The university in the ‘one-and-a-half metre society’

Early on in the corona crisis, the university set to work with proctored exams, where students can take their exams at home, but while they are filmed. Sometimes even the entire room is scanned for activity. Is proctoring a keeper?

Not all higher education institutions participate in proctoring. At the University of Amsterdam, the university council files a lawsuit against the system (and loses), two universities of applied sciences don’t want to use proctoring.

What will the ‘one-and-a-half metre university’ look like? How many studentswill fit in a lecture hall and what other measures need to be taken on campus to ensure that everything runs smoothly?

One of the reasons for keeping higher education institutions closed for a long time is that students use public transport a lot. That is why the government does not want any physical lectures that require students to travel during rush hour.

Not only is education changing in a post-corona world, student life will also be drastically different.

The economic consequences of the crisis are also felt by students. Many lose their part-time job.

It is widely appreciated that teachers have set up online education so quickly. Yet that does not mean that the education is always good. In a survey by EM, EUR students give digital education a meager fail.