WITS VC THANKS STAFF AS ONLINE TEACHING BEGINS

[WATCH] Wits Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Professor Adam Habib thanks academic, professional and administrative staff who have gone beyond the call of duty to take the academic programme online. He speaks on social justice and the inequalities in our society, and elaborates on Wits’ efforts to ensure that all students have access to mobile computing devices, access to data and free access to Wits’ library and learning management systems and sites. He elaborates on the availability of 5 000 laptops for students in need and the 30GB of data available for one month to every Wits student (at no cost to students), in order to kick-start the online learning process. Professor Habib also explains why it is important to complete the academic programme and encourages students to rise to the challenge and to defeat the effects of the pandemic through online learning. He concludes by saying that the University is ready to support students and to walk this journey together.