Tilak Jandhyala B G, Kumar Amruth G
Council for Social Development (Formerly with National University of Educational Planning & Administration), New Delhi, India.
Central University of Kerala, Kasaragod, India.
High Educ Policy. 2022;35(3):610-628. doi: 10.1057/s41307-022-00266-0. Epub 2022 Mar 18.
Universities around the world are facing unprecedented challenges as a result of the corona virus. There has been global devastation of the entire education sector with long-term closure of schools. The health crisis and the accompanying education crisis continue, and the end of the crisis is not certain. The immediate response everywhere to the outbreak of the virus was closure of university campuses, disrupting almost all academic activities everywhere. After the immediate reaction, as a short-term response, universities began offering some core programmes in education and research by adopting digital technology. While some feel that online methods have improved overall access, many argue that they exacerbate existing inequalities in access to higher education and research among several groups of population. As the global health emergency is still continuing, it is widely noted that we need to develop, after initial immediate responses, short-term, medium- and long-term plans for developing robust higher education and research systems that contribute to knowledge development, reducing inequalities, and which can face future uncertain emergencies. The paper reviews some of the important developments that have taken place, and different perspectives that are emerging on the responses needed for the transformation of higher education in the post-COVID era.
由于新冠病毒，世界各地的大学正面临前所未有的挑战。整个教育部门遭受了全球性破坏，学校长期关闭。健康危机以及随之而来的教育危机仍在持续，危机何时结束尚不确定。各地对病毒爆发的即时反应是关闭大学校园，几乎扰乱了各地的所有学术活动。在即时反应之后，作为短期应对措施，大学开始通过采用数字技术提供一些教育和研究核心课程。虽然有些人认为在线方法改善了总体获取机会，但许多人认为它们加剧了不同人群在高等教育和研究获取方面现有的不平等。由于全球卫生紧急情况仍在持续，人们普遍指出，在最初的即时反应之后，我们需要制定短期、中期和长期计划，以发展强大的高等教育和研究系统，促进知识发展、减少不平等，并能够应对未来不确定的紧急情况。本文回顾了已经发生的一些重要进展，以及在后新冠时代高等教育转型所需应对措施方面正在出现的不同观点。
