44% students want changes in education due to Covid to stay
Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com
25.01.2022
New Delhi: 86% of Indian students think that access to digital content has changed the way they learn and 56% think that the way they study will not go back to how it was pre-pandemic. According to a survey, globally 44% of Gen Y and Gen Z respondents expect changes brought in by Covid-19 to become permanent.
A new EY report, ‘Are Universities of the Past Still the Future’, argues that universities in advanced economies are facing a number of existential issues in the wake of the pandemic. Based on EY’s analysis about the future of the higher education sector and 29 interviews with university leaders from the US, UK, India, Singapore and Australia, the report finds that universities will quickly need to adapt to a new reality due to demographic shifts, geopolitical challenges, changing workplace demands and high student expectations for a quality digital experience.
As per the report, changing attitudes and behaviours toward digital and emerging technologies present new opportunities for universities across the globe to reinvent learning delivery. The generation of students coming through are digital natives. While 77% of the of the Gen Y and Gen Z respondents to the global survey said that the way they use technology changed during the pandemic, this proportion is higher in emerging economies (88% in Indonesia, 86% in India and 85% in Brazil) as against 66% in Scandinavia and 67% in France.
Globally 45% of the Gen Y and Gen Z respondents think that the way they study will not go back to how it was pre-pandemic, which again is higher in emerging economies (56% in India and 55% in Brazil) as against Western Europe (32% in France and 35% in Scandinavia). According to the findings of the survey, “Universities are moving to make quality digital learning a part of their core offering. Some are partnering with online learning platforms. ”
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