“Higher education”: it is possible to postpone the exams until the end of the year and merge the two semesters

Dr. Hussam Abdel Ghaffar, spokesman for the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, revealed that postponing exams until the end of the year is possible in case there is a significant increase in Corona’s injuries, after returning from a half-year vacation. year.

During his meeting with the “Al-Hayat Al-Youm” program on the Al-Hayat channel, Abdul Ghaffar pointed out that the epidemiological situation in Corona after the end of the mid-year holidays will lead to the decision to determine the dates of exams or postpone them until the end of the year, merging the two semesters into a single exam.

He added that the decision to postpone the exams was not decided until after the mid-year vacation, but the circumstances of the Corona pandemic in the country were what motivated them.

Abdul Ghaffar claimed that the health condition requires that there be safe education through e-learning and that the exams take place after the mid-year break, emphasizing that the government monitors the health status on a daily basis.

Abdul Ghaffar explained that what happened was the culmination of the learning process through e-learning platforms, noting that we warned at the beginning of the year that education during this stage will be “hybrid”.

He continued: “The Prime Minister’s decision includes reducing the numbers as needed so that there is no overcrowding or unjustified presence,” adding that the occupancy rate in university hospitals is far from total absorption, and we have 29 university hospitals for isolation and Occupancy rate did not reach 50% and the rates of patients needing artificial respiration did not exceed 25%.