THE UNIVERSITY of the East will continue to implement distance learning in its campuses in Manila and Caloocan cities until the end of Academic Year 2021-2022, its president, Ester Garcia, said.

“The current UE semester across all levels on the University’s Manila and Caloocan campuses have been ongoing since mid-January 2022, on a generally online basis” Garcia said.

“Save for a few exceptions, UE’s second-sem classes will remain entirely virtual, through a variety of existing learning management systems and applications, until the semester’s conclusion in May 2022,” she added.

However, senior students of Doctor of Dental Medicine; BS in Civil Engineering, BS in Computer Engineering, BS in Electrical Engineering, BS in Electronics Engineering, and BS in Mechanical Engineering, BS in Hospitality Management and BS in Tourism Management will attend limited in-person classes.

“Consultation meetings with the concerned students, and their parents or guardians, regarding onsite classes for those aforesaid programs had been conducted earlier this year, and they have been informed of the corresponding guidelines for the conduct of any on-campus/face-to-face classes within the rest of the current semester,” Garcia said.

She added that preparations are underway for the possible conduct of hybrid classes across all levels on both UE campuses for the academic periods of summer 2022 and the first semester of AY 2022-2023.

Garcia said that face-to-face classes might be held with some online classes across all programs.

The Commission on Higher Education earlier clarified that flexible learning is still in place despite the resumption of in-person classes.

“Ibig sabihin ‘yung pamantasan ang magde-decide kung ano ang tamang mix ng face-to-face, online at offline,” CHED Chairman Prospero De Vera III said.