mobility rather than a means of connectivity through online research, teaching, and learning. Prevailed policies, existing curriculum, and practices in higher education failed to integrate students’ diverse international and intercultural experiences at home. For the conceivable future, if internationalization is to remain a crucial feature of...

-Piyush Gautam As a common buzzword ‘stress’ is taking its height for use and misuse, to address any of the situations an ordinary person’s faces. Stress is just looked at its dark side regardless of its antidote for careless, negligence, and procrastination. Stress is understood as the “non-specific response produced by one’s body to any demand for change”, with reference to the founder of ‘stress theory’ Hans Selye. There are two sides of stress one is eu-stress; the mild level of stress which acts as the booster dose on accomplishing a task with less error and time-bound, next is distress; it’s the level that had begun to impact the person emotionally, behaviorally, and cognitively in other than normal ways. Stress from psychological specks; is always the misbalance between one’s ability and the demand of the environment So on the foreground of knowledge of stress the ‘stress at work place’ can be defined as the abnormal emotional and physical reaction commenced due to the conflict between personnel’s capacity and performance demand. Stressors at the workplace may vary from personal to organizational. The work environment is always demanding to personnel’s and the feeling of stress is majorly a subjective matter. It must be a matter of concern when the degree rises to employees’ overall harm and descending productivity for the organization. Most importantly this stress is alarming in developing countries like...