Higher Education’s responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cape Verde. The case of the University of Santiago

Authors

  • Luís Filipe Rodrigues Universidade de Santiago, Cabo Verde

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25746/ruiips.v8.i4.21996

Keywords:

COVID-19, Higher Education, Cape Verde, Blended Learning; Educational Policies

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic led Higher Education institutions to readapt their practices, adapting their functioning to the new restrictions. In Cape Verde, this education subsystem plays an important role in national development, despite facing structural difficulties, the pandemic posed new challenges to the country's HEIs. In this article, the answers given by the University of Santiago, in the academic year 2019-2020 are presented. Its performance was based on four objectives: ensuring the safety of the entire academic community; include all students; respond to technological needs; and create a pedagogical model appropriate to the new reality. Despite the challenges, the safety of the community was guaranteed, ensuring the participation of more than 90% of students, thanks to the commitment to the renewal of technological structures and a teaching system adapted to the new reality, which opens up new fields of action and means a reinvention the role of Higher Education in the country.

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Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

Rodrigues, L. F. (2020). Higher Education’s responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Cape Verde. The case of the University of Santiago. Revista Da UI_IPSantarém, 8(4), 161–170. https://doi.org/10.25746/ruiips.v8.i4.21996

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 4 (2020): Thematic Edition: Exact Sciences and Engineering - Conference "Digital Transformation and Information Technologies in Pandemic Times"

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Papers

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