The different Higher Education sectors have responded to the pandemic Covid-19 in different ways.
Some higher education sectors have been severely damaged, while others have used this crisis as an opportunity to reform their educational and administrative systems.
In Australia, there is a huge debate about the need to assess the deficiencies in the higher education systems to formulate reforms and solutions.
In the United Kingdom, there are calls to create urgent financial plans to cope with a loss of 230,000 international students, according to the Guardian.
Such responses prove that the pandemic Covid-19 offers the higher education sectors an opportunity to conduct further internal assessments to improve their practices, policies, and systems.
In the local context, the different higher education sectors have an invaluable opportunity to assess their different methods of teaching and administrative procedures and policies in Bahrain.
The pandemic has imposed a new situation in the higher education sectors in Bahrain, which requires further engagement with virtual education.
Being a new experience, many teachers and professors have been partying against virtual and electronic education for a while.
Some educators believed that online education results in diluting courses and insufficient student engagement.
Others claimed that online education leads to more plagiarism and less student involvement and innovation.
However, as educators, we should remember that education in the 21st century has changed dramatically.
The goal of education is not to find knowledge because it is plenty today.
Instead, the role of education is how to construct knowledge by logically intersecting the different knowledge and theoretical frameworks to form solutions and theoretical frameworks in a certain field.
This objective can be sustained through virtual education when the exact mechanisms are implemented, such as quality assurance frameworks and further training on electronic teaching.
In short, despite the negative literature surrounding Covid-19, I think that it offers the higher education sectors to further reflections and assessment in Bahrain.
Indeed, this pandemic period can be used to generate further research on virtual education in the different higher education sectors in the kingdom.