{"id":4199,"date":"2020-09-07T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maadhouze.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2020-09-07T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T06:40:08","slug":"aurak-resumes-classes-and-academic-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=4199","title":{"rendered":"AURAK Resumes Classes And Academic Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah <\/span><\/span>(AURAK) <\/span><\/span>has resumed its classes and academic activities starting from the <\/span><\/span>F<\/span><\/span>all semester 2020. All health and safety measures stipulated in the guidelines of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Prevention have been taken, in line with the precautionary measures followed locally and internationally, to ensure the safety of students<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> faculty and <\/span><\/span>m<\/span><\/span>anagement and protection from Covid-19 infection.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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AURAK has introduced new measures related to safety rules, as it decided to apply online learning in the first two weeks of the semester, before transition to the hybrid education system.<\/span><\/span> This system will include<\/span><\/span> four<\/span><\/span> days <\/span><\/span>of <\/span><\/span>classes<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> with<\/span><\/span> Thursday<\/span><\/span>dedicated<\/span><\/span> to university activities<\/span><\/span>. Working hours will be<\/span><\/span>extend<\/span><\/span>ed<\/span><\/span> and run<\/span><\/span> from 9 am to 10 pm to ensure no more than 50% of the community <\/span><\/span>are <\/span><\/span>on campus at the same time, limiting in-person classes to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>50% of the registered students <\/span><\/span>once a<\/span><\/span> week for every class<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and labs to 15 students<\/span><\/span>. L<\/span><\/span>ectures <\/span><\/span>will be transmitted <\/span><\/span>live and record<\/span><\/span>ed.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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B<\/span><\/span>efore joining<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> everyone <\/span><\/span>will be required\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to<\/span><\/span> show <\/span><\/span>a <\/span><\/span>negative result for the COVID-19 <\/span><\/span>virus in a test <\/span><\/span>carried <\/span><\/span>out <\/span><\/span>not more than 48 hours<\/span><\/span> previously<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>sign an undertaking <\/span><\/span>agreeing <\/span><\/span>to comply with the <\/span><\/span>h<\/span><\/span>ealth and <\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>afety measures<\/span><\/span>. This <\/span><\/span>will include students staying <\/span><\/span>in<\/span><\/span> the <\/span><\/span>dormitories<\/span><\/span> as well<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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W<\/span><\/span>earing masks <\/span><\/span>is<\/span><\/span> mandatory, <\/span><\/span>there will be <\/span><\/span>no gathering<\/span><\/span>s of<\/span><\/span>more than 50 people, <\/span><\/span>and <\/span><\/span>physical distancing<\/span><\/span> is being<\/span><\/span> enforced<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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S<\/span><\/span>tudents opting to stay <\/span><\/span>in<\/span><\/span> the dorms are encouraged to take a single room or select a roommate who is a relative or a close friend<\/span><\/span>. A<\/span><\/span>ny sort of delivery is discouraged or limited <\/span><\/span>by<\/span><\/span> strict procedures<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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T<\/span><\/span>he <\/span><\/span>U<\/span><\/span>niversity, in collaboration with RAK Medical Zone, will carry <\/span><\/span>out <\/span><\/span>periodical COVID-19 test<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) has resumed its classes and academic activities starting from the Fall semester 2020. All health and safety measures stipulated in the guidelines of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Prevention have been taken, in line with the precautionary measures followed locally and internationally, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2757,1611,2756,2419],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-academic-activities","tag-aurak","tag-classes","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4201,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}