Universities Must Help Shape the Post-COVID-19 World
“Universities Must Help Shape the Post-COVID-19 World” was published on University World News on 18 April 2020. It was written by Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania, Sjur Bergan, Former Head, Education Department, Council of Europe, Tony Gallagher, Professor, Queen’s University Belfast, and Hilligje van’t Land, IAU Secretary General.
Abstract: “The world will never be the same again.” This is perhaps the least hazardous prediction one can make about the consequence of the COVID-19 crisis. This crisis will surely change all societal institutions, not just the healthcare sector. The precise nature of that change is, at this time, unknowable. The safe prediction that the world will change leaves open the form and direction this change will take. But it cannot and should not be left unguided, subject to those seeking to re-establish old systems of power. We contend that higher education must play a major role in helping to shape the post-COVID-19 world and do so by reshaping higher education itself.
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