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The new amendment to the Rector's Order extends all regulations until April 12, 2020

Vojtěch Petráček, Rector of CTU issued the third amendment to his Order 07/2020, where he extended the previous regulations until April 12, 2020. Teaching, examinations, defenses and graduations are still suspended, meetings, conferences, cultural events are canceled. , Sporting and social events, business trips and visits in dormitories are canceled as well. The Rector recommends not to travel in places with a higher concentration of persons or during peak hours by public transport and to pay attention to the protection of risk groups.

The entire Rector's Order can be found in the appendix, the updated parts are following:

(7) With effect from 23 March 2020 to 12 April 2020

a) All types of in-person instruction are suspended, incl. sports activities, the university of the third age and lifelong learning (lectures, practical classes, seminars, consultations, etc.). In-person classes will be replaced with classes held remotely wherever possible (i.e. using online courses and electronic means of distance communication). The time that would have been used for lessons that cannot be held remotely (such as laboratory practice) should be dedicated to more intense instruction in courses that can be taught remotely so that the framework of the semester is maintained to the maximum extent possible.

b) All examinations, state final examinations (SFE), defences and graduation ceremonies are suspended; presentations and defences of seminar theses will be held 1 Rector’s Order No. 7/2020 as amended by Amendment No. 1 Amendment No. 2 to RO 2020/07 – To mitigate the risk of coronavirus infection 2 remotely wherever possible (using online teaching methods or using electronic means of distance communication).

c) Meetings, sessions, conferences, working meetings, etc. held at CTU are cancelled; CTU employees will limit to the maximum extent possible their participation in such meetings held also outside the CTU premises.

d) Cultural and sports events both held at CTU and organized by CTU outside CTU are cancelled.

e) In case they cannot be postponed, sessions of CTU bodies will be held as videoconferences, teleconferences or using distance voting.

f) All business trips of CTU employees and students’ trips abroad organized by CTU are forbidden.

g) Visits at dormitories and mutual contact between the persons staying at the dormitories in common spaces and in rooms where the person is not staying are prohibited. It is forbidden to check in new guests and students incl. in hostel rooms (the ban does not apply to guests and students staying at the dormitories as of 19 March 2020); possible exemptions (e.g. regarding accommodation of students involved in the implementation of the government measures to mitigate the spread of coronavirus infection) shall be authorized by the Registrar. The Novoměstský Hotel is subject to a special regime.

h) Reception of foreign guests is forbidden.

(9) With effect from 23 March 2020 to 12 April 2020, I issue the following recommendations:

a) Do not go to places with a high concentration of people, do not travel by public transport in peak hours.

b) Pay particular attention to the protection of groups at risk; constituent parts of CTU will take appropriate measures to protect CTU employees aged 55+, pregnant and ill persons and employees who cannot limit contact with family members who are highly at risk (i.e. they suffer from a serious illness, their organism is weakened as a result of a serious illness, etc.).

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