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Universities and colleges were in the middle of the second semester of their academicyear when the lockdown was enforced.There was anxiety, particularly about thegraduating batches of students, lest the ongoing session should be declared a ‘zerosemester’. This prompted a number of local initiatives. There were attempts from individual teachers to keep their students engaged. A few universities made arrangements for teachers to hold their classes virtually through video conferencing services such as Zoom. The transition to virtual modes was relatively less difficult for those institutions that had, even prior to the lockdown, adopted learning management system platforms. All the above were wellmeaning attempts to keep the core educational processes going through this period. Strategy to enhance enrolment? An April 13 report quoted the UGC Chairman as saying that to maintain social distancing,e­education was the only way out. This was clearly meant to prepare the higher education community for the exigencies of a protracted period of closure of campuses. However, close on the heels of this, he was also quoted as saying that online education was likely to be adopted as a strategy to enhance the gross enrolment ratio in higher education. This prompts many questions about the appropriateness of what may bean effective contingency measure to tide over the pandemic crisis to be deployed as along­term strategy for enhancing enrolment in higher education. One, how far will onlineeducation help support greater access to and success in higher education among thosewho are on the margins? Two, how equipped are digital forms of education to support thedepth and diversity of learning in higher education? Three, is there an unstated political motivation for this shift in strategy? Higher education has an influx of studentswho are first­generation aspirants. They have no cultural capital to bank on while struggling their way through college. Access is not merely enrolment. It also includes effective participation in curricular processes,which includes negotiating through language and social barriers. These students are also from the other side of the digital divide which makes them vulnerable to a doubledisadvantage if digital modes become the mainstay of education