Covid-19 Management and Responses: Lessons Learnt for the Future

René Pellissier

अप्रैल 2023 · African Sun Media

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When the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC, South Africa) decided to develop a book on Covid-19 management and responses, higher education was in the midst of its endeavours to manage how we respond to this threat to ensure academic continuity and integrity. Universities mostly followed their own strategies and initiatives reactively, having little time to be proactive. At this point, most higher education institutions have steadied their approaches to teaching and learning and to managing their university services in response to the threat. There is clear evidence that the world as we knew it and in which our practices had been developed, has changed, and will continue to do so with increasing threats and demands on our higher education systems. This book provides the collaborative approaches from a range of academic practitioners and managers to develop some mental model of the practices we adopted and possible lessons learnt in the process. 

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René Pellissier is Professor of Research and Innovation and works as a strategist, researcher and systems engineer in the international arena based on her extensive international experience at universities in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and across Africa. She is a futurist and consultant specialising in the world of future work based on the evolution of technology and the resultant societal changes and needs. She heads the Higher Education Leadership Development (HELD) activities at the Cape Higher Education Consortium (CHEC, South Africa), which includes the design and management of management capacity development activities for the four CHEC universities, i.e. the (new) Creating the Executive-Edge senior leadership development programme, the Creating the Leading-Edge management capacity development programme, the CHEC Critical Conversations and, coming 2023, CHEC Master classes. She heads an international Climate Change and Sustainable Development project for South African Development Community (SADC). She holds an MSc in Mathematical Statistics, an MBA, and a PhD in Systems Engineering.