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Ontario’s colleges cancelled in-person classes in March and shifted to more online delivery to protect students and staff from COVID-19. Updated at 11:44 a.m. As much of the province begins to reopen after months of being shut down, Brockville’s St. Lawrence College campus has been cleared to start holding classes next month.The province announced this week that colleges and universities are allowed to reopen gradually starting in July, focusing at first on students who were not able to graduate due to COVID-19 closures.For those students, limited in-person education and training may restart next month, a move applauded by the local college’s president.“This is tremendous news for students and employers in key sectors who will need qualified people to help drive Ontario’s economic recovery,” Glenn Vollebregt, president and CEO of St. Lawrence College, said in a statement.He added the move will ensure more students will be able to complete their programs and get into the workforce sooner.“We’re very pleased with the government’s ongoing commitment to our students’ success and to the colleges’ continued delivery of high-quality programs.”The in-person instructions returning in July are for programs that are “critical to the current economy,” the college confirmed, including nursing, personal support work, engineering, child care, building construction and apprenticeship training in welding.Ontario’s colleges cancelled in-person classes in March and shifted to more online delivery to protect students and staff from COVID-19.Much of the economy was shut down at that time in an effort to thwart the spread of the virus, and though the pandemic is still ongoing, the province deemed that attempts to flatten the curve were successful enough to begin opening some sectors of society – including post-secondary education.The local college’s transition a few months ago to remote learning was very successful, college officials said, forcing them to find a “range of innovative ways to ensure students continued to receive high-quality programs.”But despite the rapid transition to virtual instruction, many programs simply couldn’t be done entirely from home.
“Our plans focus on the need to ensure the health of our community and the continuity of our courses and programs.”Similarly, Matthew Ramsey, a spokesperson at the University of British Columbia, told Global News that the institution has been “monitoring the situation since January” and that it has been working with stakeholders to develop a plan to deliver classes and exams remotely.Ramsey said while “preparations are underway,” the university is waiting to receive word from local health authorities on whether those plans should be implemented.At a press conference Wednesday, Laurentian University President Robert Haché said the purpose of the move is to “minimize the opportunity for large groups to come together and increase the risk of infection.”“Laurentian University’s foremost concern is for the health and well-being of its students, faculty and staff and to our wider community,” Hache said.“We are further committed to ensuring that our students have an opportunity to finish their studies without any disruption,” he continued.Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates, which advises colleges and universities in Canada and abroad, said that for the most part, universities and colleges have the capacity to deliver classes online.“The only thing limiting your ability to go online is bandwidth,” he said. Ontario’s colleges and universities are running online courses and handing out alternate projects or take-home ... though spring commencement ceremonies have either been postponed or cancelled. Toll Free (in Canada): 1.888.892.2228 Phone: 519.763.4725 Email: [email protected] Mailing Address: 60 Corporate Court Guelph, ON N1G 5J3.
There may be somebody in the room or two people in the room who get the severe version of the disease — is that risk worth taking?”He said, ultimately, the decision is “just people really being cautious.”“You know, in three years, we might say, ‘Oh, that was so silly to have done all that,’ or in three years, we may say, ‘This should’ve been done earlier because there’s so much spread, and this is a bad disease,'” he said.According to Usher, there are a number of differences between the U.S. and Canada and schools’ decisions to move classes or close campuses.Usher said that in Canada, the rate of community transmission of the novel coronavirus is much lower than in the U.S.“So they’re reacting to something much different,” he said.Second, Usher said that in Canada, educational institutions and the public largely trust the opinion of health authorities.“We’ve been through this with SARS before,” he said. “But we should be prepared for that potential scenario, depending on how this epidemic evolves in Canada.”Stanley Perlman, a coronavirus expert at the University of Iowa, told Global News that the school closures in the U.S. are largely a response to the fear associated with the virus.He said, though, that it in some ways, the decision to close schools “makes great sense” but that it is “very hard to make a judgment.”“You put a group of students in a classroom with 300 people, and one or two of them are sick.
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