Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Fulufhelo Netswera, DPhil (2005), Stellenbosch University is Professor of Development and Executive Dean Management Sciences at the Durban University of Technology. He writes on higher education management and policy, public governance, and philanthropy. He has a keen interest in the social justice role that higher education institutions.Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis, PhD (2020), Boston College is a research associate at the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Boston College. His main areas of scholarship include higher education partnerships, internationalisation of higher education, higher education and development, scientific diaspora engagement, and policy and governance in higher education.Tatiana Karabchuk is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology, Department of Government and Society, CHSS, UAE University. Research interests include cross-national comparative surveys, higher education research, labor market studies, youth studies, family and fertility, values and gender equality attitudes, happiness and subjective well-being, post-Soviet countries, Gulf countries, Europe, and Central Asian countries.

• List of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: COVID-19 Pandemic and Higher EducationFulufhelo Netswera, Ayenachew A. Woldegiyorgis and Tatiana KarabchukPART 1: Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education in the Time of Global Pandemic1 Responses to COVID-19 Challenges in Higher Education in Oman: Emerging Practices in Online LearningSulaiman M. Al-Balushi, Mahmoud M. Emam and Misida A. Al-Jahwari2 Ethiopian Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Opportunities, Challenges and LessonsAyenachew A. Woldegiyorgis and Abebaw Yirga Adamu3 Higher Education Reforms in Ukraine during the COVID-19 PandemicTymofii Brik, Iryna Kogut and Natalia Shapoval4 Higher Education Challenges under COVID-19 Pandemic in the MaldivesAishath 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 Shareef5 Australia’s Higher Education Sector in the Eye of the COVID-19 Storm: Examining the Impacts, Responses, and ImplicationsRan Wei and Victor Gekara6 Internationalisation of Higher Education in Japan and the COVID-19 PandemicElena ShadrinaPART 2: Management of Higher Education under the Crisis of COVID-197 Germany: Higher Education Governance during COVID-19 and BeyondBarbara M. Kehm8 Managing the First Wave: Selected Caribbean Higher Education Institutions’ Responses to COVID-19Joyanne De Four-Babb, Talia Esnard, Laurette Bristol, Theresa Coye, Lisa Ibrahim-Joseph and Lisa Perez9 Adaptation, Collaboration, Contention: Colombian Higher Education Response to the COVID-19 PandemicIván F. Pacheco and Daniel Toro González10 Management of Higher Education under the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Arab EmiratesTatiana Karabchuk and Aizhan ShomotovaPART 3: Governance of Higher Education during the Pandemic11 Management and Government Policies in Higher Education during the Transition to Online Learning in Kazakhstan under the COVID-19 PandemicAizhan Shomotova and Tatiana Karabchuk12 Higher Education in Nepal during COVID-19: Prospects and ChallengesUddhab Pyakurel, Pransu Khakurel and Aishwarya Rani Singh13 Higher Education-Government Relations: The Korean Case of Private Higher Education during COVID-19 and BeyondEdward Choi and Shin-young Kang14 The Impact of COVID-19 on the Governance of Turkish Higher EducationHakan Ergin15 Indonesian Higher Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Acceleration of Reforms and Persistent ProblemsAgustian Sutrisno16 Making Sense of the Role of the State in Managing the South African Higher Education Sector during the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis TimesFulufhelo Netswera and Sibusiso MoyoPART 3: Financial Challenges for Public and Private Higher Education Institutions during the COVID-19 Pandemic17 COVID-19 and Finnish Universities: A Flexible Policy ResponseJussi Kivistö and Vuokko Kohtamäki18 How Money and Markets Are Driving the U.S. Response to COVID-19: Do Not Let a Good Crisis Go to WasteKristin Bailey Wilson, Regina L. Garza Mitchell and Daniel T. Vainner19 COVID-19 Crisis and Higher Education in India: A Paradigm ShiftRaosaheb Bawaskar and Koyel Basu20 Brazilian Public Higher Education and COVID-19: Extension/Outreach Initiatives as a Means for Universities to Respond to This Social CrisisFernanda Leal, Kelber Tozini, Cláudia Schiedeck Soares de Souza and Bernardo Sfredo Miorando21 Argentinian International Higher Education under COVID-19Daniela Perrotta22 The Resilience of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration through COVID-19 and Related ChallengesSamuel Kwaku Bonsu, Kenneth Ofori-Boateng and Nana Afua Kumiwaa AsanteIndex