COVID-19 Special Section: Introduction. Emerging from the pandemic: Can the future be resilient, proactive, and sustainable?

This introduction to the Special Section on COVID-19 experiences, impact, and implications for higher education emphasises the importance of recognising the opportunities and challenges posed by the pandemic experience, especially through emergency remote teaching and learning arrangements, and outlines various studies conducted to pinpoint recommendations for future action within higher education. The conclusions reached reinforce the notion that solutions are context-dependant and culture-specific; still, a high degree of transferability is exhibited across the four continents represented in the Special Section.