Challenges of Higher Education in the post-pandemic

One of the fundamental challenges of higher education that became more visible as a result of the pandemic is to overcome the digital divide, facing economic obstacles and various types of social discrimination that allow the phenomenon of exclusion to be reduced.

On the one hand, it is about strengthening spaces in various formats and modes of participation for reflection and dialogue between people and communities at a local and global level. And on the other, to consolidate, energize and expand cultural diversity in a permanently transforming academic environment (ONU, 2021b).

It is not only necessary to promote adequate training and the achievement of skills, but also to expand and consolidate the space for research, innovation, social transformation and the use of knowledge beyond academic borders. Added to this is the need for education to be effectively intercultural, in such a way that the scientific community and in general the learning community is increasingly broad and accommodates the various social sectors, in such a way that knowledge is assumed as a common good.

Another challenge is to achieve a balanced level between offers and individual training needs. The personalization of teaching must be a fundamental task, since it is an education that must be tailored to the needs of the individual and not rigidly subject to the training plans offered by higher education institutions. In this context, the transversality between the disciplines cannot be guided only by the opinion of the experts; It is not a training experience that is decreed through training programs, but must also respond to the personal and social development that the increasingly complex dimension of knowledge entails, seen as an organic experience of inclusion (ONU, 2020b). .

This topic discussed by our consultant Ana Beatriz Martínez, is part of some of the research carried out by the #Asesórate team.