Covid19: Education sector grapple with technology, virtual, online classrooms

Private colleges and universities no longer engage students face-to-face and have switched to online learning to arrest the spread of Covid-19. Malaysian Association of Private Colleges and Universities (MAPCU) said students should not assume and treat alternative assessments as being “easier”. Its president Datuk Parmjit Singh said the degree of challenge posed by the approved alternative assessments may be at par, if not more stringent than traditional examination methods. He said the Higher Education Ministry and Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) had issued guidelines for the alternative methods.