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Higher education prepares for an upset return

2020-07-07T13:30:45.084Z


Alternating distance and on-site courses, financial aid for students to access digital technology… the establishments are preparing for several scenarios.


If certain prestigious foreign universities, such as Cambridge in Great Britain, have chosen distance courses for the whole year 2020-2021, they remain in the minority. The model promoted by French higher education should be that of a hybrid pedagogy, mixing “face-to-face” and “distance”.

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A new academic year circular must be published in the coming days to specify the new organizational arrangements for the establishments. The last one, published in mid-June, insists above all on the wearing of a systematic mask by everyone, since the rules of physical distance cannot be guaranteed. The text also insists on the “transitory” nature of distance learning. A mode which “frightens part of the teachers. Rightly or wrongly, many fear, in the long run, of job cuts, sales of buildings, etc., ” explains François Jacob, professor of letters at the University of Franche-Comté. "That

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Source: lefigaro

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