The Russian higher education institutions have the right to move the beginning of academic year because of Koronavirus

The Ministry of Education and Science prepared two plans for a case of the second wave of Koronavirus. The deputy minister of science and the highest educations Dmitry Afanasyev declared that the Russian higher education institutions have the right to move the beginning of academic year because of a pandemic Koronavirus. About it reports information agency "ITAR-TASS". Dmitry Afanasyev noted that the Ministry of Education and Science proceeds from the basic scenario according to which academic year will begin in a habitual format — on September 1. He added that thus there are two options of development situations. The first is that universities have the right to postpone the beginning of academic year to term up to two months. According to the deputy minister of science...