CONSEQUENCES OF THE CORONAVIRUS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION
Due to the sudden outbreak of a pandemic around the world, many different issues, which no one had thought about before, arose in particular in the field of higher education. First of all, the matter of further higher education existence as a social institution. In this regard, this article is aimed at identifying possible negative consequences for higher educational institutions and determining further development paths so that students can continue and successfully complete their education. In this regard, it was relevant for the authors of this article to refer to the experience of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, according to which the International Institute for Higher Education of this region prepared and published a report on the impact of COVID-19 on the sphere of higher education. The leading method in the study was the method of analysis and synthesis of the studied experience. The materials presented in the article make it possible to determine the short-term, medium-term and long-term prospects for the functioning of higher education institutions in a pandemic and summarize the potential risks for all participants of the educational process: students and future applicants, faculties, service personnel, as well as higher educational institutions with their infrastructure and technical capacities. The authors of the article tried to reveal the consequences of the temporary interruption of education, which in the medium term will lead to a drop in demand, and in the long term may affect the economies of countries as a whole, with a further increase in unemployment and the impoverishment of many families.