Item

Covid-19, Education and Making Choices

Title (Dublin Core)

Covid-19, Education and Making Choices

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

DISCLAIMER: This item may have been submitted in response to a school assignment. See Linked Data.

Description (Dublin Core)

The Covid-19 pandemic has forced almost everyone to make decisions, some small and some drastic. The following is a reflection of how my studies as an international student at the University of Melbourne, Australia were affected by the pandemic.

The date is 9 July 2020. Covid-19 cases have been on the rise in Melbourne in the past two weeks. This trend seems specific to Melbourne as the rest of Australia seems to have the situation under control.

I receive an email from the University.

The email announces that the studies for the second semester (July to November 2020) will take place entirely online.

The majority of semester 1 (March to June) had also taken place online. But students were hopeful that a return to face-to-face teaching would be possible given the relatively low number of cases of Australia up to late June 2020 (when the second wave started).

As an international student, I must make a choice. To stay in Melbourne or to fly home. I need to do so quickly, since incoming flights to Melbourne had already been suspended, and there is no guarantee that the same might not happen to outgoing flight.

In my case, returning home seemed the obvious choice. I would rather have stayed in Melbourne (a city I love!), but alas at least to return means to be closer to friends and family during these times.

I write this in October 2020, the semester is almost over, and the number of daily cases in Melbourne has now dropped significantly (to single digits), after months of strict measures.

For much of the rest of the world however, there does not seem to be an end in sight.

Submitted as part of the HIST30060 Making History subject at the University of Melbourne.
Email (sent to me by the University of Melbourne) and chart of Covid-19 cases in Victoria, Australia (from the Australian Department of Heath and Human Services).

Date (Dublin Core)

July 9, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Yusuf Abdulwahab

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

email

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Health & Wellness
English Education--Universities

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

university
online learning
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
email
University of Melbourne

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

education
university
unimelb
Zoom
Melbourne
online learning
remote study

Collection (Dublin Core)

College COVID Stories

Collecting Institution (Bibliographic Ontology)

Australian Collection

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/17/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/27/2020
10/28/2020
2020/10/30
10/30/2020
11/2/2020
10/19/2021

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

Linked resources

Filter by property

uri
Title Alternate label Class
Travel in the Age of Covid-19 Link Interactive Resource

This item was submitted on October 17, 2020 by Yusuf Abdulwahab using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

Click here to view the collected data.

New Tags

I recognize that my tagging suggestions may be rejected by site curators. I agree with terms of use and I accept to free my contribution under the licence CC BY-SA.