miss direct
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I'm currently teaching international students about to come to/already in London. There are loaaaaads of them - do you really think they will all stick to their 2 week quarantine, stuck in a tiny room?
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In a word, no.
miss direct
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Quite. And most of them in my cohort are American or Indian. I'm glad I'm no longer I'm on campus.
maomao
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Just got an email saying we're now obliged to wear masks in lectures. I wish they'd done that before our likely super spreader event yesterday. The lecturer was wearing a visor and wiped down the lectern between students but 20 people giving presentations in a single room with one tiny window open. 
miss direct
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There is no reason that those presentations couldn't have been done online
Lord Camomile
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StUdEnT eXpErIeNcEThere is no reason that those presentations couldn't have been done online
(I do have some sympathy, as so much of uni is about the experience, but it's mutated into a justification for quite a lot of rubbish)
I've been training lecturers to use 'dual delivery' this week (teaching f2f and on Zoom simultaneously). This fudge of a solution will manage to give a worse experience to both the students in the room and those participating online with the added benefit of extra Covid laughs. . .
miss direct
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Dual delivery is a terrible idea.
miss direct
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It's all making me very angry. I decided against a Masters this year because I don't want to study online (that's having been involved in online teaching intensively for the last six months). I feel bad for all the international students (and the local ones, but the international ones pay more) flying over to just sit in their rooms.
maomao
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Not sure. I'm a trainee teacher so a trainee key worker. More teachers are needed because of the Covid crisis and I think it's fair to expect to assess trainees' ability to teach a live class before sending them into schools. 80% of my course is on online anyway; I'd just like to see more precautions (ventilation, masks, smaller groups).There is no reason that those presentations couldn't have been done online
miss direct
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I see. Yes, there's no reason that live presentations can't be done in a safer way. When do you actually go into a school?
maomao
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Mid October. Or whenever I'm allowed.
pogofish
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You can add Aberdeen University to that list. The email confirming it came out a few minutes ago.
No numbers yet but most of the cases are in one building at one halls of residence. Support/cleaning plans have been implemented.
Abertay University in Dundee has just been reported on the radio - again an outbreak in halls.
miss direct
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My landlady is meant to be going back to Stirling soon. She's trying to get out of it, but has already paid for a term's worth of accommodation.
Wilf
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Johnson didn't even give himself any wriggle room this week when he said ' the universities remain open'. That may well mean we have to push on to 40 or more institutions reporting cases before they bow to the inevitable. Any (oxymoron alert) half sensible politician would have added something along the lines of 'but we are working with the universities and keep the situation under review'.
Personally I'm trying to make up my mind whether Johnson's 'the universities remain open' schtick is a function of his political tin ear, whether it's about lining universities and their students up to shoulder the blame for the inevitable large-scale outbreaks, or a bit of both.
quimcunx
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you have glasgow twice. But you can now replace that with Dundee apparently so your numbers still work.
Wilf
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It really feels like we have to go through a cycle with things like pubs opening and Universities: 1. joyful announcement that they are open. 2. Careful now, wash your hands! 3. oh, shit 4. Half arsed restrictions 5. rinse and repeat
SpookyFrank
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Much that Johnson's government has done in this crisis makes a lot more sense when you consider the possibility that their main priority has been to protect the propery market and all the various financial pyramid schemes leveraged against it. Being bullish about keeping students in universities fits in with that theory.
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Lord Camomile
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Never mind, nothing to see here 
Pickman's model
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That's one league table you don't want to be in
quimcunx
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It appears that it's Abertay uni in dundee not dundee uni.
quimcunx
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So every city in Scotland has an affected campus except Perth and Inverness? As far as I know neither have large campuses.
Some bod on the tv just said that Boris has not gone far enough, and that Scotland hasn't either, in his view. I am generally fairly well disposed towards Sturgeon but I'm minded to agree. Universities should have had as many zoom classes as possible this term at least in my view. I presume Sturgeon rather than Johnson controls this.
In fairness to Scotland schools and unis go back earlier so whatever we're seeing in Scotland today is further along the covid timeline than in England today.
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Some coverage of Scottish university outbreaks:
Covid in Scotland: Hundreds of students told to self-isolate
All 500 residents at Parker House in Dundee are asked to self-isolate until contact tracing is completed.
www.bbc.co.uk
