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      The impact of COVID‐19 on the UK publishing industry: Findings and opportunity

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          Key points

          • Challenges of the current environment are balanced by opportunities – more digital delivery, more efficient systems, greater collaboration.

          • Consumption has not reduced, but delivery mechanisms need adaptation to ensure the right products in the right media are offered and delivered.

          • Changes to the cost base by redeploying staff and rethinking premises are underway and support improved resource allocation.

          • Leadership is required to accommodate adaptive and flexible remote working.

          • Ensuring access and implementing licences that permit non‐commercial use is both a moral and a practical response.

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          COVID-19 and digital disruption in UK universities: afflictions and affordances of emergency online migration

          COVID-19 has caused the closure of university campuses around the world and migration of all learning, teaching, and assessment into online domains. The impacts of this on the academic community as frontline providers of higher education are profound. In this article, we report the findings from a survey of n = 1148 academics working in universities in the United Kingdom (UK) and representing all the major disciplines and career hierarchy. Respondents report an abundance of what we call ‘afflictions’ exacted upon their role as educators and in far fewer yet no less visible ways ‘affordances’ derived from their rapid transition to online provision and early ‘entry-level’ use of digital pedagogies. Overall, they suggest that online migration is engendering significant dysfunctionality and disturbance to their pedagogical roles and their personal lives. They also signpost online migration as a major challenge for student recruitment, market sustainability, an academic labour-market, and local economies.
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            Covid‐19 and UK Universities

            Abstract Universities UK (UUK) has suggested that there may be very significant losses to higher education as a consequence of Covid‐19. However, losses are likely to be substantially lower than the potential losses estimated by UUK. But the magnitude of losses is very uncertain. The UUK’s proposal to restrict undergraduate enrolment per university to stop institutions poaching students is not in the interests of the most highly regarded universities, or that of students. Some rationalisation of the sector should be the price of further government support. Now is also the time to reconsider how university research is funded.
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                Contributors
                jeremy@maverick-os.com
                Journal
                Learn Publ
                Learn Publ
                10.1002/(ISSN)1741-4857
                LEAP
                Learned Publishing
                John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Chichester, UK )
                0953-1513
                1741-4857
                18 January 2021
                January 2021
                : 34
                : 1 ( doiID: 10.1002/leap.v34.1 )
                : 43-48
                Affiliations
                [ 1 ] Maverick Publishing Specialists Ltd Corfe Castle UK
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2897-4574
                Article
                LEAP1363
                10.1002/leap.1363
                8014834
                3b08a584-2477-4450-b355-8350f1e5f3e4
                © 2021 The Author. Learned Publishing © 2021 ALPSP

                This article is being made freely available through PubMed Central as part of the COVID-19 public health emergency response. It can be used for unrestricted research re-use and analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source, for the duration of the public health emergency.

                History
                : 20 November 2020
                : 24 September 2020
                : 23 November 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 1, Tables: 0, Pages: 6, Words: 4141
                Categories
                Industry Update
                Industry Update
                Custom metadata
                2.0
                January 2021
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