scholarly journals Leading Learning During a Time of Crisis. Higher Education Responses to the Global Pandemic of 2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-41
Author(s):  
Fernando M. Reimers ◽  
Francisco Marmolejo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThe rapid disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in multiple sectors and areas of daily life provide a unique opportunity to study the university’s capacity to respond to changes in the external environment, to be a learning organization, in service of addressing significant social challenges. In this book we study universities’ responses to one such challenge: the disruption to educational opportunities caused by the interruption of schooling brought about by the pandemic.In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, universities innovated on several fronts. Unsurprisingly, some of those innovations focused on internal actions implemented to mitigate the impact of the pandemic by transitioning to online teaching delivery or extension of semester break, etc. (Crawford J et al. J Appl Learning Teaching 3.1:1–20, 2020; Leon-Garcia F, Cherbowski-Lask A, Leadership responses to COVID 19: a global survey of college and university leadership. International Association of Universities – Santander Universities. IAUP. https://www.iaup.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IAUP-Santander_Survey_to_COVID-19_Report2020.pdf, 2020). Beyond the solutions to mitigate the pandemic’s impact on their communities of students, faculty, or staff, universities also innovated to mitigate such impact on the larger community. While the contributions of universities to alleviate the pandemic’s impact have been most visible in public health (Daniels, R. J. 2020. Universities’ Vital Role in the Pandemic Response. Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine. https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2020/universities-vital-role-pandemic-response), they have extended to other areas of relief and support as well. Almost half of universities participating in a global survey conducted by the International Association of Universities indicated that due to the pandemic, their community engagement had increased (Marinoni G et al. The impact of Covid-19 on higher education around the world. IAU global survey report. International Association of Universities, Paris. https://www.iau-aiu.net/IMG/pdf/iau_covid19_and_he_survey_report_final_may_2020.pdf, 2020).This book is a study of one such response of universities to the pandemic which has not yet received sufficient attention: their support of schools at the pre-collegiate level through a variety of innovative approaches to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on opportunity to learn.In this chapter, we argue that studying such innovations provides insight into the responsiveness of universities to complex societal needs and into their capacity to operate as learning organizations open to their external environment. We introduce the study, explain its value in understanding the role and nature of higher education’s outreach, social impact, and capacity to deal with complex challenges, and summarize the chapters of the book and the results of a survey which was administered to over one-hundred universities to study the nature of their collaborations with schools during the first 9 months of the pandemic, between March and December of 2020.

scholarly journals A Global View of Internationalisation: What Next?

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-88
Author(s):  
Elspeth Jones ◽  
Hans de Wit
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Global View ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Parts

AbstractThe International Association of Universities has long espoused a values-driven approach to internationalisation “to ensure that the outcomes of internationalisation are positive and of reciprocal benefit to the higher education institutions and the countries concerned” (IAU 2012). In line with this, there is increasing discussion about whether the concept of internationalisation has yet been adopted in more distinctive forms in different parts of the world to better reflect local needs and priorities. This debate seeks to consider the impact on policy and practice through new perspectives from those whose voices do not normally have a strong presence in the discourse. In this contribution, we will reflect further on these key points, and consider what might be involved in taking the internationalisation agenda forward in more sustainable, equitable and inclusive ways.

scholarly journals Policies for Tobacco and E-Cigarette Use: A Survey of All Higher Education Institutions and NHS Trusts in England

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (7) ◽  
pp. 1235-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna K M Blackwell ◽  
Daina Kosīte ◽  
Theresa M Marteau ◽  
Marcus R Munafò
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Public Health Benefit ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
Outdoor Spaces ◽  
Smoking Policies ◽  
Workplace Policies ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Introduction There is an absence of evidence regarding the impact of treating tobacco smoking and vaping equivalently in workplace policies. We aimed to describe and compare smoking and vaping policies in acute nonspecialist NHS Trusts (n = 131) and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) (n = 131) in England. Methods We conducted a census of smoking and vaping policies through organizational websites searches and direct requests for information. We recorded whether and where smoking and vaping were permitted. Results Smoking was prohibited indoors in all organizations. No NHS Trust permitted smoking freely outdoors, in contrast with 60% of HEIs. In 27% of NHS Trusts and 33% of HEIs smoking was permitted in designated areas, while in 73% of NHS Trusts and 8% of HEIs smoking was prohibited anywhere on site. Vaping was prohibited indoors in all NHS Trusts and all but one HEI, but permitted freely outdoors in 18% of NHS Trusts and 75% of HEIs. Vaping was permitted in designated outdoor spaces in 23% of NHS Trusts: 21% had areas shared with smokers; 2% had separate vaping areas. Vaping was permitted in designated outdoor areas in 18% of HEIs, all of which were shared with smokers. Vaping was prohibited anywhere on site in 54% of NHS Trusts and 6% of HEIs. Conclusions Policies vary considerably in whether vaping and smoking are treated equivalently. Smoking policies in most HEIs should be reviewed to include more effective tobacco control approaches. Evidence is needed on the impact of imposing shared or separate spaces on vapers and smokers. Implications This report provides a comprehensive review of smoking and vaping policies in two types of organization across England. It highlights key discrepancies between current public health recommendations for vaping and existing workplace policies, which often lead to smokers and vapers sharing spaces. The report identifies the need for evidence on the impact of imposing shared spaces on smokers and vapers to inform workplace policies that maximize public health benefit.

scholarly journals ICT Utilization and Improving Students Performance in Higher Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5120-5124
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Ranking Algorithm ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Competitive Growth ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
The Impact

Nowadays, higher education providing institutions depend upon Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for all purposes like teaching, administration, learning and other research related works. ICT is found to be a major resource for bringing competitive growth for an organization. In general, the use of ICT in higher education institution plays a vital role in providing modern learning approaches. Further, the utilization of data mining in ICT can predict the performance of students and offer a way to improve it. This paper identifies the usage of ICTs among higher graduates and the impact of parameters such as gender, area of interest as well as name of the university. In addition, data mining based ranking algorithm is introduced in order to analyze the performance of students. The evaluation results show that the use of ICT in higher education provides technological improvements and these enhancements are associated with factors such as gender, area of interest as well as university. Moreover, the ranking algorithm can easily evaluate the ICT based performance of higher education institutions.

scholarly journals The impact of globalisation on higher education at coimbatore district

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-67
Author(s):  
Vijayalakshmi V ◽  
Srividya M
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Educational Institution ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Education plays a vital role in the development of any nation and this fact is well recognized all over the world. It is imperative for any nation now a days to focus on developing its higher education, since advanced knowledge, advanced facilities only can fulfill man’s advanced needs today. But unlike the primary education, higher education is a financially demanding one for a nation. The economic reforms, initiated since 1991 including Globalization has resulted in the higher demand for the people of India both within and abroad, Since domestic and multinational industries look for more knowledgeable and skilled man power all over the world. The Indian Government initially found it difficult to fully fund from its own the fast growing Indian higher education sector and hence allowed the private players to establish and run higher education institutions. This has led to the establishment of large number of higher education institutions in India over the last two decades. Higher education has seen tremendous growth over the past few years though it does not mean that it is free from problems. Theperformance of an educational institution is judged not only on the basis of the quality of education being provided but also on the basis of its contribution to the society. The present study has made an attempt to find whether all these developments have brought about benefits to the students in particular and to the society in general with reference to higher education especially, the impact of globalization on the scenario of higher education. The present study concentrated on areas such as quality of higher education now, problems faced by the students and the service providers, benefits attained by the society and necessary strategies for improving the quality of higher education in the era of globalization, if the present scenario is falling short of being beneficial to one and all concerned.

scholarly journals Chemical safety as a component of general and professional competences in training of future doctors

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Alla Ishchenko
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Health Protection ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Chemical Safety ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
The Future ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Future Doctor

The study analyzes the content of international (project "Harmonization of educational structures in Europe") and Ukrainian (industry standard of higher education field of knowledge 22 "Health Protection", specialty 222 "Medicine") legal documents of training future doctors in the context of modern ideas on chemical safety. The components of chemical safety are identified: understanding of the chemical factor as an integral danger to human health; knowledge of methods of labeling chemicals and products; compliance with the rules and safety measures for working with chemical products throughout the life cycle. The content of the main professional competencies of the second level of medical education of the project "Harmonization of educational structures in Europe", which are related to the application of chemical safety issues in the future professional activity of the future doctor: to consult with the patient; provide emergency medical care in emergencies; apply the principles, skills and knowledge of evidence-based medicine; promote health, to address public health issues and work effectively in the health care system, is revealed. The general and professional competencies of the future doctor in the field of chemical safety, which are stated in the industry standard of higher education in the field of knowledge 22 "Health Protection ", specialty 222 "Medicine", are established: desire to preserve the environment; ability to carry out sanitary and hygienic and preventive measures; ability to conduct epidemiological and medical-statistical studies of public health; ability to assess the impact of the environment on the health of the population (individual, family, population); ability to implement resource efficiency activities

A Conceptual Study on Employer Perception towards Hiring Employee with Online Degree/Certification

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Naresh B. ◽  
Rajalakshmi M.
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Geographical Differences ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Major Factors ◽  
The Impact

Higher education is enduring a transition across the world. This transition leads to the introduction of technology into the education system and provides opportunities to pursue a degree through online participation. According to Bramble and Panda, globalization plays a vital role in recognizing the necessity of providing online learning opportunities in higher education. The stakeholders and education institutions are very much concerned about the massive potential of online learning models. In the span of a decade, the demand for online courses has increased due to change in technology, lifestyle, economics, concerns of employees to develop knowledge, new competency skills and thinning out the geographical differences, etc. The innovative archetype of the online education is significant in quality, course content, satisfaction, and the perception of the users from various levels when compared to traditional face-to-face classroom systems. As a result, online education is more effective and efficient than the model of face-to-face education. The main objective of this research is to analyse and measure the various factors that affect employer perception towards online education systems in their recruitment process and cycle. 549 articles have been examined in terms of integrated literature review system to measure the impact. The result indicates, awareness, readiness, credentials and reputation are the major factors that affect employer perception on hiring decision.

scholarly journals Internationalization of Higher Education: Converging or Diverging Trends?

2014 ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Egron-Polak
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internationalization Of Higher Education ◽  
Perceived Risks ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
Institutional Leadership ◽  
The World ◽  
Geographic Regions

Offering a glimpse at the results of the most recent global survey on internationalization of higher education conducted by the International Association of Universities (IAU), the article focuses on a few findings that show the growing importance of internationalization policies/strategies for higher education institutions worldwide as well as the strong role played by institutional leadership.  A discussion of the perceived risks for institutions and for society serves to demonstrate some converging trends while also pointing out the persistent differences and variations between HEIs in different geographic regions of the world.  Some analysis of the responses to questions about funding of internationalization is used to highlight the complexity of the picture drawn by the findings of this 4th Global Survey.

scholarly journals The Impact of Financial Disruption on Indian Students Planning Higher Education in and Outside Home Country, with Special Reference to SBI Education Loan

2020 ◽  
pp. 371-377
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Demand For Education ◽  
Education In India ◽  
Flowing System ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indian Students ◽  
Loan Amount

India has tackled large-scale reform to improve student ratio in higher education as a remarkable career based path. The expanding capacity for doctoral students at research universities and breakup for educational qualifications for teaching eligibility raising the standards during the recent decades reflects the growth aspect of higher education in India. India has been able to overcome the learning outcomes and enrolment numbers with a student-centric learning-driven model of education. The landscape of India’s higher education has modified during the last two decades. This paper studies the growth of finance offered for diploma courses, under graduation, post graduations within and outside India. Education Loans play a vital role in the flowing system of advances and the growing demand for quality education in the current job market. The demand for education loan seeker and the supply of funds from the financial institutions has seen a lot of variations due to the disruption in the recovery ratio. A detailed study on Education Loan Interest Rate, Loan Tenure, Loan Amount and Pre-closure Charges are the highlights of this paper along with loan sanctioned and loan disbursed for students studying within India and abroad regarding the SBI Education Loan data.

scholarly journals Transforming public health education in Aotearoa New Zealand:

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Cath Conn ◽  
Shoba Nayar ◽  
Margaret Hinepo Williams ◽  
Radilaite Cammock
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
The Impact

The face of public health is changing in response to local and global trends of rapid technological development, worsening inequities, and the prominent role of the COVID-19 pandemic (Mays et al., 2012; Dahlgren et al., 2015; Schleicher, 2020). Public health jobs reflect these shifts, emphasizing a need for greater online collaboration and project design, complex problem-solving, and more fluid work patterns. Concurrently, education globally is in a process of transformation reflecting similar concerns to that of the public health industry. This change is paradigmatic and evolving from that of factory model education (traditional Campus 101 in the university or higher education setting) to something which must now reflect 21st century employability (Trilling & Fadel, 2009; Bolstad et al, 2012; Robinson, 2020). In 2020, COVID-19 brought rapid and significant change to the teaching of public health education in the Aotearoa New Zealand university setting. In this presentation we reflect on the short-term change that took place across higher education as delivery of existing curricula shifted from classroom to online; including in our own practice of public health education. Moreover, we consider the greater agenda of a transformative educational paradigm, broadly conceptualized as a shift from a factory model education to one of 21st century learning, with an emphasis on fostering creativity; heutagogical (student-driven) models underpinned by technology (Bolstad et al., 2012; Robinson, 2020); and real-world application of this involving problem and project-based learning in a changing health industry (Topol, 2015; Mesko, 2015). Such change has stemmed both from the impact of COVID-19 on the education system, and in response to a momentous transformation in public health careers and societal expectations of a public health workforce. Prior to COVID-19, public health education primarily consisted of classroom based learning, online resources, and standardized assessment. These methods fulfilled the criteria of giving students much needed ‘knowledge’. However, the standardized nature of delivery and assessments (and indeed the non-digital nature of public health education) was also reflective of graduates being trained to enter an industrial workforce, which has complied with uniform 20th century organizational processes and norms. COVID-19 has demanded a complete change to delivery of education to encompass online methods. It also offers opportunities for the move towards creative, flexible and personalized learning that emphasizes student choice, personal identity and strengths, in a time where the nature of organisation and work is transforming. It is not yet clear whether Aotearoa New Zealand higher education will make the most of such opportunities. As society becomes more diffuse and complex with many different players joining in a complex multisectoral and interdisciplinary workforce that is bounded by the digital era; public health higher education, in partnership with community and industry, must undergo change to respond accordingly.

scholarly journals The Successes and Failures of the Initial COVID-19 Pandemic Response in Romania

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Dascalu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
The World ◽  
Pandemic Response ◽  
Public Health Strategies ◽  
The Impact

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries around the world varied in the strength and timeliness of their responses. In Romania, specific challenges were faced with regards to managing the spread and limiting the impact of the disease, ranging from healthcare infrastructure to demographic and sociocultural aspects. As the country has a sizeable diaspora, major difficulties were faced when large numbers of individuals from highly affected areas returned to Romania. However, the fast implementation of control measures successfully averted a surge in the number of COVID-19 cases. This delayed the overburdening of an already challenged healthcare system during the initial phases of the epidemic. Furthermore, early control was facilitated by the exploitation of communication channels that penetrated all layers of society, from ordinary citizens to governmental authorities and high-ranking religious figures. The management of the COVID-19 crisis in Romania illustrates the importance of a fast initial response which takes into account the role played by sociocultural aspects in the context of an epidemic. As the challenges faced by Romania are not unique, these results could inform future public health strategies worldwide.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document