EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF COLLEGE GOING STUDENTS OF SOUTH KASHMIR

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  • Mohd Arif Hussain Bhat Research Scholar School of Education,

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The present paper focusses on the educational problems of college going students of south Kashmir which they faced during the recent unrest in 2016. The study was conducted on 400 college going students from four districts of south Kashmir namely Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian and Pulwama. The students of BG Iand BG II Semester were the part of sample. 100 students were selected from each district. Out of which 50 were male and 50 were female.  The students were sampled by using random sampling technique. The data was collected from different degree colleges of these districts respectively. Respondents were selected from diverse socio- economic status. Self-constructed questionnaire developed by the researcher was used for knowing the responses of students towards their educational problems which they faced during the unrest. Data was analyzed by using percentage method. The findings were;

98% of the students were of the view that the recent turmoil has severely affected their studies.

93% of the students were afraid of even attending the classes on normal days during the unrest period.

83% of the students were of the view that because of the recent turmoil that education has become a burden on them.

89% of the students were of the view that they have not even attended 10% of the classes in the whole session and the educational loss they have suffered cannot be regained by them in future years.

90% of the male students and 88% of the female students were of the view that snatching of internet in the valley by Government officials was not a clever move as they suffered a lot and halted their education as well.

92% male students and 91% female students were of the view that it became utterly impossible for them during the turmoil to attend the classes.

97% male students and 98% female students were of the view that constant shutdowns, killings, cold blooded murders, bombings affected their studies badly.

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2017-07-31

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