Sábado：Portugal Lusa: Minister rules out higher education at a distance after the pandemic
date：2020-06-01 20:08author：小编source：Sábadoviews：
This Monday, the minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education considered that teaching "lives on the interaction between people", ruling out the possibility of distance work replacing the face-to-face model in the post -covid-19 period.
"We live in a time of uncertainty, but there are certain certainties and one of these has to do with the centrality of people, with the centrality of competences and, certainly, that people and competences require the presence and physical interaction", said Manuel Heitor.
The minister participated in one of the debates of the "Skills 4 post-Covid - Competences for the future" initiative, promoted by the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES), and reinforced the importance of continuing to privilege face-to-face work.
Manuel Heitor said that some higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States have already announced that the remote education model will continue in the next academic year, but he stressed that these universities are positioned "in their own world" and, therefore, it would be illusory to believe that the same could apply in the Portuguese context.
Keeping his eyes on the future, Manuel Heitor also admitted that one of the main lessons to be learned from the covid-19 pandemic is that societies must "learn from risk and learn to live with risk".
In the debate that focused on skills for the future, the minister considered that, in addition to technologies in general, skills for the future should be, above all , transversal, also passing through the social and human sciences.
In Portugal, the pandemic has already caused 1,330 deaths and infected 30,788 people. Portugal entered on May 3 in a calamity situation due to the pandemic, after three consecutive periods in a state of emergency since March 19.
This new phase of combating covid-19 provides for mandatory confinement for sick people and under active surveillance, the general duty of home collection and the mandatory use of masks or visors in public transport, public attendance services, schools and commercial establishments.
The Government approved new measures that came into force on Monday, including the resumption of visits to nursing home users, the reopening of daycare centers, face-to-face classes for the 11th and 12th year and the reopening of some street shops, cafes, restaurants, museums, monuments and palaces.
"We live in a time of uncertainty, but there are certain certainties and one of these has to do with the centrality of people, with the centrality of competences and, certainly, that people and competences require the presence and physical interaction", said Manuel Heitor.
The minister participated in one of the debates of the "Skills 4 post-Covid - Competences for the future" initiative, promoted by the Directorate-General for Higher Education (DGES), and reinforced the importance of continuing to privilege face-to-face work.
Manuel Heitor said that some higher education institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States have already announced that the remote education model will continue in the next academic year, but he stressed that these universities are positioned "in their own world" and, therefore, it would be illusory to believe that the same could apply in the Portuguese context.
Keeping his eyes on the future, Manuel Heitor also admitted that one of the main lessons to be learned from the covid-19 pandemic is that societies must "learn from risk and learn to live with risk".
In the debate that focused on skills for the future, the minister considered that, in addition to technologies in general, skills for the future should be, above all , transversal, also passing through the social and human sciences.
In Portugal, the pandemic has already caused 1,330 deaths and infected 30,788 people. Portugal entered on May 3 in a calamity situation due to the pandemic, after three consecutive periods in a state of emergency since March 19.
This new phase of combating covid-19 provides for mandatory confinement for sick people and under active surveillance, the general duty of home collection and the mandatory use of masks or visors in public transport, public attendance services, schools and commercial establishments.
The Government approved new measures that came into force on Monday, including the resumption of visits to nursing home users, the reopening of daycare centers, face-to-face classes for the 11th and 12th year and the reopening of some street shops, cafes, restaurants, museums, monuments and palaces.
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