Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on higher education: Student perspectives from Mainland China and Hong Kong
Author(s): Mamtaj Azmi
Abstract: The COVID-19 epidemic has shaped more than half of our lives, canceling plans, enhancing livelihoods and causing feelings of grief, stress and anxiety. The study critically examines how students in Mainland China and Hong Kong envision foreign studies planning against the COVID-19 crisis. Among 2739 respondents, 84% showed no interest in studying abroad after the epidemic. For those respondents who will continue further degrees abroad, Asian regions and countries, notably Hong Kong, Japan and Taiwan, are listed in the top five, in addition to the US and the UK. While the epidemic has significantly reduced international student mobility, it is also changing the mobility flow of international students, and East Asian countries and regions are facing greater opportunities in the increasingly competitive higher education sector for international students. This article also suggests that the current global health crisis will intensify social and economic disparities in various higher education systems, when some countries fail to maintain international learning scales due to various economic recovery paces in the COVID-19 era.
Mamtaj Azmi. Impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on higher education: Student perspectives from Mainland China and Hong Kong. Int J Adv Acad Stud 2020;2(2):319-322. DOI: 10.33545/27068919.2020.v2.i2d.1003
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