Will COVID 19 Turn Higher Education into Another Mode?

Abstract

Many facts, figures and quantitative projections have come up assessing the gravity of post-COVID 19 downturn mostly from the angle of growth and hence obsessed with unknown threats to capital and compelling trade-offs. They all have anticipated economic and social consequences of the globally devastating healthcrisis, unprecedentedly severe. Experts think that it is going to turn the world into another techno-economic culture. Since higher education cannot be independent of the feature, structure and dynamics of the emerging alternative, let us try and have an overview of the evolving alternative system first. Various world organizations have opined that merely repairing the damage of the dominant economy will not help anymore and that it is inevitable to open up ecologically sustainable development paths leading to systemic change in the economy. Climate change-induced disasters, though hardly ever spread panic among people unlike pandemic, are going to be too serious for the planners to ignore the inevitability of the factor of ecological resilience in future development (Jones, 2020; Luhmann, 1989). However, such radical changes in the economy would not be state-driven, for their course is always bottom-up and people-driven. We should, therefore, look for indications in the survival struggle of the people during the crisis.