DU colleges to brush up Covid readiness – Times of India
The college is being reopened just for the ultimate 12 months college students and for programs with sensible courses. However, attendance is voluntary for the scholars. However, whereas DU has a big quantity of outstation college students, the SOP makes no point out of whether or not lodging can be supplied to them. Manoj Khanna, principal, Ramjas College, indicated that hostels wouldn’t be out there. “If any student wants to come for the practicals, they will have to figure out their own accommodation,” he stated.
A gathering was held on January 5 and 6 with the heads of colleges and departments. The word despatched to the establishments after that reads, “With the advent of the new year and the beginning of the new semester as well as the slowing down of the spread and intensity of the pandemic, it is pertinent to explore the possibilities (if any) of transiting into the blended online-offline mode of teaching and learning.” Some of DU’s suggestions to colleges: “Theory courses to be continued within the on-line mode until additional notification. Laboratory/sensible/ability/library and related actions could also be allowed between February 1 and March 31 in small numbers/batches by following all hygiene and security suggestions of the UGC pointers.
The month of January 2021 could also be used for the preparations and coaching of the instructing and non-instructing employees and for conducting mock-drills; the schedule for a similar might please be shared with the DSW Office. The bodily entry of the scholars must be fully voluntary and attendance of the scholars for a similar must be fully voluntary and never obligatory.”
Alongside, colleges have been suggested to kind their very own Covid taskforce with a minimum of one senior school member in it.
