India, May 3 -- Ninety-eight per cent of units at Monash offered an on-campus learning mode for tutorials, workshops, laboratories and seminars in semester one, 2021. Those units approved to operate only online were consistent with COVIDSafe health advice provided by the Victorian Government at the beginning of semester one on social distancing, or because the overwhelming majority of students within the unit are offshore.

After the schedule of semester one classes had been made available to students, the Victorian Government changed some restrictions as community transmission of the virus fell. The University was unable to revise the semester timetable without major disruption to all students, so we maintained the timetable set at the b...