The transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global higher education systems
https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2021-1-2-28-43
Abstract
The article deals with the long-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for higher educational institutions in different countries. The lack of information and verified data relative to the impact of the pandemic on changes in the education systems in different countries, the topic is still poorly learned, and therefore, it is difficult to predict what transformation processes will occur in the near future. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed many challenges for higher education in terms of teaching, learning, research collaboration and institutional governance. At the same time, the pandemic has provided an excellent opportunity for various stakeholders to rethink and even reschedule higher education process with an effective risk management plan for future resilience. The crisis made it possible to reconsider the role of informational and communicational technologies (ICT) and analyze the effectiveness of online learning in higher education. The article attempts to systematize the information available in open sources and assess the impact of the pandemic on such aspects of higher education as problems connected with technical facilities provision, accessibility for different social groups, digitalization and international academic mobility. Methods of systemic and comparative analysis based on international research and online surveys were used. Recommendations are proposed for studying the impact of global politics and geopolitical factors on the future of international higher education.
About the Author
V. Yu. Ledeneva
Institute for Demographic Research of the Federal Research Sociological Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
V. Yu. Ledeneva, Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor, Chief Researcher - Head of the Department
6, Fotyevoi str., Moscow, 119333
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Ledeneva V.Yu. The transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global higher education systems. Russia & World: Sc. Dialogue. 2021;1(2):28-43. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.53658/RW2021-1-2-28-43
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