Our university has been really reluctant to reopen and it will be helpful to see other law school opening and just fun to see things finally return back to normal
Look around, pretty much everything is open except colleges, and I guess it goes without saying that social distancing and other norms are a necessary part of any such reopening activity
Necessary part and all are really nice things to say, but they don't really happen. Especially in cramped hostels and campuses. Everything is open? So all the people working from home still are figments of our imagination? Yes, some places have opened, arguably because there was not any choice, including economic choice. Colleges at this point are not part of that category. The only step that needs to be taken is to ensure that the people who are missing out on their studies because of lack of access can be provided with such access.
Our final year students have been back to the hostel since December citing multiple pretexts including placement needs. The classes are still taking place online though. No social distancing is being maintained properly within the hostel premises because the students find it too rigorous.
The uni has reopened for the final years from 15th Feb, and 1st Apr is the tentative date for all other batches. Don't know about NLUs, but our admin has issued no SOP or guidelines about reopening
It is reckless and irresponsible to open colleges before universal vaccination. It may lead to a super spreader event and again make India's Covid spike rise. Shame on any VC who is doing this. [...].
Easy to blame the VCs when they're being bombarded by email campaigns day in and day out begging for reopening, and local politicians put pressure to reopen to pretend everything is back to normal
Today's news headline is that the Brazilian and South African strains are spreading in India and may become resistant to vaccines. However, the idiot readers of this website are demanding campus reopening because they are "bored" at home. Their equally idiot parents are writing to VCs and pressurising them.
Let's be clear: COVID IS NOT OVER. CAMPUSES MUST NOT OPEN AS IT IS A RISK TO HUMAN LIFE. Our campuses do not have proper hygiene infrastructure to control Covid, while many students are also very unhygienic and reckless (don't wash hands, share booze from the same glass and smoke the same cigarette, play football in the mud, don't wash clothes etc).
It's high time VCs show a spine and keep campuses closed. Otherwise they should be ready to face police FIRs for negligence if the virus spreads in their campus.
Apparently a few of our faculty members have clearly told the admin that they won't be coming for physical classes until all the staff and students have been vaccinated and social distancing norms are enforced inside the campus. For a change, I happen to agree with them whole-heartedly.
This is today's news. NLUs being residential campus could be prone to mass infection. Online teaching learning this semester is only safe. Same true for other hostels.
Let's be clear: COVID IS NOT OVER. CAMPUSES MUST NOT OPEN AS IT IS A RISK TO HUMAN LIFE. Our campuses do not have proper hygiene infrastructure to control Covid, while many students are also very unhygienic and reckless (don't wash hands, share booze from the same glass and smoke the same cigarette, play football in the mud, don't wash clothes etc).
It's high time VCs show a spine and keep campuses closed. Otherwise they should be ready to face police FIRs for negligence if the virus spreads in their campus.
This is today's news. NLUs being residential campus could be prone to mass infection. Online teaching learning this semester is only safe. Same true for other hostels.