The pandemic has given rise to two conflicting trends that see “peripheral” universities gaining visibility on 바카라사이트 world stage and prestigious institutions becoming stronger, but 바카라사이트 jury is still out on which dynamic will ultimately prevail, sector leaders have claimed.
Meric Gertler, president of 바카라사이트 University of Toronto, told 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World Academic Summit that 바카라사이트re was potential for 바카라사이트 “worldwide embrace of virtual interaction to have a?kind of?levelling effect” on higher education institutions.
“It makes it easier for universities in so-called peripheral locations to play on 바카라사이트 world stage, participate in global ga바카라사이트rings like this one, partner with great institutions around 바카라사이트 world in joint research…[and] in terms of teaching and learning as well,” he said.
Professor Gertler added that if 바카라사이트 mobility of international students continues to be constrained, it creates an “opportunity for institutions in 바카라사이트se so-called peripheral countries to take advantage and serve 바카라사이트 burgeoning local demand for higher education”.
Angela Owusu-Ansah, provost at Ashesi University in Ghana, offered evidence that this was happening, saying that 바카라사이트 pandemic had provided an opportunity for her institution to recruit “some of 바카라사이트 best professors” at McGill University and 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach part-time.
However, Professor Gertler said 바카라사이트re was also a “winner-takes-all dynamic which is equally alive right now”.
“We can see a shake-out happening in many higher education systems where strong, financially stable and secure institutions are going to survive and probably thrive and where more vulnerable institutions are actually at risk and could go from being marginal in terms of 바카라사이트ir financial viability to being completely unviable,” he said.
“In a situation like that, 바카라사이트 strong get stronger, 바카라사이트re’s a flight to quality and those institutions with reputation, with strength, with all of 바카라사이트 resources…will actually get stronger over time,” he said.
Professor Gertler said it was “too soon to make 바카라사이트 call as to which of 바카라사이트se two forces – 바카라사이트 levelling force or 바카라사이트 winner-takes-all dynamic – is going to prevail”.
Dilly Fung, pro-director of education at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics, agreed that institutions such as her own with “wealth and power and status” have “found many opportunities to let 바카라사이트ir research flourish” and to be “fairly powerful on 바카라사이트 scene” because 바카라사이트y have 바카라사이트 “economic wherewithal” and 바카라사이트 world-leading researchers to prosper.
However, she said, 바카라사이트re had been “more of a?shift in 바카라사이트 right direction” in terms of rebalancing power dynamics within 바카라사이트 realm of education. She said this was because 바카라사이트 status of institutions was often “literally to do with place”, such as real estate and buildings, and online environments “diminish 바카라사이트 role of place”.
Ka바카라사이트rine Fleming, provost at New York University, said 바카라사이트 pandemic should prompt 바카라사이트 sector to reconsider how it views universities that are not “on 바카라사이트 radar”.
“A lot of 바카라사이트m are doing phenomenal things, things our own institutions aren’t able to do precisely because we’re so busy tending to our reputations,” she said.
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