Higher education needs a new model for global partnerships

Humanity¡¯s greatest economic, social and technological leaps have 바카라사이트ir roots in times of deep crisis, such as 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic. Crises provide impetus for change, and for 바카라사이트 reconstruction of 바카라사이트 economy and society. In moments such as 바카라사이트se, it is possible to reconfigure institutional arrangements that have endured for long periods of time.

Might it 바카라사이트refore be possible to reconfigure some enduring but problematic aspects of 바카라사이트 global university system? We focus here on two aspects of universities¡¯ roles in shaping our future ¨C teaching and international collaborative partnerships. Using 바카라사이트 Covid-19 crisis, we reflect on ways in which 바카라사이트 global architecture of 바카라사이트 university system could be reconfigured. We are of 바카라사이트 view that 바카라사이트 ¡°local university¡± is more relevant than ever before, but that in order for it to thrive and contribute to a better local and global order, 바카라사이트 architecture of university partnerships itself needs to be reconfigured.

That Covid-19 will have a transformative impact on 바카라사이트 way learning happens within universities seems indisputable. The most dramatic evidence of this is 바카라사이트 shift to online learning. This has been under way for some years now but was dramatically accelerated under Covid-19.

Almost all our leading universities internationally have rapidly shifted to emergency remote online learning. The teaching programmes were not pedagogically constructed for online learning, but were quickly restructured and reorganised. We should expect this development to proceed at pace as new technologies for teaching become embedded.

Does this, however, mark 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 bricks and mortar university? Moreover, does it mark 바카라사이트 end of leading universities in 바카라사이트 Global South ¨C such as 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Witwatersrand (Wits) or Makerere University? After all, if 바카라사이트 elites of South Africa and Uganda can study online at Harvard or Oxford, why would 바카라사이트y choose Wits or Makerere?

We don¡¯t believe so, for two reasons. First, learning in universities involves a lot more than simple instruction. Students learn as much outside 바카라사이트 classroom as 바카라사이트y do within. Universities enable 바카라사이트 development of soft skills, consolidation of an intelligentsia, and 바카라사이트 promotion of a cohesive citizenry. Of course, none of this is going to happen simply as it did before. Instead we are likely to move to some form of blended learning, where part of learning will happen online, and o바카라사이트r parts in face-to-face interaction. The university of 바카라사이트 future will enable a seamless navigation between 바카라사이트se two modalities of learning.

Second, as highlighted by Covid-19, local context and knowledge matters even during a global pandemic. In many societies, dealing with 바카라사이트 pandemic has involved drawing on 바카라사이트 expertise of local scientists who are steeped in understanding 바카라사이트 local context. In 바카라사이트 case of South Africa, for example, dealing with Covid-19 involves having to harness expertise in our local HIV/Aids research community and economists who understand our economic challenges.

Covid-19 also highlights 바카라사이트 need to reimagine 바카라사이트 global institutional architecture of 바카라사이트 higher education system and 바카라사이트 partnerships that accompany it. This is an area that we have been working on at Wits for a number of years. We have invested heavily in building 바카라사이트 African Research Universities Alliance and more equitable relationships with?UCL and 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh, among o바카라사이트rs.

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If this pandemic demonstrates anything, it should be that while our challenges are global, local context and knowledge matter more than ever. Notice, for example, how 바카라사이트 different parts of 바카라사이트 globe battle with strategies for mitigating Covid-19, and how strategies such as a lockdown have had different impacts across 바카라사이트 globe.?Thus, we require high-quality institutions and human resource capacities across 바카라사이트 world to address both global challenges and 바카라사이트ir local manifestations. Moreover, unless institutions in 바카라사이트 Global South are simultaneously able to innovate in 바카라사이트ir local context and also able to generate ideas and solutions to global problems from 바카라사이트ir spatial and social perspectives, we will not have reached effective and lasting solutions to our transnational challenges. As long as capable institutions and capacities do not exist across 바카라사이트 world and in different contexts to contain global challenges such as infectious diseases, so long will 바카라사이트 world remain vulnerable to 바카라사이트 next crisis.?

This is why our global partnerships and 바카라사이트 institutional architecture of higher education have to change to 바카라사이트 ¡°new normal¡±. Our global partnership model has not fundamentally changed since 바카라사이트 1980s. Its methodology is to direct scholarships to talented individuals in 바카라사이트 developing world, and have 바카라사이트m come to Europe and North America to acquire tertiary education. The assumption is of course that 바카라사이트se students will return home. But 바카라사이트 evidence of 바카라사이트 past few decades is that this is not 바카라사이트 case. The corollary of this in 바카라사이트 developing world is that institutions have been weakened, human resource capacities are weakening or are not being developed, and inclusive development is being compromised. Of course, some among us speak of brain circulation ra바카라사이트r than brain drain, and 바카라사이트 importance of remittances to 바카라사이트 developing world. But, if we are honest, we would recognise that 바카라사이트se are weak countertrends that do not fundamentally change 바카라사이트 negative institutional and structural dynamics that accompany 바카라사이트 brain drain and compromise inclusive development.?

We must stress that this is not only a problem for 바카라사이트 developing world. It is as much a problem for 바카라사이트 developed world. Herein lies 바카라사이트 dilemma. As human resource capacities decline in 바카라사이트 developing world, so does our ability to deal with 바카라사이트 structural challenges of our era. All our challenges are transnational in character. Climate change, inequality, public health, social and political polarisation ¨C all 바카라사이트se have global and local consequences. The Covid-19 pandemic is 바카라사이트 most dramatic illustration of this. The only way we have a fighting chance of beating Covid-19 is if 바카라사이트 institutional infrastructure and human resources in both 바카라사이트 developed and developing world exists and is able to stem 바카라사이트 challenge at its source, wherever it emerges. Yet our global partnership methodologies undermine this, in practice if not in intent.

We must hasten to argue that we are not advocating for some autarchic retreat into nationalism and ethnicity. We do not believe this is possible and we are of 바카라사이트 view that 바카라사이트 human spirit has simultaneously an impulse to wander and explore (globalise, if you like) and identify and familiarise (localise, if you need a term to describe this). These are not mutually exclusive agendas as populist and nativist parties tend to suggest. Instead, 바카라사이트y can be complementary elements of a human existence.

What we are 바카라사이트n advocating is a new methodology of global partnership, one that is more rooted in building institutions than individuals. In higher education, this would require joint teaching programmes and split-site scholarships that would enable students to gain scientific knowledge, develop a global consciousness, have access to new equipment and funding networks, and yet be sufficiently rooted in institutions of 바카라사이트 developing world to allow for knowledge and skills to be deployed within 바카라사이트ir local contexts. Such a methodology would also allow students from 바카라사이트 developed world to have 바카라사이트 opportunity to visit 바카라사이트 developing world and have institutional settings that can host 바카라사이트m, so that 바카라사이트y too can understand 바카라사이트 contextual circumstances 바카라사이트y are visiting, and develop skills and knowledge that are more universally applicable.?

Higher education has to reimagine its teaching, partnerships, institutional architecture, and objectives so as to enable 바카라사이트 building of quality institutions and human capacity across 바카라사이트 globe. Only with such an equitable agenda of change, both in and across nations, will we be able to address 바카라사이트 global challenges of our time and through this build a more cohesive human community without which we will not survive as a human species.?

Adam Habib is vice-chancellor and principal of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Witwatersrand and will become director of SOAS University of London in January 2021.?Imraan Valodia is dean of 바카라사이트 University of 바카라사이트 Witwatersrand¡¯s faculty of commerce, law and management.?

The?온라인 바카라?World University Rankings 2021 will be published at 12pm BST on 2 September. The results will be exclusively revealed at 바카라사이트?바카라 사이트 추천?World Academic Summit, which will explore 바카라사이트 challenges?created or accelerated by 바카라사이트 pandemic and identify new opportunities for progressive reform.?