29 March 2020 Issue No: 591

Major international and national school exams suspended

Yojana Sharma

Major international examinations normally taken by the most internationally mobile students, such as the International Baccalaureate and international A levels, and national school-leaving exams in many countries have been suspended due to the school closures caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

GLOBAL

How will higher education have changed after COVID-19?

Marguerite Dennis

In the midst of the novel coronavirus outbreak, we need to consider what the worldwide economic and higher education landscape will look like after the threat from the pandemic has dissipated, including changes to the supply chain, recruitment practices and online learning.

GLOBAL

COVID-19 shows the need to make learning more flexible

Michaela Martin and Uliana Furiv

Although COVID-19 is likely to be a temporary crisis, it should serve as a wake-up call for higher education systems to flex their access and transfer pathways and ensure the provision of flexible educational delivery modes that serve diverse populations of learners.

UNITED KINGDOM

Challenges of student recruitment in the age of COVID-19

Janet Ilieva and Vincenzo Raimo

International Higher Education Forum

GLOBAL

Five years to recover global mobility, says IHE expert

Nic Mitchell

Higher education can expect at least 12 months of “abnormal conditions” from the COVID-19 pandemic – with at least five years before global student mobility recovers, according to Professor Simon Marginson, the director of the Centre for Global Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

UNITED KINGDOM

COVID-19 crisis will change HE forever, IHEF hears

Nic Mitchell

GLOBAL

Will coronavirus end international HE’s flying addiction?

Nic Mitchell

Click here for our global hub with complete coverage of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on higher education

Coronavirus Crisis and HE

INDIA

Indian students stranded around world try to rush home

Shuriah Niazi

Hundreds of Indian students have been stranded in Italy, Malaysia, the United Kingdom, United States and the Philippines amid lockdowns and travel disruptions due to the fast-spreading COVID-19 pandemic. The Indian government says it is trying to bring them back, but parents want faster action.