COVID-19’S IMPACT ON MACEDONIAN HIGHER EDUCАTION - ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES ENTREPRENEURIAL ENOUGH?

The paper gives theoretical view of impact of Covid-19 on higher education in Macedonia. Covid-19 outbreak has essentially brought to the surface all the anomalies and strengths of the universities’ work up to now and the management of their resources. Analyzing the case study - Goce Delchev University, as a positive and successful example, we can conclude that the entrepreneurial orientation in management of universities is crucial for successful coping with the crisis. By March 2020, more than 4,400 students and 360 lecturers were actively using Microsoft 365 tools to access, learn, and share content, making Goce Delchev, one of the universities in Macedonia shift to a remote educational environment, aligning students with the demands of increasingly digitized world. The paper instigates мany questions for higher education: What are the new teaching methods, tools and formats that have been emerging so far? Which of these will remain after the pandemic? How are universities counterbalancing this “loss” and how will internationalization be reshaped in the months and years to come? Can universities turn this into an opportunity?