Politics of Higher Education Marketisation

COVID-19大流行对研究、会议和面对面会议旅行的实用性的持续影响阻碍了进展。由于需要在2022年10月之前紧急完成一个由欧盟伊拉斯谟+计划资助的多国合作项目，但该项目也因大流行而受到严重干扰，情况变得更加复杂。这种干扰使KAKEN项目的进展停滞了几个月。后来在2022年5月，我能够推进基于桌面的研究，研究国际高等教育市场的最新发展，因为它从大流行导致的边境关闭中出现，以及在这个人工智能和虚拟内容交付的数字时代，关于大学校园未来的当代辩论。

Progress was hampered by the continuing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the practicalities of travel for research and conferences and face-to-face meetings. It was further complicated by the need to finalise urgently by October 2022 a multi-country collaborative project funding through the EU’s Erasmus+ program, but which has also been much disrupted by the pandemic. That distraction stalled progress of this KAKEN project for some months. Later in AY2022 I was able to progress desk-based research on the most recent developments in international higher education market as it emerges from the pandemic-induced border closures, and contemporary debates over the future of the university campus in this digital age of Ai and virtual delivery of content.