Hybrid Lecture Starts This Week, Mendiktisaintek Asks Campus to Reorganize Faculty and Student Schedules

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology (Mendiktisaintek) has started to encourage campuses to change the way they work and the pattern of lectures to be more efficient. Minister Brian Yuliarto said that hybrid lecture arrangements, digitization of services, to work from home schemes for lecturers and education staff began this week.

Brian emphasized that the efficiency in question was not cutting quality. The campus was asked to rearrange the learning system without disrupting learning achievement.

"We are creating a more efficient work culture. The use of digital, so for registration, for applications, for checking transcripts and so on, the mobility of students can be simpler," said Brian at the Presidential Palace Complex, Monday, April 6.

He also asked that more campus tasks be done digitally. One example highlighted was the final assignment, which until now still has to be printed repeatedly.

In addition, the campus is asked to arrange the lecture schedule so that lecturers and teaching staff are not spread out to work for five full days on campus. The pattern is directed to be more concentrated, so that one day can be used to work from home.

"Of course we will give the campuses how the lecturers work when they are not spread over 5 days. But maybe it can be 4 days. One day can work from home," he said.

For lectures, the campus is asked to assess again which courses can be run in a hybrid or distance learning. However, Brian gave a limit that this model is not for basic level 1 and level 2 courses, and does not apply to courses that require a practicum or studio.

So, what is asked for is not online classes in congregation. The campus is asked to be more careful in arranging classes so that those who can be hybrid can, those who need face-to-face still go. "Starting this week," said Brian about the time of implementation.