Reflections on the public university sector and the covid-19 pandemic in South Africa

ABSTRACT

This paper is a personal reflection that seeks to capture most of the observable changes that have taken place in South Africa and in its public university system as a consequence of the sudden and global spread of the novel coronavirus. The purpose for doing so is to provide a record of how the South African university sector has responded to the covid-19 pandemic, based on the assumption that there have been a variety of national and sectoral responses to the unprecedented crisis.

KEYWORDS:

• Covid-19
• university
• higher education
• South Africa

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).