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SlideshowBob said:
Depends where you're staying I suppose - but for many even a moderate amount of space in a flat with people they don't really know all that well might not be preferable to staying at home with their parents, especially if they're not getting the many benefits and advantages which are supposed to come with uni life. Even plenty of those who do live in relative comfort might still opt for leaving for a while, and it'll be hard to stop them.
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Some colleges eg ucl try to offer hall accom to all their first year undergrads
 
nyxx said:
I wonder how many classes at unis are made up solely of young people who are in halls.
Ime there’s at least a couple of mature students on any given course whose living situation / lifestyle in general is very different to the rest of the course’s. But my experience is not that wide ofc.
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About 1/4 of students live in the parental home, even more so if they are working class. This source has 45% of 'poorer' students living at home.

Poorer students over three times more likely to live at home

Research from our Department of Education finds an increase in 'commuter students' living at home and travelling a significant distance to university.
www.bath.ac.uk www.bath.ac.uk

So, it will vary quite a bit depending on the university and its intake, but the idea of a majority of students all rolling in from 2 or 3 university owned halls has gone. Increasing number of privately owned halls for one thing.
 
Wilf said:
About 1/4 of students live in the parental home, even more so if they are working class. This source has 45% of 'poorer' students living at home.

Poorer students over three times more likely to live at home

Research from our Department of Education finds an increase in 'commuter students' living at home and travelling a significant distance to university.
www.bath.ac.uk www.bath.ac.uk

So, it will vary quite a bit depending on the university and its intake, but the idea of a majority of students all rolling in from 2 or 3 university owned halls has gone. Increasing number of privately owned halls for one thing.
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If you are deemed as living "too close" to the university you might not even be deemed eligible to apply for halls. I wasn't (got one pat of the way through the year in the third year). One of my daughter's best friends had to take a year out because his university expected him to commute from Hackney to Canterbury on a course that would have had daily lectures.

The halls round here seem to be almost all international students.
 
chilango said:
  1. St Andrew's
  2. Edinburgh Napier
  3. Glasgow
  4. Stirling
  5. Oxford Brookes
  6. Bath
  7. Manchester Metropolitan
  8. Liverpool


Any others yet?
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Must admit, I can't see any evidence of a Liverpool outbreak beyond that tweet. And if there were 87 cases you might expect more press interest>

Edit - digging a bit further the source seems to be a U of Liverpool UCU official, but still no wider reporting of it. Make of that what you will.
 
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Wilf said:
Must admit, I can't see any evidence of a Liverpool outbreak beyond that tweet. And if there were 87 cases you might expect more press interest>

Edit - digging a bit further the source seems to be a U of Liverpool UCU official, but still no wider reporting of it. Make of that what you will.
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Given the climate of dishonesty and secrecy it's hard to know any of this stuff for sure.

...but you'd think the Uni would deny it if it wasn't true?
 
Just read through our Coronavirus plan for campus, apparently students who test positive are going to be required to stay in their halls, not return to home, but with no details of how this will be achieved.
 
So that's:
  1. St Andrew's
  2. Edinburgh Napier
  3. Glasgow
  4. Stirling
  5. Oxford Brookes
  6. Bath
  7. Manchester Metropolitan
  8. Liverpool
  9. Glasgow
There are about 130 institutions if I remember (from looking at my own institutions dismal performance in the league tables recently). So, around 7% of places have cases even before the terms starts.
 
Pickman's model said:
Reckon you'll be looking nearer 90 institutions, upwards
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I certainly think we're likely to hit that point, but bearing in mind the delay between infection and symptoms in many cases that probably won't show in the figures for a further week.

My guess is that every VC in the country is well aware of this, but no institution wants to be the first to break ranks and say that on-campus teaching won't work.
 
Got to give the Freshers a couple of weekends to

a) Get sick of the randoms they've been assigned a flat with

b) figure out how to get to the bars in town

c) meet some new randoms and go back to theirs

oh and...

d) f2f learning to start in poorly ventilated rooms with groups of other randoms.
 
Roadkill said:
I certainly think we're likely to hit that point, but bearing in mind the delay between infection and symptoms in many cases that probably won't show in the figures for a further week.

My guess is that every VC in the country is well aware of this, but no institution wants to be the first to break ranks and say that on-campus teaching won't work.
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I suspect they re desperately hoping/waiting for "student demands" to stop f2f.
 
Roadkill said:
I certainly think we're likely to hit that point, but bearing in mind the delay between infection and symptoms in many cases that probably won't show in the figures for a further week.

My guess is that every VC in the country is well aware of this, but no institution wants to be the first to break ranks and say that on-campus teaching won't work.
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Who'll blink first is related to gov policy on funding
 
Built on the list on this thread to share with branch members, but thought it might be handy as a summary here too:

1. St Andrew's – 4 cases, 40 isolating
2. Edinburgh Napier – 11 cases
3. Glasgow – “a number of cases”
4. Stirling – “a student”
5. Oxford Brookes - “small but growing number”
6. Bath – “small number”
7. Manchester Metropolitan – “a handful of confirmed cases… after ‘100-strong’ party”
8. Liverpool – 80 students and 7 staff
9. Swansea – 12 students
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
If there is a single uni that doesn’t end up with cases I’ll eat my shoes.
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Yeah, it's simply inevitable given the numbers of people involved.

Even with the best on-campus precautions available, there are other areas of people's lives where they could contract it, whether that's on the way to/from campus or simply because they have kids who are going to school and bringing it back with them.
 
Lord Camomile said:
Even with the best on-campus precautions available, there are other areas of people's lives where they could contract it, whether that's on the way to/from campus or simply because they have kids who are going to school and bringing it back with them.
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All sadly true, and there's also the fact that - with the best will in the world - some students are going to take risks, especially once they've had a drink. That's not because they're stupid or irresponsible or whatever the Daily Express will call them, but because they're young.
 
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