How these lecturers traveling from the various college campuses pose as a risk of how MERS-CoV can spread, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
There’s the news of a part-time lecturer in a private university up north being confirmed of MERS-CoV, with the assistance by the CDC and the Department of Sanitation in Taipei, teaching the school officials how to prevent the spread of the disease, the school immediately started, implementing the procedure mandated by the government.
Based off of the CDC rules for stopping the school attendances, if there’s just ONE confirmed diagnosis of the students or faculty members, the class sessions taught by the particular instructors shuts down, and all of the students’ other classes should also, stop holding the sessions; there needed to be two confirmed cases of diagnoses, for the entire school to be closed down completely. And yet, what we want to know is, if this part-time lecturer only taught at this particular university? Did he have another teaching post at another school, or does s/he work somewhere else, or, maybe, s/he is a traveling instructor that taught all across the whole of Taiwan?
All of these are important questions to be answered because, based off of the statistics presented by the Department of Education, there are, a total of 41,880 part-time lecturers across Taiwan; if calculating the number of associate professors, there are, a total of 10,921 total. If the part-time lecturers didn’t have another formal post, and relied on the part-time teaching for a livelihood, they’d had to, go around the various schools, to give lectures. And yet, in the defense against MERS-CoV, the Department of Education wouldn’t allow the colleges and university to push forth the distant-education courses, reason being, the cases in Taiwan hadn’t reached to the community spread yet.
And yet, in the currently ongoing influxes of MERS-CoV cases, all of these part-time professors are, traveling across the whole of Taiwan to teach, and this may not just be affecting the rights of the couple of students to learn anymore, it may put everybody in the schools all around Taiwan at risk of exposure.
In other words, from the confirmed diagnosis of a part-time lecturer’s affecting the school’s in working hard to prevent the , the spread of MERS-CoV, the Department of Education’s procedural standards, in how to protect the rights of work of the lecturers, and the college students’ right to obtain a higher education, and the quality of the education provided, through this particular case, is worthy of our, discussion, to help us better advance the higher education forum in the future.
And so, this, poses as a huge risk, because if a lecturer is going to and from schools teaching the classes, and, s/he had contracted MERS-CoV, and not known it, and this puts EVERYBODY that came into contact with the individual at risk for exposure, and that, is just how fast the disease can spread, very quickly, from one place to the next, with us, humans, as, carrier.