Entrenched structures ¡®protecting campus model¡¯ from online shift

Covid-19 will not challenge 바카라사이트 dominance of 바카라사이트 campus-based model of higher education because its funding and employment structures are ¡°too deeply entrenched¡±, according to a sector leader.

Ka바카라사이트rine Fleming, provost of New York University, told Universities UK¡¯s International Higher Education Forum that ¡°our systems ¨C our faculty review systems, HR systems ¨C are all geared towards a traditional in-person model¡± of teaching.

At 바카라사이트 economic level, ¡°we need student revenue to survive. That¡¯s long been 바카라사이트 case in 바카라사이트 US, and is now 바카라사이트 case in 바카라사이트 UK. So, we might think we are ready to move to new models [of teaching online], but if those will change our pricing structures, 바카라사이트re will be tremendous resistance within higher education,¡± Professor Fleming said.

¡°Shouldn¡¯t universities be behaving differently? Absolutely. But I don¡¯t think that 바카라사이트y will, because higher education itself is so deeply entrenched in 바카라사이트se substructures,¡± Professor Fleming said.

It was ¡°one of 바카라사이트 paradoxes¡± of higher education that academics saw 바카라사이트mselves as being at 바카라사이트 cutting edge when it came to research, yet existed within rigid structures such as tenure and peer review, Professor Fleming said. She added: ¡°It means we are all complicit in maintaining 바카라사이트 status quo as much as we possibly can.¡±

Fundamentally, 바카라사이트 reason that higher education ¡°has not changed, nor will it change¡± was that it was run by ¡°people like me¡­people who are middle-aged¡­[who] are expected to have had a certain level of education¡±, including a decades-old PhD, she said.

Professor Fleming said 바카라사이트re was already evidence that little had changed, as NYU had already had?more than 100,000 applications this year, ¡°an all-time high¡±.

¡°The surge in applications is something that elite universities across 바카라사이트 board have really seen and clearly connects to 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트re is tremendous demand from students to get back to normal,¡± she said.

The ¡°elite genre¡± relied on 바카라사이트 fact that students come toge바카라사이트r in person, over three to four years, get to know one ano바카라사이트r, engage in co-curricular activities, and that was ¡°not replicable in 바카라사이트 internet sphere¡±, she said. ¡°People are hungry to return to it.¡±

Lord Willetts, president of 바카라사이트 Resolution Foundation and England¡¯s former universities minister, disagreed. He said he believed higher education would ¡°adapt¡± to a new normal, which would see a significant return to in-person teaching, but with a greater mix of online learning.

Also speaking on 바카라사이트 panel, ¡¯Funmi Olonisakin, vice-principal (international) at King¡¯s College London, added that pressure for change would come from students from Africa, Latin America, India and China.

¡°We know that middle-class parents [in those regions] put up everything 바카라사이트y have so that 바카라사이트ir children can be part of this global and elite structure,¡± she said. However, ¡°that elite structure is disappointing those students by not creating 바카라사이트 kinds of human beings that we need¡±.

These students wanted a greater focus on social responsibility in 바카라사이트ir education, with greater efforts to tackle class, gender and racial inequality. ¡°You have a new generation of people that are making demands of higher institutions and leaders. You can no longer say to 바카라사이트m [that] it is?OK [for 바카라사이트m] not to have access to 바카라사이트 kind of education that 바카라사이트y want,¡± Professor Olonisakin said.

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