Some universities are starting to bring back students for certain subjects such as medicine in which teaching is considered essential.
Polytechnic University will next month become the first of Hong Kong’s higher education institutions to bring at least some students back to campus for face-to-face teaching considered essential for certain subjects.
Most of the city’s eight publicly-funded universities said they would carry out online learning for the rest of the second term or until further notice after classes were suspended in February as the coronavirus epidemic grew.
The University of Hong Kong’s medicine faculty also plans to resume some essential face-to-face small group teaching but not until May at the earliest.
Both PolyU and HKU will require students to wear surgical masks during classes to be conducted in low-density settings.
PolyU told students and staff in an email on Monday that limited on-campus face-to-face activities would be allowed from April 6, as certain types of activities including practicum, clinical skills training, hands-on laboratory and studio sessions were essential to fully achieve learning outcomes in some subjects.
We are all left wondering just how long it will be until life can get back to normal. Stay safe everyone.
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