The Internationalization of Higher Education in the Wake of COVID-19: A Rigorous Review of the Literature on Shor term Impacts
This report is published as part of the Future of Internationalization Partnerships Project, a collaboration between the IAU, the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE) at Boston College, and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. This report, produced at the end of the first year of the project, was published as a part of the CIHE Perspectives Series.
About the Publication:
This report summarizes the academic and professional literature on how COVID-19 has affected the internationalization of higher education in the short term, specifically between March 2020 and August 2021. The report includes a conceptual framework of major domains and activities in the internationalization of HE which reflects the impact of COVID-19 on internationalization processes. The report moreover includes a literature analysis which aimed to: 1) to consider how COVID-19 has affected the internationalization of higher education worldwide based on available research; and 2) to identify gaps in the literature. In this process 158 publications were analysed and coded based on publication type, country or region of interest, internationalization domain or activity, and emergent key themes.
