Student services and the pandemic: Retrospective and prospective

COVID-19 has challenged everyone. It has caused a lot of changes in all aspects of life – including education. The pandemic has brought education crisis which also affected student development and services - a very important facet and an integral part of the academic system. This paper aims to trace the students’ services prior the worldwide health crisis and its development aid and beyond the pandemic. In achieving this, a comprehensive review of different literature shall be done. This paper reveals that student services have been in the academic system even before the pandemic. It is something that has been in place and has been given. However, changes have been observed in the middle of the health crisis most especially that it arrives was so sudden that no one was prepared. The pandemic has affected student development and the offering of its services during the pandemic. Admittedly, it also has been adjusted for its future implementation