Most studies in Universities and colleges will be conducted by Zoom

Institutions of higher education insist that they are prepared for Zoom learning in most parts and only minimal stusies will be conducted in the regular way in classes..
Last week, the chairman of the Council for Higher Education's assessments for the start of the school year, Prof. Haim Teitelbaum, said that "reality will cause hybrid learning to be on the margins, not to the extent that institutions dream of, at least not in the first semester."
Chairman of the Committee of Heads of Universities (VRA) The President of the Hebrew University, Prof. Asher Cohen, told Calcalist today that "it is clear to us that the health situation will not necessarily allow for hybrid learning."
The report of the research team of the Hebrew University published yesterday on the subject of corona disease recommends that the education system be activated only until the fourth grade during the quarantine. Get to frontal classes.If there is an attendance check it will be zoomed.
The school year for more than 300,000 students will open on October 18, in about a month. The universities were preparing for hybrid studies, especially for first-year students. The intention was that many first-year classes would be held on campus in the presence of a third of the students, and the rest would watch the video. In recent weeks, universities have even sent students hybrid study programs.
The chances of this happening in the first semester are very slim. It seems that the universities are not interested in dispelling the uncertainty, because they have an interest in the students moving in with them. A source in the MLAG said that the universities are also under pressure from the municipalities to encourage students to move to the city.
However, the uncertainty makes it very difficult for the students to decide whether to change their place of residence. In the case of students living in the parental home the move can be a very costly affair. This, especially in a time of economic crisis in which it is difficult to impossible to find student work. The chairman of the National Student Union, Shlomi Yehiav, called on "every institution to create certainty for students as soon as possible."
Cohen says that "the easiest thing in the world for us to say is to move to distance learning but we believe it is important that first year students experience campus life, classroom lessons and discussions. We prepare in case it can be done. The price students will pay is uncertainty and we cannot eliminate it." He said, "At the moment the situation does not look good, and if it continues like this there will only be remote instruction."
The chair of the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education, Prof. Yaffa Zilbershtz, said today that "higher education institutions have adapted their preparations for the opening of the first semester to any outline decided by the Ministry of Health." Due to the crisis. "
Minister of Higher Education Zeev Elkin, chairman of the MLAG, said that "I am happy that today we can come out with a clear message that the school year is prepared to take place in any situation from a health point of view, even if a full closure is imposed."