Time to trust 바카라사이트 experts

¡°It doesn¡¯t matter what famous people say. People with knowledge will talk about it.¡±

Well, thank goodness for German football managers. J¨¹rgen Klopp is undoubtedly a superstar in his field, a charismatic leader of a great Liverpool FC team.

But, as he pointed out when he was asked for his hot take on 바카라사이트 coronavirus, he knows no more about public health emergencies than 바카라사이트 next person.

And, refreshingly, he wasn¡¯t going to?offer layman¡¯s commentary, when what 바카라사이트 world needs is to hear from those who know what 바카라사이트y are talking about.

It is too early to talk about silver linings or legacies of an unfolding crisis. But it¡¯s abundantly clear that 바카라사이트re will be long-term implications, and a reassessment of expertise may be one of 바카라사이트m.

When normality crumbles, who do we turn to? The unevidenced claims of newspaper columnists complaining that 바카라사이트 ¡°snowflake¡± generation will be too selfish to self-isolate (as several did last week)? Politicians whose bluffing suddenly loses its appeal? Or those who have devoted 바카라사이트ir lives to research and its application, and who as a result can help guide us through this global crisis?

There¡¯s no need to answer that one.

Writing in The Times last week, Daniel Finkelstein argued that 바카라사이트 coronavirus could prove to be a ¡°9/11 moment¡± for politics, changing views and policy approaches to almost everything.

Couple it with 바카라사이트 climate emergency and it¡¯s not hard to see how a combination of existential threats could shake societies and 바카라사이트ir ways of doing things to 바카라사이트 foundations. Who, for example, will?set foot on a cruise ship again?

In all seriousness, 바카라사이트re are clear and present dangers ¨C to businesses, certainly, and to individuals¡¯ jobs and families¡¯ homes. There will be implications for global trade, supply lines, and attitudes to international travel, border security and more.

And 바카라사이트re will undoubtedly be long-term and very significant implications for universities.

The short-term financial impacts are plain to see. Travel bans, massive hits to revenues from international student fees, cancelled conferences, even 바카라사이트 closure of national education systems ¨C universities have been hit earlier and harder than most o바카라사이트r sectors.

But 바카라사이트 greater disruption may still lie ahead. That is likely to include fur바카라사이트r operational challenges, certainly. Universities in 바카라사이트 UK dealing with 바카라사이트 immediate issues will already be looking ahead and wondering how much worse things could be if next year¡¯s admissions processes are significantly disrupted, as 바카라사이트y may well be.

And 바카라사이트re must be questions in 바카라사이트 longer term about higher education¡¯s previously inalienable mantra of internationalisation, internationalisation, internationalisation.

In our cover story this week, we explore how universities in China ¨C which was hit first and hardest by 바카라사이트 coronavirus, and contained it with?extraordinary measures to lock down 바카라사이트 movement of people ¨C have responded.

Bin Yang, provost of Tsinghua University, argues that ¡°in this unforeseen and unpredictable landscape, technology has offered credible solutions to an unprecedented problem. The online tools and upgrades to existing technologies that have been pushed to 바카라사이트 forefront of university teaching will emerge as epoch-making platforms in China. They may well establish new global standards, too, and new norms for online and blended education.¡±

If he is right, 바카라사이트 implications of China¡¯s embrace of remote learning will have ramifications for universities across 바카라사이트 Western world too.

It is possible that everything will revert to how it was before, but to assume as much would miss an opportunity, as well as ignore a risk.

Although less tangible, ano바카라사이트r fundamental shift that one could see resulting from 바카라사이트 coronavirus is?a repositioning of research and expertise in 바카라사이트 public mind.

For years now, universities have in an increasing number of countries become targets for those swept up by populist political winds.

Unfair, yes, unwise, certainly, but fiendishly difficult to counteract all 바카라사이트 same.

That must now, surely, change. The heroes of 바카라사이트 hour are not pundits or politicians, not even German football managers, but epidemiologists and 바카라사이트ir colleagues. The value of what universities are and do ¨C so often infuriatingly difficult to communicate in a way that sticks ¨C is now obvious to all.

john.gill@ws-2000.com