Parental involvement in Higher Education: trend or post-pandemic syndrome?

Abstract The pandemic and the resulting transformation of the educational process at universities have affected the involvement of students’ parents in Higher Education. This paper focuses on the policies governing the interaction between universities and the parent community, as well as their impact. We used data from Russian sociological surveys of parents of full-time Higher Education students and identified the importance of the role of parents in achieving quality educational outcomes and forms of possible interaction between universities and parents. It provides the basis for the revision of university policies and the creation of new practices for involving the parent community in the development of higher education.