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The spread of COVID-19 has triggered a wide range of extraordinary responses from educational institutions across the world, ranging from travel restrictions to campus closures. Prolonged periods of crisis and recovery will drive greater localisation, online learning, and financial simplification. Before returning to campus, educational institutions must consider both short and long-term challenges.
The Short-term Challenge: To Re-define Education
The difficulty in providing engaging online courses on a large scale and implementing holistic digital solutions, such as admissions, lectures, examinations, and graduation can be considered a short term challenge when it comes to reopening schools and universities.
Most institutions are now seeing online classes as an easy and effective way to educate their students. However, the challenge lies in creating lesson plans that will attract and maintain the attention of students whilst sitting in front of their computers. Now that many schools plan on reopening, they’ll need to make sure that all students don’t feel slack. At home, their environments can be tempting — mobile phones, video games, TVs and students can get used to it. Institutions will need to compete through creative methods to attract students once campuses reopen.
The Long-term Challenge: Also Education… But With More Focus on Hygiene
You’ll never know exactly where your children have been during their time away from school. Negligence can spark a new cluster of COVID-19 in your school.
Strict hygiene measures need to be put in place. Just from our naked eye, we can see that a lot of education institutions are losing large amounts of revenue during the pandemic. Hygiene strategies have to be implemented not only for schools to gain students’ confidence, but also to gain the trust of parents. You know very well who pays your students’ education bills.
When you’re away, pests may come out to play
Prolonged premise closures may cause pest problems. Pests like rats, ants, cockroaches, mosquitoes and termites may become a problem when you reopen.
Rentokil has a range of services to help eliminate these annoying pests and protect your property from further damage. Our experts are ready to provide you with insights into the best possible pest control solutions so that you can have peace of mind during these unprecedented times.
Start Now With Initial
At Initial, we believe that hygiene is the key to all aspects of a healthy life. We have a wide range of hygiene services which include alcohol sanitisers, hygienic door handles, anti-bacterial floor mats, air and surface disinfection services, washroom hygiene services and more.
Contact us or call us at 02-290-8500 to find out how we can assist you in establishing good hygiene practices across your organisation to create healthier, more hygienic and productive work environments.