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SEMESTER 1, 2021/22
OUTLINE

Article Analysis for Report Writing

Section: 504

Lecturer: FOZIAH BINTI RAHMAN

Team Members 1. MUHAMMAD SYAMIM HILMI BIN

ISKANDAR (1811553)
2. MUHAMMAD FAEZ SYAZWAN BIN
MOHAMAD NORAZAN (1822457)
3. MUHAMMAD ARIF FIKRY BIN MOHD FISOL
(1827003)

Topic/Theme Health and Education

Introduction

Title Challenges and Opportunities for Higher

Education amid the COVID - 19 Pandemic:
The Philippine Context
Author Cathy Mae Toquero

Year 2020

Topic Educational Situation in Pandemic

Issues The educational aspects have been really

effected when this pandemic COVID-19
happen especially in the higher education.

Body Paragraph(s)

Main Idea(s) (1) Recommendations for higher education.

•Integrate Environment and Health Courses
in the Curriculum.
•Strengthen Environmental Policies and
Hygiene Practices.
•Incorporate an Online Mental Health and
Medical Services.
•Migrate Courses, Align Curriculum
 Competencies, and Scale up Teachers’
Training for Online Learning Instruction.
•Strengthen Research Efforts, Data
Monitoring, and Evidence-Based Practices.

(2) The awareness of student’s mental health

during pandemic.

(3) Awareness on hygiene practice

•Taught student about hygiene to avoid
students from getting any diseases.

(4)Making changes on teaching style that can

suit the pandemic situation.
Supporting Details (1)
1. The integration of basic environmental and
health courses should be easy for all course of
student to access and not just to science-
related majors since everybody deals with the
same environmental and health problems.

2. The COVID-19 pandemic causes all school

and university closed globally, so,
environmental hygiene should be a priority in
schools to prevent the transmission and
outbreak of infectious diseases (Lee et al.,
2003) in the future.

3. Mental health is an important issue that

need to be concern by university authorities
due to the increasing number of mental
disorders among college students. (Blanco et
al., 2008; Dalky & Gharaibeh, 2018;
Hinderaker, 2013; Hunt & Eisenberg, 2010;
Pedrelli, Nyer, Yeung, Zulauf, & Wilens,
2015).

4. -Due to online learning causes barriers to

the interaction between the teachers and
students in terms of planning, implementing,
and assessing the students.
-It also provide the teachers with adequate
training courses can assist them to effectively
implement the courses through electronic
delivery.
5. -The people demand evidence from
institutions to support the claims of
 excellence and effectiveness.
-During pandemic COVID-19, there are
changes occurred globally and it is the time
that educational systems should function by
giving the great evidence by determine how
higher education institutions should respond
to the educational, economic, and
employment crises.

(2) The awareness can be shown by

providing medical counseling, mental health
teleconferencing and others from the experts.

(3) The awareness of hygiene among student

can be embedded by give them the health
management tools that can let them practice
protocols until good hygiene becomes a part
of students' daily basis.

(4)
● There are various innovative tools that
can help the instructors and teachers
to execute online learning that can
fulfill all students' needs.
● The technology devices, design of the
program, choices of instructors,
responsive curriculum, and supportive
stakeholders are necessary and
significant for the successful delivery
of the lessons in an online
environment (Barr & Miller, 2013).
Purpose To explain on how higher education is
affected with covid and recommendations for
educational system
Tone Informative

Intended Audience Higher education institution

Conclusion

Overall analysis This article is:

1. The points are direct and easy to
understand.
2. Full with explanation for each point
3. The structure of the article is well
organized.
4. This research is still new and need a
lot of examples and evidences.
Drawing Conclusion / 1. The author mentioned that this
Justification of opinion pandemic can make change in
educational system.
2. Making change in educational system
is important to suit for any situation
happened.
3. Higher education must grab the
opportunity to improve their system.