Harvard is among the first universities that has shifted completely to online teaching till a vaccine is found to tackle Covid-19.
Current Affairs : In a choice that will antagonistically affect a huge number of Indian understudies in the United States (US), the Federal Immigration Authority has declared that outside understudies seeking after degrees in America should leave the nation or hazard expulsion if their colleges change to online-just classes in this fall semester.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said in a public statement on Monday that for the fall 2020 semester, understudies going to schools working totally online probably won’t take a full online course stack and stay in the US.
Harvard is among the main colleges that has moved totally to internet instructing till an immunization is found to handle Covid-19. Understudies, even who are in the grounds, should learn courses remotely.
Outsiders comprise around 5.5 percent of the understudies joining up with US universities and contributed over $41 billion to the US in monetary year 2019. India sent more than 200,000 understudies to the US in monetary 2019, the biggest after China.
The office recommended that understudies as of now took on the US think about different measures, such as moving to schools with face to face guidance.
Global understudies enroled in scholastic projects in US colleges and schools concentrate on a F-1 visa and those tried out specialized projects at professional or other perceived non-scholarly organizations, other than a language preparing program, go to the US on a M-1 visa.
India sent the biggest number of understudies (251,290) to the US after China (478,732) in 2017 and 2018, as indicated by the most recent Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) ‘SEVIS by the Numbers Report’ 2018.
The quantity of understudies from India expanded from 2017 to 2018 by 4,157.
Aditi Mehta 