Sapienza, Statale di Milano, Trento and beyond: how do universities start up?
What happens in universities struggling with the reopening
Classrooms 50% full and distance learning to reach out-of-office. After schools, universities are also ready to reopen their doors.
In Trento, face-to-face lessons have already begun and distancing and safety are guaranteed via the app.
Technology and continuous monitoring of personnel for the University of Padua, while Milan still prefers distance learning.
La Sapienza in Rome cuts out all "fragile" professors.
Here are all the details.
MIXED MODEL
Let's start from the restart that the minister of the University Gaetano Manfredi wished in an interview with Sky news 24 : “The face-to-face lessons are resuming in all the universities: some have started, most of them resume next Monday; there is a mixed model that provides for a 50% occupancy of the classrooms and at the same time distance learning to reach out-of-home and foreigners but also those who are unable to follow the lessons for various reasons ", said the minister .
PRIORITY A SERIAL NUMBER
There will be face-to-face lessons for freshmen, who are starting their university career these days and who still know little about the academic world.
“We have tried to give priority to freshmen who need a more robust guide but we are trying to ensure maximum safety by living with the pandemic”, added Manfredi.
MANDATORY MASKS
The presence presupposes the obligation of a mask : “We have imposed the use of the mask also during the lessons: it is a nuisance but the numbers in the classrooms are important. All the classrooms have been wired to ensure a quality service ”, explained the University Minister.
EXAMINATIONS IN PRESENCE
If the lessons are inspired by a mixed model, the minister speaks of presence in the classroom for exams, but there are exceptions.
“From September – added Manfredi – all the exams will be in attendance but many students ask to be able to take exams at a distance, many are using the mixed modality in which the student can choose how to take the exam. Universities have opened study rooms and libraries, everything that can be done to ensure didactic continuity has been done ".
NO CONTRACTION OF REGISTRATIONS
The new rules and uncertainty about the Covid pandemic did not lead, explains the minister, to a drop in enrollments: "The numbers of the past made us fear a decline in university enrollments but the intervention of the state – almost half of students pay no fees or pay a minimum – has meant that the data says that the reduction in enrollments and enrollments is not there. However, we will have the consolidated data in October. It is a source of satisfaction, it is the best way to have hope and look to the future ”, he added.
WHAT HAPPENS TO WISDOM
Manfredi's directives seem to have been interpreted in a different way at Sapienza University of Rome, where, writes Italia Oggi , "on the modalities of the imminent resumption of didactic activity under Covid-19, the highest academic authorities would have decided to start lessons in contrast with the provisions of the law for the health emergency ".
Not only. La Sapienza has already imposed remote work on administrative staff, especially the "fragile" one, but on teachers "the top management of the university has imposed a diktat: either they hold the lesson in physical presence, or they give themselves sick, thus excluding the possibility of doing remote lessons. And this also applies to teachers in a condition of "frailty", formally attested to them by the Center for Occupational Medicine of the same university ", adds Italia Oggi .
IN MILAN TEACHING IS FROM A DISTANCE
A different interpretation also in Milan, where, as claimed by Emma Creola, 21, and studying law at the Statale, the lessons are still held at a distance, in fact.
“In the State, as in many other universities, but not all, they resume courses for freshmen with a mixed teaching method. In any case, it will be guaranteed to those who are not in Milan or in any case to those who cannot attend the lessons. But, with the exception of first-year students and very few optional courses, in reality, mixed teaching is not mixed but is remote. And this is something that has not been fully clarified by the university, ” the student said in an interview with Open .
“There was talk of mixed teaching until the end of August and therefore obviously everyone made their own considerations. Many returned to the city thinking that they could have attended the courses, booking in time. In reality, this was absolutely not the case. For example, for my degree course there are no face-to-face lessons ", Emma Creola specified, adding:" The oral exams will continue at a distance, the written exams actually seem to start again in the presence, while taking into account the needs of outsiders. headquarters that will not return to Milan. So they will most likely be mixed. Another contradiction ".
TECHNOLOGY AND SCREENING IN PADUA
Among the universities ready to reopen their doors is that of Padua, which promises tests and monitoring software.
The University is “a physical place of knowledge and of people who meet, motivated by the desire for science and knowledge. To do this, security is needed at the moment, because the pandemic has not ended ”, said the rector of Unipd, Rosario Rizzuto.
And just to ensure safety as well as spacing and masks, explains Rizzuto, “We also wanted to do something more. We wanted to implement active surveillance on all university staff, reserving them a very precise non-invasive screening, because it is based on molecular diagnosis: it is a salivary swab that will allow our staff to be checked every 20 days, just like the healthcare staff ".
TRENTO: ENTER WITH APP
A lot of technology also for the University of Trento, where the elections have already restarted in attendance . The University can only be accessed for the limited hours of their lessons and each student must check-in and check-out via the UniTrentoApp app which must be installed on their smartphone.
Not only. In order to guarantee distancing and avoid gatherings, the University of Trento has devised a Qr-Code that will indicate to students the diversified access and exit routes.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/sapienza-statale-di-milano-trento-e-non-solo-come-ripartono-le-universita/ on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:13:28 +0000.