Universities allowed partial campus reopening for exams

Ministers of education have said universities in Belgium can begin welcoming limited groups of students back on campus for certain exams or activities, writes Gabriela Galindo for The Brussels Times.

Flemish universities and colleges (hogescholen) were able to hold on-site exams from Monday 30 November, the regional education minister, Ben Weyts, confirmed, adding that the measure applied in priority to practical examinations, for example in the arts.

Ahead of Belgium’s return to lockdown in late October, several universities announced they were activating code-red and switching back to distance-learning education. Flemish institutions will now also be allowed to organise in-person integration activities or talks aimed particularly at first-year students ahead of their first exams. Francophone universities in Brussels and Wallonia will also be allowed to hold some in-person exam sessions for the January sessions, the minister of higher education for the Brussels-Wallonia Federation, Valérie Glatigny, confirmed on Saturday 28 November.
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