In the early January, for two weeks, only the exams will take place on the premises, announced the president of the university, Eric Berton.
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Save the exam session of the month of January: This is the objective pursued by Eric Berton, President of Aix-Marseille University (AMU), one of the largest in France with its 80,000 students. In order to release rooms and allow tests by respecting a distancing of a student every three places, the establishment gives up physically to welcome the students for the lectures and directed works that had to be held between the 3rd and the January 17, 2022.
Only practical work and field outflows will be maintained, including in the Faculty of Science, as well as business and laboratory internships. Also exempted from distance education, doctoral students and healthy students, from the second year (medicine, mateuking, odontology, pharmacy, physiotherapy).
“We make the choice to anticipate the back to school rather than waiting for new potential information during the end-of-year holidays, justifies Eric Berton in a message addressed Monday, December 13 to staff, teachers and students. And this, to allow us to come back as soon as possible on campuses, safely. “
This decision is “very limited and reasonable, since there is no campus closure and that students in digital divide will be welcomed on site”, comments on the President of the University to the World . Of the 80,000 students, 35,000 will be affected by these remote courses. “The others have their exams at that time and therefore, by definition, no work or lectures,” he recalls. “It is my responsibility to preserve the good health of the students as well as the good examination of the exams and, through it, the employability of the students, insists Eric Berton. To enhance a diploma against an employer, the exams must be have passed in the most usual conditions possible. “
Avoid the end of the end 2020
University presidents all attend the great confusion that has reigned a year ago. After the closure of the establishments due to the containment started at the end of October 2020, they had received from the Ministry of Higher Education on December 19, on the first day of the Christmas holidays, instructions to organize in early January the return to group presential Of ten students “in fragility” and the resumption of directed work (TD) in half-gauge for the first years. Table exam sessions had been disrupted even canceled and finally spent remotely, with sometimes big bugs computer platforms.
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