Education

Faces of 2022: Who shaped higher education headlines this year

From Times Higher Education: “Fedir Shandor. Within the first few months of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, it is believed that almost 1,000 academics signed up to fight and protect their homeland. Many of them, including Fedir Shandor, a professor of tourism and hospitality at Uzhhorod National University, joined the war effort on 24 February – the very day Vladimir Putin started his attack. But having worked at the university for almost 30 years, Professor Shandor was not going to let his new role stand in the way of his teaching commitments. He has been continuing to conduct his classes online, from the front line, with an image of him working remotely from the trenches used by media outlets around the world.”

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