LONDON: Britain's Cambridge University became one of the first in the world on Wednesday (May 20) to announce that all its lectures would be ...
"Given that it is likely that social distancing will continue to be required, the university has decided there will be no face-to-face lectures during the next academic year," the university said in a statement."We must all be realistic ... about the world-wide challenges posed by the pandemic," the university's vice-chancellor Stephen Toope said in a statement last week.
California State University decided last week to make fall term classes virtual, one of the first in the United States to do so, amid fears of a second wave of infections. Britain's universities minister said earlier this month that institutions could still charge the full tuition fee of £9,250 pounds as long as they maintained high standards of online teaching.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the university watchdog Office for Students, told lawmakers on Monday that students needed to know what education they would be offered before they accepted places. "What we don't want to see are promises that it's all going to be back to usual – an on-campus experience – when it turns out that's not the case," she said.
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