The discreet end of the University of the Sacred Heart
The Luxembourg campus of the University of the Sacred Heart closed this Friday, July 1. Classes are now online only. The Ministry of Higher Education was not removed from this decision.
Higher Education
The Luxembourg campus of the University of the Sacred Heart closed this Friday, July 1. Classes are now online only. The Ministry of Higher Education was not removed from this decision.
A priori, they are 27. In any case, this is the figure available to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. 27 students from the University of the Sacred Heart, who can no longer take advantage of their Luxembourg campus since July 1. The decision was taken during the spring by the American management of this private establishment.
It would seem that the emphasis is now exclusively on distance education. But difficult to find out more: no information to this effect on the home page of the university’s website; no communication on its Facebook page; no one on the phone this Friday, July 1.
“A unilateral decision”
Claude Meisch (DP), also has no indication. “The Ministry of Higher Education and Research was not informed of the abrupt closure of the campus by the Sacred Heart University upstream, but only incidentally through various emails from employees and students of the Luxembourg site”, explains the Minister in response to a parliamentary question from MP Octavie Modert (CSV), who is concerned about the fate of students, especially foreigners who need a visa to continue their studies.
Claude Meisch recalls that “the decision to close the Luxembourg campus of the Sacred Heart University is a unilateral decision taken by a foreign private operator issuing a US diploma”. Nevertheless, he specifies that exchanges have taken place and are still taking place with the University of the Sacred Heart, so that the ministry can clarify this affair.
Students “taken back”
It would seem that students have been “taken over” by the Luxembourg School of Business, but “it must be specified that such a “takeover” remains an autonomous decision between two private (legal) persons, and therefore escapes direct intervention by the public authorities”, specifies the Minister.
Concerning visas for foreign students, the Immigration Department has been contacted and “takes into account the individual situation of each student concerned, in order to ensure the continuity of the academic course”, concluded Claude Meisch.
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