CReAM is co-organising the The Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE) 2020 Job Market event. The event is taking place on 10-11 December 2020 on zoom.

A panel on “COVID19 and Higher Education” is also taking place as part of this year’s AASLE 2020 Job Market Event. The panel will take place on 10th December at 9:30 GMT/17:30 Singapore time. Below is the description of the panel:

Chair: Christian Dustmann (AASLE President, University College London & CReAM)

Panellists:

Hanming Fang (ShanghaiTech University & University of Pennsylvania)

Stephen Machin (LSE)

Abigail Payne (The University of Melbourne)

Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim University)

The current crisis induced by the worldwide spread of COVID19 has had dramatic effects on education. The closure of schools, the difficulty of what will happen with exams, and ongoing challenges to both teachers and pupils in maintaining education amid uncertainties induced through the ongoing health crisis are huge. These have already exacerbated existent inequalities in educational attainments. The crisis has also had huge effects on higher education, both for students as well as educational institutions. Being a highly international and global sector, the closure of borders and internal travel restrictions are having a stark impact on the sector. The uncertainty about the future course of the health crisis has made meaningful planning of budgets and educational services extremely difficult, and the dramatic impact the crisis had on the economy creates an extremely challenging job market for university graduates on all levels. Despite the hardship already caused, the crisis is far from over, and restrictions will impact on higher education institutions for the foreseeable future, and most likely into the longer term.

This panel will discuss some of the key issues that affect higher education institutions as well as students: How long will the crisis last? What will be the effect on higher education institutions? How will learning losses of pupils and their unequal distribution affect university intake, and how should universities respond to that in their admission policies? How will this year’s JM for PhD candidates be affected, and will there be some normalisation in the near future? How will universities and their funding models respond to this crisis? Will the crisis be differently felt in Europe, the US and the Asia/Pacific region? Should policy interventions be made? And if so, how and in what directions?

Access to the panel is open to all. If you wish to attend please register here and you will receive your personalised link to join.
 

You can find all the related information on the event’s website.