Global Higher Education During and Beyond COVID-19

This book offers insights into how higher educational institutions and educators have responded to the immense challenges of managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Written by global experts in the field of higher education, it offers a multidimensional overview of the digital transformation, governance, and social justice issues within higher education institutions during the pandemic. It provides theoretical insights and conceptual analysis of the emerging trends in global higher education, the challenges, and possible ways to address them to shape more sustainable, qualitative, and socially equitable higher education for future generations. The book appeals to academics and students engaged in the education community.

Auteur

C. Raj Kumar is the Founding Vice-Chancellor of the O.P. Jindal Global University and the Director of the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building. Professor Kumar is a Rhodes Scholar and an accomplished Legal Scholar. He works in the fields of human rights and development, comparative constitutional law, terrorism and national security, corruption and governance, law and disaster management, legal education and higher education. He has seven books and over hundred and fifty publications to his credit and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, law reviews in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Singapore, UK and the USA. Mousumi Mukherjee is Associate Professor and the Deputy Director at the International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building, O.P. Jindal Global University. She is also the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Comparative and Global Education. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow of the STAR scholars network with twenty years of experience in the higher education sector in India, the USA, Saudi Arabia and Australia. She is a Research Standing Committee Member of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies. She has authored several internationally peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the field of comparative and international education. She has served as a reviewer, guest editor and associate editor of internationally peer-reviewed journals. Tatiana Belousova is Assistant Professor at the Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA). In the year 2019, She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Kerala, Department of Political Science. Her doctoral thesis titled 'State, Public Policy and Internationalization of Higher Education in Kerala' was sponsored by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR). Prior to this, Tatiana completed her postgraduate studies at St. Petersburg State University, Department of World Economy. Dr. Belousova participated in several research and capacity building programmes, including the ones in New Delhi, Hamburg and Melbourne. Tatiana has been a regular contributor to the University World News and The Hindu. Nisha Nair is Assistant Professor of English and Assistant Dean at the Office of Academic Affairs, at Jindal Global Law School. She is Assistant Director at the Centre for Law and Humanities and is Founding Faculty Coordinator for the Gender Studies Group. She is also Fellow at International Institute for Higher Education Research and Capacity Building (IIHEd) at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU). Her doctoral research focussed on educational policy, quality and employability in the context of Indian Higher Education. She has authored and edited books, chapters and journal articles on gender, educational technology, policy, quality and employability.

Contenu

Introduction

Section 1- Institutional Responses to the Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic

1. Co-Creating a Post-Pandemic World, Amit Dasgupta

2. One Pandemic, but Many National Higher Education Responses, Simon Marginson

3. Transforming the Asian University in Troubled Times, Rocky S. Tuan

4. One Size does not Fit All: Higher Education Challenges in a Post-COVID world, Colin Picker

5. Agility and Transformation: The University in the Age of the COVID 19 Pandemic, Mohamed Lachemi & Anver Saloojee

6. Rethinking Performance Metrics in Higher Education in a Crisis: The Case of University Rankings During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Anamika Srivastava

Section 2- The Current Scenario and Future Trajectories of Internationalization post- Pandemic

1. Challenges to Internationalization in Education and Research During and After the Pandemic, Ratna Ghosh

   2. Towards the Need to Re-Conceptualise Internationalisation and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Lessons From the Pandemic, Francisco J. Marmalejo

2. The Impact of COVID-19 on the Internationalisation of Higher Education, Revolutionary or Not?, Philip Albach and Hans de Wit

   4. Is the Future of Education Tied to the Fate of Globalization?, Mohan Kumar

3. Assemblage Theory for Future Global Internationalization, Thomas Mical

Section 3- Digital Transformation of Global Higher Education: New Opportunities and Challenges

1. What Covid-19 Taught Us About the Opportunities-and Obligations-of Remote Learning, Marvin Krislov

2. Class Dismissed: Teaching and Learning During the 2020 Pandemic, Rekha Datta

   3. Universities and Edtech Companies: Friends or Foes?, Jeremy Wade

3. Digital Transformation of Higher Education Through Online Teaching and Learning- The Process of Transition and Omission, Kathleen A. Modrowski

Section 4- Discourse on Governance in Public vs. Private Higher Education Institutions

1. Governing the 'Commons': Embeddedness, Autonomy, and the Public University in India, Manisha Priyam

2. Funding of Higher Education in Pursuit of Excellence: Challenges before Public and Private Funded Universities, Saumen Chattopadhyay

3. Paying for Higher Education in India, Shyam Sunder

Section 5- Social Justice and Responsibility of Higher Education: A Critical Analysis

1. Rethinking Diversity and Inclusion in the Wake of COVID-19, Georges Yahchouchi

2. A Research Ecosystem: Social Justice in Doctoral Education: Why Doctoral Education is a Place to be Committed to Social Justice, Maresi Nerad

3. Research & University Social Responsibility: During and Beyond COVID-19, Mousumi Mukherjee

4. Navigating the Labyrinths: Women in Higher Education in times of Pandemic, Nisha Nair

Section 6- The Role of University in Enhancing Entrepreneurship & Employment Opportunities

1. An Argument to Making Entrepreneurship Central to University Curricula, Uttam Gaulee

2. Higher Education in a post-COVID World -- Employment, Entrepreneurship and Socio-Economic Mobility, Rajesh Chakrabarti

   3. What is the Role of the University Entrepreneurship Center and How does Entrepreneurship Education Adapt to a Post-COVID-19 World?, Ronita Choudhuri