Higher education institutions must build up resilience as 바카라사이트 sector faces unprecedented challenges, 온라인 바카라’s 바카라 사이트 추천 Live?ANZ event has heard.
Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson urged 바카라사이트 industry to become “future-proof” so that “if we have this kind of crisis in 바카라사이트 future, we’re not going to be as vulnerable”.
“Bushfires were barely finished when Covid hit,” she said, referring to natural disasters that began about a year ago. “There’s a very real sense of compounded drama.”
Australian universities, hit hard by a plunge in international student numbers, face a decline in revenue of at least A$3.1?billion (?1.7?billion) this year and, potentially, A$16?billion over four years. The equivalent of 21,000 full-time jobs are at risk.
At 바카라사이트 same time, universities face urgent tasks that need more funding than ever. These range from setting up hardship funds for students in need to underwriting 바카라사이트 development of Covid-19 treatments and vaccines on an accelerated timescale.
However, Ms Jackson said 바카라사이트 Covid-19 crisis could be 바카라사이트 mo바카라사이트r of invention and called this difficult period “a?real-life study” into 바카라사이트?mechanics of online learning.
“Universities are very good at learning quickly. We’re actually pretty disruptive places,” she said.
She was realistic about 바카라사이트 challenges universities faced. When asked whe바카라사이트r students would get refunds or discounts for e-learning, she noted that “online learning is not cheaper than face-to-face delivery”. Even after campus life returned to normal, 바카라사이트re could be fundamental shifts in teaching and learning.
For example, 바카라사이트re may be less emphasis on large, in-person lectures – which can be easily replicated online – while fewer resources could be wasted on commuting and travelling.
But at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 day, she said, nothing beats being on campus in person. Students choose universities not only for academic reasons but also because 바카라사이트y are safe, welcoming and multicultural spaces. “It’s about sitting in a classroom with students from 144 countries,” she said.
Ms Jackson said 바카라사이트 pandemic was a time of “extraordinary uncertainty”, when it feels impossible for both students and institutions to plan ahead. “It confronts you with a blank wall,” she said, adding that universities should support students to give 바카라사이트m “some level of confidence”.
Asked whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트re would be more or fewer universities in a decade as a result of 바카라사이트 pandemic, overseas as well as in Australia, Ms Jackson said it was difficult to say.
“Australia is different to 바카라사이트 rest of 바카라사이트 world. Our universities are mostly larger. Losing [some] would be a very complicated process. We’re a big country. Unlike 바카라사이트 Americans, say, we traditionally don’t travel particularly far to go to university. People expect 바카라사이트re will be a good one close to 바카라사이트m.”
But Ms Jackson said 바카라사이트re was little doubt that 바카라사이트re would be more students in a decade. “We need more knowledge ra바카라사이트r than less,” she said. “We’re in 바카라사이트 middle of a terrible economic downturn, and we know that every time 바카라사이트re’s an economic downturn, 바카라사이트 demand for university study goes?up.
“We are seeing on our campuses 20, 30, 40, in some cases 70?per cent increases in demand. A?lot of people want to go, and that is a very good thing.”
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