THE state-run University of the Philippines yesterday announced that face-to-face classes in all its undergraduate courses will resume in the second semester of the current academic year.
“Details regarding implementing face-to-face classes in all courses and the learning delivery mode in the graduate programs are currently being finalized,” UP said.
“This is complementary to the university’s adoption of hybrid and blended learning to equip students for the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and achieve educational resilience in a volatile and rapidly changing world,” it added.
The university said it is already holding 100 percent face-to-face classes for laboratory, studio, and practicum courses, among others, and all courses in some of its constituent universities in the first semester of the current academic year.
UP Manila began holding 100 percent face-to-face classes for its courses in the public health disciplines as early as July 2021.
Last Tuesday, Sen. Pia Cayetano scolded UP and four other schools for not holding in-person learning, and questioned their basis for holding blended learning.
The other schools are Cagayan State University, Northern Iloilo State University, South Cotabato State College, and Mindanao State University.
Cayetano further pointed out that elementary and high school students are already attending in-person learning since classes opened last month.
Full in-person learning in all public and private schools in the country are formally scheduled to start on Nov. 2.
