Policies and Strategies on Widening Access and Experiences of Inclusive Practices in Higher Education in England

COVID-19, geopolitics and risk management: Towards framing a reciprocal, coordinated, responsive and empathetic international education sector

“…Geopolitical tensions together with the pandemic have created turbulences for higher education (Lucas, 2021;Maher and Van Noorden, 2021;Ross, 2020b) that have increasingly necessitated the reimagination of the current operating model. While the impacts of geopolitics on IE are visible, the participants interviewed in this study largely agree that geopolitical tensions alone cannot damage the IE sector as it has always been vulnerable to global crises and domestic issues and revived.…”

“…(Stephen, IE leader, university) This echoes Blackmore's (2020) critiques about the carelessness of Australian universities to its people and values as they have become corporatized, most evident during the pandemic when over 40,000 academic and professional jobs were lost in 2020 alone and still mounting. Many academics continue to experience heightened workload while living in fear of more job losses as universities are being restructured yet again (Lucas, 2021). If universities are to improve their duty of care to students amidst geopolitical turbulences, it is vital that their academic and professional staff are protected and supported as they are in the front line of working with students.…”