Students must produce COVID negative reports, sign an undertaking, and spend 3 days in isolation on a campus
The University of Hyderabad (UOH) has announced a new phase of reopening of its campus with an additional 2,000 students allowed to enable individual academic activities.
Vice Chancellor Prof. The Task Force headed by Vinod Pavrala approved the recommendations, which will allow the return of all terminal semester postgraduate students, who will complete their respective programs and graduate in June. The decision was taken after reviewing the current COVID status and the progress of the vaccine drive.
However, all students returning to the latest stage must produce COVID-negative reports from RT-PCR testing, sign an undertaking, and spend a minimum of three days in isolation at a campus facility.
Those returning from six states, Maharashtra, Kerala, Karnataka, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat, should spend seven days in isolation as cases in those states have registered an increase.
A university statement said that all Ph.D. Those students, who joined in 2020-21, can return to campus to resume their research work. For now, all classes of master students joining the university in 2020 will continue to have online classes.
The withdrawal will be completely voluntary and the university will continue teaching-learning activities online for those wishing to stay in their homes.
The latest announcement tops the already permitted 1,300 students, with science and final semester students from science and applied disciplines such as performing arts and fine arts, returning to campus and staying in hostels.
The University of Hyderabad has already facilitated senior research scholars to complete their thesis presentations, started online teaching from August, reopened their main library and provided remote access to digital resources to all students and faculty, one Digital access grants were put in place to solve problems with digital divide and kick-started lab sessions for science students.
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