DON Honorio Ventura State University will start classes on August 24, 2020 for its Laboratory High School (LHS) and Senior High School (SHS) departments.
University president Dr. Enrique G. Baking said this in compliance with the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) approved Department of Education decision on the start of classes.
Baking said the classes of the secondary levels of DHVSU shall follow the Basic Education Learning Continuity Plan, mainly focused on blended learning through online media.
Tertiary level classes, according to Baking, will probably open either in August or the first week of September depending on further instructions from health government officials.
The university paper, the Industrialist, reported that there will be "no face-to-face classes to be conducted in the opening of the next school year and all methods of instruction will be through online media."
Baking said that additional funding to provide such facilities is currently being drafted and extension campuses' municipalities are planned to be coordinated to the provision of equipment needed for the new education system.
Meanwhile, university admission is already closed and the basis of the rest of examinees unable to take the admission test will be their grades from their previously attended institutions as mandated by the IATF.
Baking also said that the schedules of enrolment and virtual graduation has been decided and will soon be announced. The complete lists of qualifiers will also be released soon by the respective campuses.