Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic explores how higher education institutions and systems around the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, managed transition to online learning, and adjusted to the new post-COVID reality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: COVID-19 Pandemic and Higher Education / Fulufhelo Netswera, Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis and Tatiana Karabchuk -- PART 1: Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education in the Time of Global Pandemic -- 1 Responses to COVID-19 Challenges in Higher Education in Oman: Emerging Practices in Online Learning / Sulaiman M. Al-Balushi, Mahmoud M. Emam and Misida A. Al-Jahwari -- 2 Ethiopian Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities, Challenges and Lessons / Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis and Abebaw Yirga Adamu -- 3 Higher Education Reforms in Ukraine during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Tymofii Brik, Iryna Kogut and Natalia Shapoval -- 4 Higher Education Challenges under COVID-19 Pandemic in the Maldives / Aishath Shehenaz Adam, Aishath Shaheen Ismail, Hussain Haleem, Raheema Abdul Raheem, Aminath Riyaz, Fathmath Nishan, Shimna Shakeeb, Sheeza Ali, Aishath Naila, Mariyam Fizana Rasheed, Nadhiya Ahmed, Hawwa Shiuna Musthafa, Asim Abdul Sattar, Fazeel Najeeb and Mohamed Shareef -- 5 Australia’s Higher Education Sector in the Eye of the COVID-19 Storm: Examining the Impacts, Responses, and Implications / Ran Wei and Victor Gekara -- 6 Internationalisation of Higher Education in Japan and the COVID-19 Pandemic / Elena Shadrina -- PART 2: Management of Higher Education under the Crisis of COVID-19 -- 7 Germany: Higher Education Governance during COVID-19 and Beyond / Barbara M. Kehm -- 8 Managing the First Wave: Selected Caribbean Higher Education Institutions’ Responses to COVID-19 / Joyanne De Four-Babb, Talia Esnard, Laurette Bristol, Theresa Coye, Lisa Ibrahim-Joseph and Lisa Perez -- 9 Adaptation, Collaboration, Contention: Colombian Higher Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic / Iván F. Pacheco and Daniel Toro González -- 10 Management of Higher Education under the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Arab Emirates / Tatiana Karabchuk and Aizhan Shomotova -- PART 3: Governance of Higher Education during the Pandemic -- 11 Management and Government Policies in Higher Education during the Transition to Online Learning in Kazakhstan under the COVID-19 Pandemic / Aizhan Shomotova and Tatiana Karabchuk -- 12 Higher Education in Nepal during COVID-19: Prospects and Challenges / Uddhab Pyakurel, Pransu Khakurel and Aishwarya Rani Singh -- 13 Higher Education-Government Relations: The Korean Case of Private Higher Education during COVID-19 and Beyond / Edward Choi and Shin-young Kang -- 14 The Impact of COVID-19 on the Governance of Turkish Higher Education / Hakan Ergin -- 15 Indonesian Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Acceleration of Reforms and Persistent Problems / Agustian Sutrisno -- 16 Making Sense of the Role of the State in Managing the South African Higher Education Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Times / Fulufhelo Netswera and Sibusiso Moyo -- PART 3: Financial Challenges for Public and Private Higher Education Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 17 COVID-19 and Finnish Universities: A Flexible Policy Response / Jussi Kivistö and Vuokko Kohtamäki -- 18 How Money and Markets Are Driving the U.S. Response to COVID-19: Do Not Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste / Kristin Bailey Wilson, Regina L. Garza Mitchell and Daniel T. Vainner -- 19 COVID-19 Crisis and Higher Education in India: A Paradigm Shift / Raosaheb Bawaskar and Koyel Basu -- 20 Brazilian Public Higher Education and COVID-19: Extension/Outreach Initiatives as a Means for Universities to Respond to This Social Crisis / Fernanda Leal, Kelber Tozini, Cláudia Schiedeck Soares de Souza and Bernardo Sfredo Miorando -- 21 Argentinian International Higher Education under COVID-19 / Daniela Perrotta -- 22 The Resilience of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration through COVID-19 and Related Challenges / Samuel Kwaku Bonsu, Kenneth Ofori-Boateng and Nana Afua Kumiwaa Asante -- Index.

COVID-19 caused massive disruptions in the higher education sector across the world. The transition to online learning exposed the deep-rooted inequalities between countries, systems, institutions, and student groups in terms of the availability of information technology infrastructure, internet access and digital literacy, as well as prior training and experiences of faculty in online education. This volume explores various aspects of the impact of the pandemic on higher education management including how university administration responded to the crisis, and the role of local and national government agencies in academic support and higher education delivery. The key findings highlight the importance of better organisation and preparedness of higher education systems for future crises, and the need for a better dialogue between governments, higher education institutions and other stakeholders. The book calls for a collective response to address the digital divide among various groups and financial inequalities within and between the private and public universities, and to plan for the serious challenges that international students face during crisis situations.

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