How Unair Welcomes New Normal in Student Lectures During the Pandemic

The new structuring effort initiated by the government or what is popularly called the New Normal in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to be responded to by the Higher Education (PT) in Surabaya.

Airlangga University (Unair), for example. The campus, which is currently led by Prof. Mohammad Nasih, has begun to prepare lecturers in preparing teaching materials with a new order for their students.

Airlangga University (Unair) Chancellor Prof. Mohammad Nasih revealed, a number of agendas will be carried out in the near future.

Among them are new student admissions through the Computer-Based Writing Exam (UTBK) in July 2020. Then the independent path in August 2020 and lectures will begin in September.

“Some courses are conducted online. Meanwhile, for courses that cannot be done online, procedures will be regulated, starting from the seat and many other things,” explained Nasih.

Unair's readiness is certainly an important part of the campaign for the implementation of the New Normal or a new order which will become a new routine.

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Soetojo, added that his party was preparing everything to support learning with new patterns, such as online lectures.

"The learning process at FK UNAIR will certainly go back to the way it was, but not completely the same," he said.

Special regulations are also designed for practicals. If all this time the learning in the laboratory was close together, later it would be arranged rice cooker price the distance. In this case, of course, must add facilities and infrastructure or at least arrange student schedules so that they are not too excessive in one laboratory.

"Later on, during the New Normal, it will be combined between online and face-to-face. In that way, FK Unair students will get more new things, "added Soetojo.

Soetojo's statement is also supported by reports from all departments in FK Unair during this pandemic, they can run the learning process smoothly, even online learning is considered much more effective and efficient.