Education continues with online classes at AGU

TDT | Manama

The Arabian Gulf University (AGU) has stressed its commitment to undertaking all possible measures to compensate its students for the lost time and use all available capabilities to reduce graduation delays. All educational institutions in Bahrain have been shut amid precautionary measures taken to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) and ensure the safety of the citizens, residents and visitors. The closures were initially for two weeks, but the period was extended to ensure the safest conditions are met.

However, despite the closure, AGU moved to ensure that education continues and this week, it resumed teaching the theoretical parts of the curriculum online. Classes in the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences for the first to the fourth academic years of the Doctor of Medicine programme started on March 22. The fifth and sixth academic years of the Doctor of Medicine programme and postgraduate studies in all the programmes of the College of Graduate Studies and the College of Medicine and Medical Sciences and will start today, AGU said.

The university said it has a large team that specialises in distance-learning and information technology. It has played a central role in preparing platforms and ensuring their steady performance in delivering information to students. Faculty members of both colleges participated last week in several detailed workshops for training on the platforms to be used in distance teaching.