Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) as organizations are facing changes in their formats and purposes. In particular, some authors name new formats as “The Neoliberal University” (Fleming, 2020), in which collegiality is facing the challenges of managerial controls. In this sense, in some HEIs, the number of administrative staff is growing whereas the number of professors is decreasing. The teaching load is growing to the detriment of research time. Moreover, distance learning (DL) and artificial intelligence are changing the methods of education and, hence, HEIs’ formats. For instance, Vitru (vitru.com.br) in Brazil with over 900k students in pure DL is probably the largest HEI of this kind in the world. We invited panellists from different regions of the world to discuss the impact of such challenges in HEIs in their own country/regions and to debate which are the pathways for impact in a precarious world.

25th September 16:00-17:30 CEST