Post-Covid-19 Higher Education Scenarios and Future Strategic Orientations of Education

kalavani, khalil; Dehnavieh, Reza; Emadi, samira

doi:10.18502/jmed.v16i2.7147

Volume 16, Issue 2 (Summer 2021) jmed 2021, 16(2): 142-143 | Back to browse issues page

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kalavani K, Dehnavieh R, Emadi S. Post-Covid-19 Higher Education Scenarios and Future Strategic Orientations of Education. jmed 2021; 16 (2) :142-143
URL: http://jmed.ssu.ac.ir/article-1-1231-en.html

Post-Covid-19 Higher Education Scenarios and Future Strategic Orientations of Education

Khalil Kalavani

, Reza Dehnavieh

, Samira Emadi ^*

MSc of Management, School of Management, Department of Governmental Management, Management and Leadership Research Center in Education, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran. , samiraemadi_1361@yahoo.com

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The COVID-19 epidemic profoundly influenced higher education. Online education started immediately after the onset of the epidemic, but professors and universities were unprepared for it. This crisis will have a great impact on higher education in the coming years, too. While the severity of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis is still unknown, higher education institutions are figuring out the future of this industry and taking extraordinary steps to deal with future events. Four scenarios including "growth", "constraints", "collapse", and "transformation" can be considered for the future of higher education, each having a strategic orientation as follows: 1) evolution (growth scenario): growth and development strategy; 2) alignment with changes (constraints scenario): heterogeneous diversity and strategy involvement; 3) failure of universities (collapse scenario): reduction, transfer, and dissolution; and 4) initiation of a major change (transformation scenario): market penetration strategy and horizontal integration.

Keywords: Scenario, Higher Education, Covid-19, Strategic Orientations

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Type of Study: letter to editor | Subject: Medical Education
Received: 2021/07/31 | Accepted: 2021/08/4 | Published: 2021/09/11