Promotion acceleration is an award from government to employess as a reward for their good work performance. Employess, especially lecturer and staff in Engineering Faculty of Universitas Negeri Semarang get promotion acceleration on time. The demographic factors that influence of promotion acceleration are age, gender and education. The purpose of the study was develop an understanding of the personal factors to promote the adoption of acceleration. The methodologist is used quantitative by coding and tabulating quisionare which interpreted in graphics and tables. The results of this research that there are still lecturers in range of age 39-54 is class III/a while the minimum lecturer promotion with magister education in class III/b. Staff with a age of 31-50 as many as 10 people are in group II/a. The influence of gender on promotion is that more lecturers with male gender are in the high class, namely IV/d and IV/e. The results of interviews with respondents the promotion process are hampered because of the lack of credit figures that must be achieved by employees.

In the era of Covid-19 and the implementation of the new normal, schools have a difficult task because schools not only strive to continuously improve students’ academic abilities but must follow the basic principles of always keeping students, teachers and other staffs healthy and safe when they are at school. At the same time they must participate in helping the government in stopping the spread of the Covid-19. This study aims to describe the implementation of ventilation, duration and distance at schools; Educational Information Communication/EIC media; availability of Personal Protective Equipment/PPE; the availability of Covid-19 prevention facilities; and the level of knowledge of school staff and students regarding the prevention and handling of Covid-19 at schools. This study uses a qualitative descriptive research design. From the results of the study, it can be seen that school staff and students have a good level of knowledge regarding the management of prevention and handling of Covid-19 at schools and schools have implemented ventilation standards, duration, distance well too. However, the availability of EIC media, PPE and the availability of Covid-19 prevention facilities in schools are not in accordance with the expected standard.

The government's efforts to prevent the acceleration of the transmission of the Covid-19 virus have an impact on the world of education. The government imposes restrictions on activities, including in the world of education, namely the policy of implementing a distance learning system from elementary school to higher education. Distance learning that is applied especially in universities is an online learning system (in a network). In this research, the method used is the literature study method. Literature study is an activity to find references related to methods of reading, taking notes, collecting data, and processing research materials sourced from journals, journal reviews, books, articles and the internet. This literature study method has the final result, namely knowing the factors that affect the effectiveness of online lectures during the covid-19 pandemic. The results of this study are to find several factors that affect the effectiveness of online learning/lectures (on the network), which can be grouped as follows: (1) Educators include digital, creative, and innovative literacy; (2) Learners include motivation and independence; (3) Facilities and infrastructure; (4) The role of institutions.

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