Universities – Hamburg – Lecturers at the University of Hamburg are demanding classroom teaching despite Corona – education

Hamburg (dpa / lno) – More than 30 lecturers from various faculties at the University of Hamburg have spoken out against an almost exclusively digital winter semester due to the corona. In an open letter circulated on Wednesday, they asked the university’s presidium to “enable the planned face-to-face events to their full extent”. This must be done “of course on the basis of the protection concepts developed”.

In the last few months a lot of work has been invested in the creation of hygiene concepts, write the teachers, who want to emphasize their demands with an online petition. “Lecture halls with several hundred seats have been planned for seminars with 20-30 participants.” In addition, encounters are the best remedy for loneliness, frustration and stress.

On Monday, University President Dieter Lenzen announced that lectures and seminars in the winter semester had to take place digitally. Sports will also be discontinued; Botanical gardens, museums, collections and archives would be closed. Only the libraries are to remain open and offer students a limited number of jobs.

–