Challenges and Reforms in Gulf Higher Education Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic and Assessing Future Implications

Introduction

Part 1 - Understanding Regional Higher Education Reforms in a COVID-19 Context

Chapter 1

Potential Reforms in the GCC Higher Education Post COVID-19

Chapter 2

Pandemic Upsurge: Insights from Higher Education Reforms in the Gulf

Chapter 3

Toward a Self-Sustainable Higher Education Quality Assurance System: NFCFFE Model for Higher Education Quality Improvement and Assurance

Chapter 4

Pandemic Challenges of Higher Education: Reconsidering Core Values

Chapter 5

Higher Education in the COVID-19 Environment: ICT-based Perspective for GCC Countries

Chapter 6

Application of Risk Management on COVID-19 by Universities in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)

Chapter 7

Directions in Gulf Higher Education: Conclusion

Part 2 - Reframing Higher Education Reforms

Chapter 8

An Empirical Analysis of Oman's Public and Private HEI Students' Behavioural Intention (BI) in Using E-learning during COVID-19

Chapter 9

Transforming Online Teaching of a First-Year Business Course: An Autoethnographic Reflection of Managing Teaching and Learning amidst the Pandemic in the Gulf Region

Chapter 10

University of Buraimi in Oman: Pandemic Lessons and Initiatives for Education Reform from Instructors' Perspectives

Chapter 11

The Role of Internal Crisis Communication on Faculty Members' Implementation of Blended Learning Practices in the Gulf

Chapter 12

Impact of Job-related Stress on Professional and Personal Life during Coronavirus Pandemic

Chapter 13

COVID-19 and the New Normal: Re-Imagining the Future of Higher Education

Chapter 14

Gulf Higher Education Reforms vis-à-vis the Pandemic: Conclusion