Higher Education in the Aftermath of the Pandemic: Lessons From Zambia and Eswatini

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Author(s): Fred Moonga (University of Eswatini, Eswatini), Sheilas K. Chilala (Mulungushi University, Zambia), Ireen Moonga (Mulungushi University, Zambia)and Audrey Muyuni (Mulungushi University, Zambia)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Revisioning and Reconstructing Higher Education After Global Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shalin Hai-Jew (Hutchinson Community College, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5934-8.ch007

Keywords: Government & Law / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Policy & Reform

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The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected people's health and wellbeing and stretched their coping capacities with potential for multiple long-term psychosocial effects. Social interactions were inexorably affected if not altered. Education was probably the second most affected despite the young age-group due to the large number of people involved – teachers and supporting staff. Most low-income countries of Africa have young populations, which may explain the relatively low COVID-19 mortality rates on the continent. The focus in this chapter is higher education in the aftermath of the pandemic. The authors discuss how higher education institutions (HEIs) in the countries under discussion navigated the pandemic and remodelled to attain their objectives during and after the pandemic. They argue that the pandemic had enduring negative and positive effects. They conclude that although digitisation in learning and teaching in HEIs was underway, the pandemic accelerated its uptake.

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