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Breaking News: YÖK: “Final exams at universities and other exams for this academic year will not be conducted face to face.”
An article on YÖK “Covid-19 Measures” was sent to universities.
In the article, the following statements in the article “Covid-19 Measures dated May 11, 2020 and written by the Ministry of Health” were addressed to YÖK:
“It is seen that situations such as massive movements of students between cities, bringing together students from different settlements, reactivating student dormitories and failing to meet social distance in test environments will create an inevitable risk in the pandemic struggle that we are under control. ” It is important that distance education and other exams for this academic year are conducted online or through alternative assessment-evaluation methods, in parallel with decisions made by the Board of Higher Education in formal education programs, and in parallel with decisions made regarding midterm exams. ”
“MOST OF THE UNIVERSITIES MADE DIFFERENT PLANNING”
In YÖK’s article, it was emphasized that local and foreign developments, especially in the field of higher education, have been closely followed by the Higher Education Council regarding the global Kovid-19 epidemic.
In this context, as of March 23, 2020, education began digitally, following the number of cases, in the process, taking into account its own possibilities of infrastructure, theoretical training, and subsequently applied to higher education institutions, taking Take into account your own coordination and agility to take your own measures. It was stated that a terrain for action was created within the framework of principles such as management, flexible decisions, delegation of authority.
In the article, it is stated that most universities have made plans for different ways, especially the digital environment and the online environment for exams.
In YÖK’s letter to universities, the following was noted:
“As the Higher Education Council, the two issues that we must emphasize in all of these processes should be that the tests must be transparent and auditable, and that they must be student-centered, taking into account the physical and mental health of the students. At the meeting of the Executive Board of Higher Education dated 05.11.2020, the application and the epidemic process regarding the subject in the letter of interest were evaluated and it was decided not to take face-to-face exams and other exams belonging to this academic year, and take these exams by applying alternative methods, such as homework and projects, which will be preferred by the relevant university boards. “
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