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- 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.
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.
Source: CNBC