KU Leuven’s decisions and risk management during this time of crisis have been absolutely absurd. The university has known about the upcoming pandemic since the very beginning of the semester — and this wasn’t enough time to set up a sufficient IT infrastructure and online examination system? It is not the students’ fault that the university has failed to foresee the appropriate conditions in these times.
Not only that, but the fact that other Belgian universities are foreseeing online examinations proves that it is very much possible!
Furthermore, by forcing Belgian students and those living in Belgium to travel to Brussels (by public transport) to take on-campus exams is not only discriminatory but also absurdly unfair. The university simply cannot guarantee students’ safety while in the examination rooms, and definitely not in their travelling (by trains, metro, bus) to the campus. How can the university ensure students’ safety if they take public transport? Does the university have no regard for the health and safety of not only its students but also the families of the students? On that same point, exactly HOW will the university ensure a fair and equal evaluation of the two different modes of examinations? In my opinion, it is very much impossible. What KU Leuven could at least do is give its students the CHOICE of coming to campus for examinations. Yet even this seems too much to ask.
In general, the university’s approach to this pandemic for the examinations has been grossly unacceptable and clearly an attempt to gain some power and control over its students’ rather than think about what’s best for not only its students but also for society in general. KU Leuven has been far too rigid in its regulations in these uncertain times, refusing to acknowledge its students and adapt to the circumstances.
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Qing
6 years ago
Safety and fairness!!!
We are going to risk ourselves for what?!
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Ravez Francine
6 years ago
Too many risks of uncontrolable contamination..please.....
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Some students have gone to their home countries for safety, or family reasons. Requiring physical examinations is not only a potential safety hazard for all students, but would also render partaking in examinations impossible for the students no longer in Belgium.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
Some students have gone back to their countries for safety or family reasons. Requiring physical examinations would not only be dangerous for all student's healths, but render those that are no longer in Belgium unable to partake in examinations.
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Karina
6 years ago
We demand equality
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Farouk
6 years ago
Equality
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Farouk
6 years ago
Equality
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Chhorvy Imm
6 years ago
Don’t do this to your students.
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Kaat
6 years ago
My comment got deleted. Anyway, in essence:
Many things are still unknown about this virus. Not trying to scare anyone, but this is a fact. Heart, brain, lungs, kidneys, livers, intestines, blood vessels, skin, nerves, ...
They may not be peer-reviewed journals yet, but they should still be taken into account.
Here's an overview: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes
Is it worth risking our lives for an on-site exam? I hope a solution could be made available for everyone, including those who do not have the infrastructure for a 2-hour window exam, for all our health's sake. We shouldn't discriminate at all.
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Kaat
6 years ago
This virus is not a joke. More and more [uncomfortable] information is coming to light. Brain, nerves, skin, kidneys, blood vessels, heart, GI... It's still not 100% certain, sources may not be 100% scientific, but still... Example: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes#
but also: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/health/coronavirus-cardiac-heart-attacks.html
and so much more
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Seoyoung Jang
6 years ago
I agree
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Anonymous
6 years ago
On campus exams for only some of the students is neither safe nor fair!
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Chase N
6 years ago
This is not the way a university should treat its students and put them in danger by having them go in person to take exams. Please reconsider.
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Tung
6 years ago
Sadness
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Ilirjana kaja
6 years ago
The exams should not be taken in Campus environment. The risk is too high
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Mihai Nagnibeda
6 years ago
FEB Brussels
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玥林 李
6 years ago
I remember school mentioned the exam will be organized under social distancing and stict hygienic control, however there will be no real control except letting students stay at home.
When the exam is hosted on campus, we will have to travel to school, regardless living close to campus or not. It's unpredictable who we going to meet and what we might caught, and staying in a exam room for several hours would already allow the virus spread to every person in the exam room.
I hope the school can actually consider for the students, not just their own conveniences.
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Anonymous
6 years ago
I believe that this is a discirimination towards students who are in belgium. Forcing students to go to campus and take the exams is not fair at all. We want KU Leuven to do online exams.
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Alexandre El adm
6 years ago
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Just an example: in my home country, Lebanon, we have to reset the wifi connection every hour or so and there is no fix to this because all services are down and the country is undergoing a financial crisis since long before the virus.
KU Leuven’s decisions and risk management during this time of crisis have been absolutely absurd. The university has known about the upcoming pandemic since the very beginning of the semester — and this wasn’t enough time to set up a sufficient IT infrastructure and online examination system? It is not the students’ fault that the university has failed to foresee the appropriate conditions in these times. Not only that, but the fact that other Belgian universities are foreseeing online examinations proves that it is very much possible! Furthermore, by forcing Belgian students and those living in Belgium to travel to Brussels (by public transport) to take on-campus exams is not only discriminatory but also absurdly unfair. The university simply cannot guarantee students’ safety while in the examination rooms, and definitely not in their travelling (by trains, metro, bus) to the campus. How can the university ensure students’ safety if they take public transport? Does the university have no regard for the health and safety of not only its students but also the families of the students? On that same point, exactly HOW will the university ensure a fair and equal evaluation of the two different modes of examinations? In my opinion, it is very much impossible. What KU Leuven could at least do is give its students the CHOICE of coming to campus for examinations. Yet even this seems too much to ask. In general, the university’s approach to this pandemic for the examinations has been grossly unacceptable and clearly an attempt to gain some power and control over its students’ rather than think about what’s best for not only its students but also for society in general. KU Leuven has been far too rigid in its regulations in these uncertain times, refusing to acknowledge its students and adapt to the circumstances.
Safety and fairness!!! We are going to risk ourselves for what?!
Too many risks of uncontrolable contamination..please.....
Some students have gone to their home countries for safety, or family reasons. Requiring physical examinations is not only a potential safety hazard for all students, but would also render partaking in examinations impossible for the students no longer in Belgium.
Some students have gone back to their countries for safety or family reasons. Requiring physical examinations would not only be dangerous for all student's healths, but render those that are no longer in Belgium unable to partake in examinations.
We demand equality
Equality
Equality
Don’t do this to your students.
My comment got deleted. Anyway, in essence: Many things are still unknown about this virus. Not trying to scare anyone, but this is a fact. Heart, brain, lungs, kidneys, livers, intestines, blood vessels, skin, nerves, ... They may not be peer-reviewed journals yet, but they should still be taken into account. Here's an overview: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes Is it worth risking our lives for an on-site exam? I hope a solution could be made available for everyone, including those who do not have the infrastructure for a 2-hour window exam, for all our health's sake. We shouldn't discriminate at all.
This virus is not a joke. More and more [uncomfortable] information is coming to light. Brain, nerves, skin, kidneys, blood vessels, heart, GI... It's still not 100% certain, sources may not be 100% scientific, but still... Example: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/04/how-does-coronavirus-kill-clinicians-trace-ferocious-rampage-through-body-brain-toes# but also: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/health/coronavirus-cardiac-heart-attacks.html and so much more
I agree
On campus exams for only some of the students is neither safe nor fair!
This is not the way a university should treat its students and put them in danger by having them go in person to take exams. Please reconsider.
Sadness
The exams should not be taken in Campus environment. The risk is too high
FEB Brussels
I remember school mentioned the exam will be organized under social distancing and stict hygienic control, however there will be no real control except letting students stay at home. When the exam is hosted on campus, we will have to travel to school, regardless living close to campus or not. It's unpredictable who we going to meet and what we might caught, and staying in a exam room for several hours would already allow the virus spread to every person in the exam room. I hope the school can actually consider for the students, not just their own conveniences.
I believe that this is a discirimination towards students who are in belgium. Forcing students to go to campus and take the exams is not fair at all. We want KU Leuven to do online exams.
Just an example: in my home country, Lebanon, we have to reset the wifi connection every hour or so and there is no fix to this because all services are down and the country is undergoing a financial crisis since long before the virus.