Due to the pandemic, and the contagious nature of the disease, educationists believe that hybrid learning will be the way to move forward which basically is an amalgamation of online and offline learning.
According to a report in Times of India, Anil Sahasrabudhe, chairman, All-India Council for Technical Education iterated the same adding that calling all the students at the same time to the educational institutes will not only put them in danger but will further burden the health infrastructure. He further said that the theory classes for the students will continue to happen online as the practical classes will be held in batches.
Moreover, while most institutions await the SOPs, some colleges are trying to embrace the new way forward. Madhu Nair, former dean of commerce, Mumbai University, said “Even when institutes re-open, only 50 per cent of students may be willing to travel to colleges. This group can be split into two and called on alternate dates.”
On the other hand, on December 2, the Bombay University and College Teachers’ Union (BUCTU) requested the vice-chancellor of Mumbai University (MU) to postpone the first-year degree college exams.
As per reports, the degree college teachers have suggested that the first-year examinations be postponed to end of January 2021, adding that that the university release an official circular as soon as possible. This comes in less than two weeks after the organisation, in their previous letter, claimed that several colleges have not managed to teach the mandatory 90 days before the examinations a result of the delay in admissions to first-year courses which makes it impossible to hold the examinations in the month of December.
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