TIRANA, Nov 2 /ATA/ Universities countrywide start on Monday the new academic year which, due to the ruling of the Experts’ Committee, will be conducted online rather than in the faculty auditoriums as part of the measures to contain the spread of the pandemic.
According to the above-mentioned ruling, all universities will switch to online teaching at least in the first month of this academic year.
About 21 thousand first -year students will also learn online. The lectures for the sophomores of public and non-public universities will go online either.
Meanwhile, online teaching was applied at the end of previous academic year as part of the restrictive measures and lockdown imposed due to the pandemic outbreak.
”New academic year will be an unprecedented challenge for our universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however our universities have taken all the precautionary measures to ensure an uninterrupted teaching process,” Minister of Education and Sport, Evis Kushi, said while wishing a successful year to all students.
Meanwhile, the rector of Tirana University, Artan Hoxha, has assured that all measures are in place to guarantee a smooth running of new academic year which will be conducted online until a second ruling.
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