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For the approximately 770,000 students at North Rhine-Westphalia’s universities, the 2020 summer semester should not be a lost semester. This was emphasized by the chairpersons of the state rectors’ conferences of the universities and the universities of applied sciences, Lambert T. Koch and Marcus Baumann, in a press release. A large majority of the students are extremely motivated to take innovative paths together with their lecturers, they say, and an extensive switch to online formats for teaching and examinations will require numerous legal adjustments in the near future. In order to get these changes underway, a paragraph is to be added to the current Higher Education Act to enable measures to deal with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This paragraph is planned to empower the Ministry of Science to issue a legal ordinance that will facilitate the use of digital formats in teaching and for examinations and provide the universities with the necessary legal security. It is also intended to make regulations on the standard period of study, the enrolment process and other important aspects of the work of the universities more flexible: “The sole aim is to act quickly in the interests of our students so that we can make as much out of the semester as possible. We therefore ask the Parliament for cross-party solidarity so that the amendment of the law including the ordinance can be initiated as quickly as possible. Every day counts. After all, we expect no more and no less from the teachers than to change their teaching formats within a few days, sometimes completely,” explains Koch.

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