Plans for learning and teaching for the remainder of Session 2 2021.
Dear Students,
I am writing to provide you with an update in relation to our plans for learning and teaching for the remainder of Session 2, 2021.
Unfortunately, with community transmission of the COVID-19 pandemic continuing and lockdown orders now extended into September, we have taken the decision to continue to conduct study online for the remainder of Session 2 for all units without mandatory on-campus learning activities.
We have done this to provide you with some certainty around arrangements for the remainder of the Session. My ongoing hope is that we can return to learning and teaching on campus beyond Session 2 when it is appropriate to do so, recognising that the University has an obligation to comply with direction provided by NSW Health.
Examinations for Session 2 will be conducted online where it is possible to do so. Planning for alternative arrangements for those units that still require mandatory on-campus learning activities is currently underway. We are examining a range of possibilities about how this will be achieved and will be communicating details to those students in these units shortly.
I also want to strongly encourage all staff and students to be vaccinated as soon as possible and remind you of the availability of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at our GP Clinic for domestic students and the WISE COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic in North Ryde.
With hundreds of people contracting COVID-19 every day, I also want to ask that if you do test positive for COVID-19 please email our COVIDSafe team who are working tirelessly to keep our community safe and compliant with NSW Public Health Orders.
Sincerely,
Professor S. Bruce Dowton
Vice-Chancellor, Macquarie University