Students, get ready for 3-day classes

Students, get ready for 3-day classes

Masks, Social Distancing Must On Campus

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:28.08.2021

Students who will return to colleges and schools on September 1 will have to be prepared for a different campus experience. Classes are going to be held on alternate days, there will be no lunching together, sharing of textbooks, meetings, study tours or sporting activities.

The government has come out with a detailed SOP that tells colleges and schools what to do as they welcome students.

Final year students post graduate courses and professional courses like engineering will have classes on all six days while first years will have online classes.

As per the SOP, second year graduate students will attend college on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while third year students will attend classes on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. For professional courses like BE and Btech, second year students will come on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays while third year students will come on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Faculty and staff should be vaccinated. Colleges should have quarantine facilities and tie up with nearest hospitals for students with symptoms.

Guru Nanak College principal M G Raghunathan said, "We will go by the SOP but will be splitting the classes. If there is a class of 40, it will be split into two and two teachers will teach. We will tell science students to come one day and commerce students to come on another day."

Shanaz Ahamed, principal of Justice Basheer Ahmed Sayeed College for Women, said reopening is good for the students because they will be able to clarify doubts. “But we may have to split the classes to maintain social distancing. We started the same way last year."

Schools will see regular health checks as per the SOP. K Manoharan, principal of SBOA School, said “We have sent guidelines to parents about rules on dropping students at lunch time. Gates have been specified for each class. Teachers will monitor students during breaks. Furniture has been arranged.”