PANAJI: The pandemic has caused unusual delays in the college academic schedule in the state, resulting in full-fledged lectures being conducted in summer for the first time. Cramped classrooms without proper ventilation and power failures have led to teachers and students taking ill in some cases. This has left college teachers seeking truncating of the syllabus to bring the academic schedule back on track.
“We are seeing students and teachers getting affected by dehydration and low blood pressure. A teacher with a heart ailment had to go on leave for treatment and a masters student fainted last week after climbing three flights of stairs to her classroom in the heat. We have 60 students in most classrooms and lectures go on for long hours from 8.30am to 1.45pm. The situation will get worse in May as the temperatures rise further,” said a Salcete college teacher.
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