STA, 9 March 2020 - A growing number of higher education institutions across Slovenia are cancelling in-class lectures and switching to online lectures and e-classes to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The first to announce a suspension of the "teaching process" for a fortnight was the Koper-based University of Primorska, citing the outbreak in neighbouring Italy as part of the reason.
Lectures have also been cancelled at the University of Novo Mesto and at least seven colleges of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia's largest.
The latter advised its members to call off lectures at auditoriums seating 100 or more students for at least two weeks. It also cancelled large events such as conferences itself.
While the university does not have a list of the colleges that suspended or adapted the teaching process, data from its members' web sites show at least seven have done so.
The Faculty of Architecture cancelled all lectures and tutorials, as have the Faculty of Engineering, the Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, and the Faculty of Arts until Friday, replacing them with remote teaching activities.
The Faculty of Medicine suspended certain activities outside its premises until 20 March and the Faculty of Law cancelled all lectures and tutorials, replacing them with individualised study.
Slovenia has so far confirmed nineteen COVID-19 cases. On Saturday, the authorities banned all indoor public gatherings of more than 500 people.
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