North Highland College UHI - Corona Virus Update
20th March 2020
Updates for students, staff and visitors
Update March 17: North Highland College UHI is to suspend the delivery of face to face teaching from close of business today, Tuesday 17 March at 5pm, moving to the delivery of teaching and learning online to help reduce the risk of spread of coronavirus within our communities. Students local course leaders will be in touch to explain how this will affect students directly and to communicate how they plan to continue teaching and assessment arrangements.
Students must monitor email account, as well as keeping an eye out for information from your local campus.
University-wide information can be found at www.uhi.ac.uk/coronavirus
The wellbeing of students, staff, and visitors to our campuses and across the university partnership is North Highland College UHI's top priority. Our contingency planning actions are being implemented to help us maintain our activities as safely and as fully as possible, and this webpage is intended to signpost you to important and relevant information on the Coronavirus situation.
The University of the Highlands and Islands website provides comprehensive and up to date information for students and staff, including a set of detailed FAQs. You should refer to those pages for the overall situation, and this page will publicise information specific to North Highland College UHI students and staff.
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