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No on-site operation due to energy prices? Bavarian University does not rule out virtual teaching

2022-08-10T04:56:09.248Z


No on-site operation due to energy prices? Bavarian University does not rule out virtual teaching Created: 2022-08-10 06:51 By: Katarina Amtmann No full lecture halls in Passau in winter? The university is currently not ruling out virtual teaching. (Iconic image) © Uwe Anspach/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++ Are some students in Bavaria threatened with virtual teaching again after Corona? A univ


No on-site operation due to energy prices?

Bavarian University does not rule out virtual teaching

Created: 2022-08-10 06:51

By: Katarina Amtmann

No full lecture halls in Passau in winter?

The university is currently not ruling out virtual teaching.

(Iconic image) © Uwe Anspach/dpa +++ dpa picture radio +++

Are some students in Bavaria threatened with virtual teaching again after Corona?

A university cannot currently rule out the move.

Passau - Many students who started their studies in 2020 have not seen the inside of a lecture hall for a long time due to the corona pandemic.

Face-to-face events were not possible.

Now comes the next problem: rising energy prices.

In the worst case, could students therefore sit together again virtually in winter?

Uni Passau: No attendance due to the gas crisis and energy prices?

At least that could happen in Passau: Students at the University of Passau could again be forced to attend lectures from home in the winter semester - this time not because of Corona, but because of the impending gas shortage.

The university management recently wrote to its students that the war in Ukraine is also affecting the university in the form of massively increased energy costs.

"Against this background, the 2022/2023 winter semester is characterized by uncertainty with regard to the heat and power supply - and thus also to the question of whether and how we will be able to maintain face-to-face operations."

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Uni Passau: Virtual teaching is a step “that we want to avoid as much as possible”

When asked by the German Press Agency (dpa), a spokeswoman added that the path to virtual teaching would be a step "that we want to avoid as far as possible for didactic and psychosocial reasons." A task force is currently dealing with various scenarios, this one but depended to a large extent on which decisions were made by the state, according to the university.

The administration is also working on savings measures and precautions to ensure the longest possible energy supply.

The universities of Augsburg, Regensburg, Bamberg and Munich will remain – for the time being – with presence

Other Bavarian universities state that they are not dealing with a return to virtual teaching due to energy prices - at least not yet.

"The outstanding importance of university research and the high quality of academic teaching, both of which depend to a large extent on direct exchange, must be safeguarded even with rising energy costs," writes the University of Regensburg, for example, in response to a dpa request.

That is why one plans to enable research and teaching in presence.

This is what they want at the University of Augsburg, too, adding that “from our point of view, a digital semester only transfers heating costs to the students, i.e. a group that often has very little financial means and is already very under the digital semesters in the Pandemic has suffered.” The Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg also wants to continue with on-site operations and justifies this with lessons learned from the pandemic.

Munich's Ludwig-Maximilians-University and the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg want to teach on-site - in Munich the decision to have on-site teaching has "so far" not been revised, it is said, in Bamberg on-site teaching is "currently" out of the question placed.

Energy saving measures in Middle Franconia

In order to save energy, the city of Nuremberg is closing three of its four indoor swimming pools.

The outdoor pool season is now being extended until September 25th

Saving energy at Bavaria's universities

But even with face-to-face teaching, the universities are thinking about how they can save energy.

This involves, for example, limiting room temperatures or raising awareness among employees and students.

Much is still being worked out at the moment.

Specifically, the University of Augsburg, for example, decided to close its buildings for two weeks at the turn of the year.

(came/dpa)

In order to save gas and electricity, Würzburg takes numerous measures.

According to the third mayor, there is also a "consequential" one.

Source: merkur

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