After an attendance test at Ansbach University, a student tested positive for Corona.
Now there is criticism as to why assessments cannot be provided online.
Ansbach
- not just schools and day care centers are in Bavaria from the
* Corona
-Crisis
affected.
Those who have opted for higher education will also have to
live
with the
effects of the pandemic
.
Online lectures and video conferences are now part of everyday life for the students.
It is all the more surprising that many
universities
and
colleges
hold exams in face-to-face form.
In
Ansbach
, this approach has now taken revenge.
Corona case in Ansbach: Students have to be quarantined after the exam
Last week, on Friday (January 22nd),
a written exam took
place in a lecture hall at
Ansbach University
.
98 people took part in the performance assessment.
All in compliance with the
distance
rules
and the
mask requirement
, as the university emphasizes.
However, a test after the exam revealed that a student was
infected
with
Corona *
.
As a precaution, all other participants had to go into
quarantine
.
"In order to rule out further sources of infection, after the test became known, all 98 participants went into a 14-day quarantine," said Michael Lang, press spokesman for Ansbach University, in an interview with
nordbayern.de
.
After the incident became known, voices were of course raised as to why
tests
even had to be carried out on site and not online
during Corona * times
.
Press spokesman Lang said: "Especially with large courses,
offering an online exam is
difficult, since countless different variants of a task are necessary and it would be difficult to rule out misunderstandings." They are trying
to reduce
the number of
face-
to-
face exams
and offer different types of exams.
Corona case in Ansbach: Examination time has just started
On the homepage of the university there is at least a detailed description of how to
counter
the
risk of infection
with Corona.
Tests
should only take place in sufficiently large rooms with ventilation options.
The hygiene conditions should be strictly observed.
However,
there are
classroom exams
not only at Ansbach University.
The
examination phase
for the winter semester 2020/21 has
just started
.
So it cannot be ruled out that infected students at other universities will also take exams.
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