We were witnesses to the COVID-19 pandemic, which left enormous consequences not only on individual lives but across all areas. Tertiary education system faced significant challenges, prohibitions, measures, and the shift from in-person teaching to digital formats. This master's thesis focuses on tertiary education, its funding, and the measures that affected the implementation of teaching at higher education institutions in Slovenia, Germany, and Sweden. The aim of the thesis is to present collected information on the measures adopted during the pandemic, compare the higher education funding systems, and analyze similar and different measures in Slovenia, Germany, and Sweden. Findings indicate that all three countries faced certain challenges such as technical issues, student funding or assistance (many students lost additional income), restrictions on exams and lectures, student mobility, changes in interaction between professors and students, etc. The measures implemented by the countries were mostly similar, indicating that the countries responded in a similar manner. Some differences observed in the measures include: student loan options, extended enrollment application deadlines, varying durations of the measures' validity, etc. The thesis will contribute to the field due to its topic, analysis, and comparison of measures, the impact of the pandemic, while also addressing possibilities to improve crisis preparedness, changes in educational practices, societal impact, innovation, and development. The research work encountered limitations due to the lack of presented analyses and assessments of the impact of measures on higher education.
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