1st Edition
Challenges and Reforms in Gulf Higher Education Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic and Assessing Future Implications
This edited volume explores the educational reforms and challenges in higher education in the Gulf countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Featuring a truly global spread of contributors and perspectives from countries such as Bahrain, India, Georgia, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, the book navigates experience-based and practice-linked research spectrum of the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education. It targets key challenges such as the move to online and distance learning, the impact of job-related stress, and the preparedness of institutional risk management. Using qualitative research, autoethnographic accounts, and case study findings, the book makes recommendations for reform implementation within higher education as well as discusses the wider socio-cultural and political landscape left by the pandemic in the Gulf region.
Highlighting current trends and challenges based on empirical works of the authors, the book will be of interest to scholars, researchers, and academics in the field of higher education, international and comparative education, and leadership strategy more specifically. Those involved with educational technology, education policy, and middle-eastern studies will also find the book of value.
Introduction
Part 1 – Understanding Regional Higher Education Reforms in a COVID-19
Context
Chapter 1
Potential Reforms in the GCC Higher Education Post COVID-19
Hajar Mahfoodh and Rabab Isa Saleh Almuqahwi
Chapter 2
Pandemic Upsurge: Insights from Higher Education Reforms in the Gulf
Muhammad Rehan Shaukat and Abdul Sami
Chapter 3
Toward a Self-Sustainable Higher Education Quality Assurance System: NFCFFE Model for Higher Education Quality Improvement and Assurance
Radha Krishan Sharma
Chapter 4
Pandemic Challenges of Higher Education: Reconsidering Core Values
Mariam Orkodashvili
Chapter 5
Higher Education in the COVID-19 Environment: ICT-Based Perspective for GCC Countries
Umara Noreen, Attayah Shafique, and Bello Musa Yakubu
Chapter 6
Application of Risk Management on COVID-19 by Universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)
Wan Norhayate Wan Daud, Fakhrul Anwar Zainol, Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan, and Joanna Soraya Abu Zahari
Chapter 7
Directions in Gulf Higher Education: Conclusion
John McAlaney and Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan
Part 2 – Reframing Higher Education Reforms
Chapter 8
An Empirical Analysis of Oman’s Public and Private HEIs Student's Behavioural Intention (BI) in Using
E-learning during COVID-19
Mohit Kukreti, Amitabh Mishra, and Vishal Jain
Chapter 9
Transforming Online Teaching of a First-Year Business Course: An Autoethnographic Reflection of Managing Teaching and Learning amidst the Pandemic in the Gulf Region
Mary Precy Aguilar-Lego and Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan
Chapter 10
University of Buraimi in Oman: Pandemic Lessons and Initiatives for Education Reform from Instructors’ Perspectives
Ibrahim Al Shamsi and Boumedyen Shannaq
Chapter 11
The Role of Internal Crisis Communication on Faculty Members Implementation of Blended
Learning Practices in the Gulf
Ridwan Adetunji Raji and Bahtiar Mohamad
Chapter 12
Impact of Job-related Stress on Professional and Personal Life during Coronavirus Pandemic
Vishal Jain, Amitabh Mishra, and Mohit Kukreti
Chapter 13
COVID-19 and the New Normal: Re-Imagining the Future of Higher Education
Khuram Shahzad, Muhammad Rehan Shaukat, and Syeeda Shafiya
Chapter 14
Gulf Higher Education Reforms vis-à-vis the Pandemic: Conclusion
Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan and John McAlaney
Biography
Reynaldo Gacho Segumpan is Professor and Dean, City Graduate School, City University Malaysia and Fellow, Higher Education Academy, UK.
John McAlaney is Chartered Psychologist and Professor in Psychology, Bournemouth University, UK.
