Universities

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Anyone got any input on what university's are up to.
As I understand it many are keeping going, especially the libraries, in one form or another because they are under serious threat of heavy fines
from student unions if they close down and are running scared from taking the most responsible course of action.
Schools closed, why not uni's. It is much more important for uni's to close down as the students are from all over the world, not just the UK
and must be at great risk of spreading the virus.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Most universities have stopped teaching and moved to online, afaik. Not heard anything about them keeping going - they all seemed to have stopped before the schools closed.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Ours is closed except to essential staff. I'd be surprised if anywhere else was much different.

 

[hegley]

I work at a uni - all teaching has moved online, all staff that can WFH have been told to do so. End of year exams have been cancelled for all 1st and 2nd years and 3rd/4th will be done online. The main library remains open but all the smaller subsidiary libraries have closed. Nobody's really expecting to be back in the office until next academic year now.

 

[PursuedByBears]

I work at a uni - all teaching has moved online, all staff that can WFH have been told to do so. End of year exams have been cancelled for all 1st and 2nd years and 3rd/4th will be done online. The main library remains open but all the smaller subsidiary libraries have closed. Nobody's really expecting to be back in the office until next academic year now.

Same at ours.

 

[hash tag]

Should the libraries remain open? A large communal area for people to congregate in. Also the librarians have to get to work and home again.
Some awful public transport journeys in town and other cities as well I imagine.

 

[PursuedByBears]

International student recruitment for next term will be impossible now. Without some government intervention I think some institutions will go bust

 

[Chz]

I work at a uni - all teaching has moved online, all staff that can WFH have been told to do so. End of year exams have been cancelled for all 1st and 2nd years and 3rd/4th will be done online. The main library remains open but all the smaller subsidiary libraries have closed. Nobody's really expecting to be back in the office until next academic year now.

Same at Westminster.

 

[SpookyFrank]

On friday I got accepted onto a postgrad course due to start in September. We'll see how that turns out.

 

[mx wcfc]

My daughter is in her final year at Bath. They have closed down. She's at home writing her "thesis/dissertation" which still has to go in and will be a big part of her grade.
They are being told what's happening re final exams next Friday. It's either forget about it, or do it online, which I guess means open book.

 

[chilango]

Officially keeping going online (financial implications) but library is now belatedly shut as are all study spaces.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I work at a uni. 2 out of three campus completely closed. The library at third will do some social distancing. Staffed by security with self service. Many students find gave hardware at home and rely on the library. But with guidance to stay off public transport they cant get to the third library. It's a fast changing situation. I expect more will have changed by Monday

 

[Pickman's model]

Should the libraries remain open? A large communal area for people to congregate in. Also the librarians have to get to work and home again.
Some awful public transport journeys in town and other cities as well I imagine.

All libraries where I work closed.

 

[strung out]

My place has all three libraries open with three staff at each of them - normally 100+ people across the sites.

 

[FiFi]

The Young Adult is home from Plymouth. She has luckily completed her dissertation, but has 2 other assignments to complete. Her lectures are now online, and she is expecting to hear about her final exams during the week.

 

[hash tag]

Finally, Mrs T's place closed at midnight last night, uni, library and all. Bout time.

 

[Dogsauce]

All these students coming home will be increasing the spread of the illness, transporting it around the country. My sister‘s just done a ten hour round trip to pick my niece up from Durham, other child also back from a Southampton.

 

[chilango]

All of this is a direct consequence of making Universities reliant upon paying customers.

They're petrified of having to pay back fees/not get upcoming fees.

 

[mx wcfc]

All of this is a direct consequence of making Universities reliant upon paying customers.

They're petrified of having to pay back fees/not get upcoming fees.

We were musing on the possibility of getting a refund on her fees. About as likely as a refund on her rent.

 

[hash tag]

All of this is a direct consequence of making Universities reliant upon paying customers.

They're petrified of having to pay back fees/not get upcoming fees.

On the other side of this coin, whats this going to do for next years recruitment and intake, especially as the best payers are from overseas?

 

[t0bytoo]

I imagine that the Open University will see more enrolments. Hopefully there will be enough tutors to go around.

 

[chilango]

On the other side of this coin, whats this going to do for next years recruitment and intake, especially as the best payers are from overseas?

Exactly.

 

[cybershot]

We closed on Friday 5pm and don't return until 1st June at the earliest. Working from home. Teaching online.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

We closed on Friday 5pm and don't return until 1st June at the earliest. Working from home. Teaching online.

Exactly the same as my place

 

[brogdale]

I work at a uni. 2 out of three campus completely closed. The library at third will do some social distancing. Staffed by security with self service. Many students find gave hardware at home and rely on the library. But with guidance to stay off public transport they cant get to the third library. It's a fast changing situation. I expect more will have changed by Monday

Many residences remain open and staffed (with added security) as there is a rump of students who can't/don't want to leave (many overseas).

 

[kabbes]

We’re both students at university despite being middle aged.

The kabbess is at Roehampton. She’s doing her course part-time and, as luck would have it, only has her dissertation left to do this year, which she’s just doing at home as she would be doing in any case. Her laboratory work was finished before the virus hit and the viva part now has to be recorded into a PowerPoint presentation instead. The kabbess’ personal experience aside, the university have cancelled lectures and I don’t think the faculty have decided yet what to do about the exams that the others in the final year were supposed to be doing.

I’m at Open University. Tutorials are all now online only but otherwise it’s really just as you were. My course was supposed to have an exam this year which is actually part of the degree’s accreditation with the BPS. That exam has been cancelled but they haven’t decided yet what to replace it with.

 

[Argonia]

Where I work all lectures are now online and the library is still open but who knows how long for.

 

[Dandred]

All unis in South Korea are closed until the 6th of April and it will probably be a few weeks after that until they are all open.

I've been making video lectures with are uploaded to the uni's site and students are being given attendance points once they have watched them. Not sure what we are going to do if this goes on up to the mid-terms.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I didn't expect this so soon, but two students already have emailed me today to say their parent[London based] has died from C19

 

[hash tag]

Where I work all lectures are now online and the library is still open but who knows how long for.

I started this because this is where Mrs t was and felt it was irresponsible, inconsiderate and unnecessary.
You have students mixing in common area's and with library staff. The librarians are mostly using pubic transport , it can't be the most sensible of things.