The Impact of Covid-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. Setting the Stage

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on the Institutional Fabric of Higher Education

      • Rómulo Pinheiro, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Pundy Pillay, Akiyoshi Yonezawa

      Pages 3-36Open Access

3. The System’s Responses to COVID-19

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37

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   2. Evidence, Stakeholders and Decision Making: Managing COVID-19 in Irish Higher Education

      • Marie Clarke

      Pages 39-63Open Access

   3. New Actors, Administrative Measures and Conflicting Agendas: The Impact of the Pandemic on Internationalisation of Higher Education in Poland and Russia

      • Svetlana Shenderova, Dominik Antonowicz, Marta Jaworska

      Pages 65-87Open Access

   4. Highlighting Systemic Inequalities: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on French Higher Education

      • Dorota Dakowska

      Pages 89-115Open Access

   5. Higher Education Response to COVID-19 in Uganda: Regulatory Tools and Adaptive Institutions

      • Ronald Bisaso, Pius Coxwell Achanga

      Pages 117-140Open Access

4. Higher Education Institutions’ Responses to Covid-19

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Higher Education in Brazil: Institutional Actions for the Retention of Students in Public and Private Sectors

      • Maria-Ligia Barbosa, Eduardo Henrique Narciso Borges, Adriane Gouvea, Felícia Picanço, Leonardo Rodrigues, André Vieira

      Pages 143-171Open Access

   3. Transformation of International University Education Through Digitalisation During/After the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges in Online International Learning in Japanese Universities

      • Akiyoshi Yonezawa, Hiroshi Ota, Keiko Ikeda, Yukako Yonezawa

      Pages 173-198Open Access

   4. Internationalization of Higher Education in Argentina upon the Arrival of COVID-19: Reactions and Lessons from the Perspective of International Relations Office

      • Marcelo Rabossi, Ariadna Guaglianone, Alex Markman

      Pages 199-221Open Access

   5. University-Civic Engagement in the Time of the Pandemic

      • David Charles

      Pages 223-243Open Access

   6. Public Service Resilience in a Post-COVID-19 World: Digital Transformation in Nordic Higher Education

      • Michael Oduro Asante, Sudeepika Wajirakumari Samarathunga Liyanapathiranage, Rómulo Pinheiro

      Pages 245-267Open Access

   7. Entrepreneurial Universities, from Research Groups to Spin-off Companies, in a Time of COVID-19

      • Mariza Almeida, Branca Terra

      Pages 269-291Open Access

5. Actors’ Responses to Covid-19

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293

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   2. Challenges, Opportunities, and Coping Strategies When Faced with the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study of Academics in Mainland China and Hong Kong

      • Yingxin Liu, Hugo Horta

      Pages 295-319Open Access

   3. “We Shouldn’t Let Academia Exhaust Ourselves Anymore!”: Pandemic Practices and the Changing Psychological Contract in Twenty-First-Century Academia

      • Terhi Nokkala, Melina Aarnikoivu, Taina Saarinen

      Pages 321-344Open Access

   4. Moving Beyond Policy on Digital Transformation: Perceptions of Digital Transformation of Teaching by Academic Staff and Students

      • Espen Solberg, Cathrine E. Tømte

      Pages 345-363Open Access

   5. Remote Universities? Impacts of COVID-19 as Experienced by Academic Leaders in Finland

      • Elias Pekkola, Taru Siekkinen, Motolani Peltola, Harri Laihonen, Emmi-Niina Kujala

      Pages 365-387Open Access

This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the book is both comparative and global in nature. It also brings together researchers from a variety of disciplinary fields, including political scientists, historians, economists, sociologist, and anthropologists. In doing so, the book fosters an inter-disciplinary dialogue and inclusive methodological approach for unpacking the complexities associated with modern higher education systems and institutions.

• Covid-19
• Global higher education
• Universities
• Strategic responses
• Resilience
• Open Access

• Department of Political Science and Management, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

  Rómulo Pinheiro

• Department of Political Science & Institute for Advanced Studies, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

  Elizabeth Balbachevsky

• Graduate School of Public and Development, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  Pundy Pillay

• International Strategy Office, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  Akiyoshi Yonezawa

Rómulo Pinheiro is Professor of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Agder, Norway. 

Elizabeth Balbachevsky is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. 

Pundy Pillay is Professor of Economics and Public Finance at Wits University, South Africa. 

Akiyoshi Yonezawa is Professor and Vice-Director at the International Strategy Office, Tohoku University, Japan.