regulatory body in UK that looks after student affairs has warned universities to be honest about online lessons. Office for Students issued request to higher education providers not to make promises that lessons from September will be in-person or face-to-face. Currently, thousands of institutions worldwide are delivering lessons online because of coronavirus pandemic. quality of these lessons quite often depends on proficiency of teachers to successfully exploit video conferencing platforms to replicate classroom experience. body said: "Tailored support needs to be put in place." Cambridge University has announced all of its lessons will be online until summer of 2021.
Office for Students chief executive, Nicola Dandridge, warned universities and colleges to be "as clear as they can" when informing students of what kind of teaching situation they will receive. She said: "None of us knows exactly what is going to be happening in autumn. What we don't want to see is promises that it's all going to be back to usual with on-campus experience, when that is not case." She added: " point here is absolute clarity to students so they know what they are getting in advance to accepting [university] offers." She said that, "every reasonable effort" should be made to ensure that students, "receive good outcomes and that quality of their teaching is robust".
