No return before February for Francophone universities

Francophone universities in Brussels and Wallonia will maintain distance-learning modalities until at least February 2021, aligning themselves with regulations announced earlier for Flemish universities, writes Gabriela Galindo for The Brussels Times.

Valérie Glatigny, the minister for higher education for the Brussels-Wallonia Federation, confirmed that there were no plans to allow students to return en masse to campus at the start of the new semester. The possibility to revert back from the current red-code risk scenario would only be reviewed, she said, until after the first-term exam period concluded, around late January.

Her announcement comes moments after Flemish Education Minister Ben Weyts said that Dutch-speaking universities in Flanders and in Brussels would also remain under code red for a bit longer, until late February.
Full report on The Brussels Times site