National University of Singapore president: I do not see a return to pre-Covid learning | Our New Future - CNBC

 KEY POINTS

• The National University of Singapore is using three strategies to prevent coronavirus outbreaks on its campuses.
• The university is also pushing for greater interdisciplinarity among its courses amid the pandemic.

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One of the world’s top universities predicts that learning will never truly return to normal, as CNBC reports.

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Tan Eng Chye, president of the National University of Singapore, told CNBC that he does not foresee any return to pre-coronavirus learning.

“No I do not see things going to (a) pre-Covid-19 period,” Tan told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Asia” Monday, as he explained the university’s three-pronged approach to prevent outbreaks of the coronavirus on its campuses. 

“Containment” was the first of these strategies, dividing the university’s three campuses into five self-contained zones. Staff and students must stay within their designated zone...

Not only has the pandemic prompted the university to re-consider how it teaches students but also what it’s teaching them. As such, it has been actively encouraging greater interdisciplinarity, including setting up a college of humanities and sciences. 

The jobs crisis created by the pandemic has also put a focus on finding opportunities to upskill or reskill even after having formally finished studying.

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Source: CNBC