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The Lithuanian Military Academy has been lively since the early hours of the morning, and the new school year begins here. This year, 120 young people joined here, including 17 girls. The seniors laugh that they still got to enjoy the summer, as most of the new school year for them begins in August, and the academy students aren’t the only ones in this field.
Most of the students vaccinated against the coronavirus in Lithuania are studying here.
For them, vaccination is not only a duty to the country, but also an opportunity to study in the classrooms.
Up to 9 out of 10 students were vaccinated at the Military Academy. These numbers were reached by vaccination as early as the spring.
“Because we are a separate enough community, it is such a separate social bubble. We only felt safe enough in isolation and there were very few of those cases. The staff and cadets from that vaccine waited for us to move on to contact work, to military training without restrictions. That persuasion was not very necessary, “taught at LNK Major Donatas Suchockis of the Lithuanian Military Academy.
According to data published by the Department of Statistics, the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LSMU) as well as the ISM University of Economics and Management are not far behind. They vaccinated 8 out of 10 students.
Similar figures are found at Vilnius University (VU), the largest institution of higher education in the country. And while the auditorium chairs will no longer be empty as of September 1, the restrictions will not be bypassed.
“Many colleges tend to hold the largest classes remotely. Certainly, seminars, practical classes in laboratories, lectures in smaller groups will be held live, ”said Valdas Jaskūnas, Vice Chancellor for Studies at VU.
Distance and contact training is maintained for security reasons; With the entry into force of the Opportunity Passport, this will also facilitate the mandatory daily checks.
“It will take patience and patience. Because in some places those flows can be higher. And it will take time to verify those Passports of Opportunity,” said VU representative V. Jaskūnas.
Combining blended learning also requires a significant investment. Therefore, educational institutions that cannot boast such impressive vaccination figures are not the easiest times.
For example, less than half of the students in Lithuania’s faculties of business and social sciences were vaccinated.
“We would like the students to be vaccinated as well. But unfortunately, as in all of Lithuania, there is such a divide, some are not even going to be vaccinated,” said Lina Vaitkevičienė, SMK director in Vilnius.
There is also an attempt to change the number through calls and daily communication with the students by phone and telephone.
“Some of the parents called, the students themselves. He claimed that his rights were being violated. But we explain that they have a choice, not coercion. Their involvement in direct contact with teachers during the lectures is simply limited, ”explained Angelė Lileikienė, Director of the Lithuanian Business School.
According to university representatives, distance learning will not make life easier for students. On the contrary, direct contact with teachers will be prohibited and the necessary literature will be difficult to obtain.
However, it is not only the students who have to fight. Teachers who refuse to get vaccinated also have headaches.
“Unfortunately yes. It is true that there are teachers who categorically refuse to be vaccinated, we have such cases. We are surprised by such unawareness of teachers,” said the director of the Lithuanian Business School.
And although the Lithuanian Business School has granted the right to distance education to teachers who do not want to be vaccinated, the Faculty of Social Sciences believes that it will have to be more strict.
“To those who maliciously refuse to be vaccinated, we tell them that we want to be vaccinated. They have to get in touch, therefore those teachers can no longer work, ”said L. Vaitkevičienė, director of SMK in Vilnius.
Students from higher education institutions in Klaipėda who study cosmetology and alternative medicine have the lowest percentage of immunizations in Lithuania.
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