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The students of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena return to the classrooms from today.

Once the enrollment process is finished, the seven UPCT teaching centers have organized their return to face-to-face teaching in a staggered manner, prioritizing first-year students, after starting the course, on September 21, with online classes of theory and introduction to the different subjects."They really wanted to go back to class," commented Mathematics teacher Francisco Martínez during a break.

"There is no way to miss something to appreciate it," he added.

"In the classroom we are more concentrated than at home and it is easier to understand the explanations", argued one of her students, Isabel Gómez, of the bilingual itinerary of the first year of the School of Telecommunications.Attendance at face-to-face classes is voluntary, so they can also be followed synchronously thanks to the hundreds of cameras with which the UPCT has equipped its classrooms for streaming broadcasting that makes this dual teaching model possible.The technological equipment of the Polytechnic also allows students to see in the foreground, both in the classroom and from home, the visual explanations of subjects such as Graphic Expression, which this morning was attended by first-year students of the degree in Civil Engineering, and in which the teacher had a focused camera in his hands.Students who choose to attend must register in advance and their location in the classroom is also recorded, in order to facilitate contact tracing in the event that a student tests positive."Everything looks pretty safe," stressed Yolanda Morote, a first-year student from the Naval Architecture degree.

This Albacete student agrees that "it is easier to concentrate in the classroom than at home." Half of the sixty new students at Navales have attended the first day of face-to-face classes.

"Contact with colleagues is very important in the first year at the University," pointed out the future naval engineer Ángel Penichet, who has come to the UPCT from Valencia.Interaction with other students has also motivated Francisco Javier Villaescusa and Claudia Reig, both natives of San Javier and students of the first year of the bilingual Business Administration and Management itinerary, to attend the classroom.

"The online classes are very well planned and I find out about everything, but I wanted to start in person and be with my colleagues," he indicated.

"It's much better to socialize and get out of the house, which in the end is overwhelming," she added."One minute of face-to-face class already makes the effort worthwhile," said Mathematics teacher María Moncayo, thanking the management of the School of Telecommunications for organizing the schedules that make it possible for "us to see all the students at least once a week.

" A "direct deal with the teacher" which is what the student Nacho Rojo was looking for when he moved this morning from Murcia to the classrooms of the UPCT.

"They have not been in the classroom since March," Moncayo stressed."We have established rotating shifts to comply with the capacity limitation and the safety distance in the classrooms", details the director of Teleco, Alejandro Álvarez Melcón.

"We believe that it is important that there is a more direct contact with the professors, that it is not all through the cameras, especially for first-year students and in abstract subjects," he argues.Concern about the level of knowledge in basic subjects with which students arrive at the University, after an end of the online course in the institutes, has led Teleco's mathematics teachers to offer a reinforcement course that will begin in the next weeks.In the rest of the UPCT centers, face-to-face classes begin in the next few days.

In Agronomists, the practical and experimentation sessions in the laboratories will take place on Thursdays and Fridays, to minimize student travel.

At the School of Architecture and Building, teaching will begin next week with the assistance of students.

In the School of Industrialists, the schedules are being reorganized once the enrollment is completed, which this year at the UPCT has registered the largest increase to date in new students.

Source: UPCT