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We had a meeting today regarding the statement yesterday, all senior management, admin staff, and teaching staff will remain at home. Lectures delivered online, practical classes will be self directed with post grad supervision. Canteen will be closed. Estates, reception, technicians and library staff must maintain their presence on campus for the duration.

Actually looking forward to working on site with no seniors or teaching staff. Might make the job marginally less annoying.

eta I don’t know how we’ll be able to keep students in quarantine if they get COVID though.
 
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chilango said:
This is going well for 3 days into Freshers Week...

inews.co.uk

Ministers 'must tell students to stay on campus over Christmas' to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks

SAGE warns of 'larger outbreaks' when students return from university at end of academic term
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Story is probably based on the paper I posted earlier today in this thread that SAGE endorsed on September 3rd.

Its impossible to know quite how many SAGE etc papers are still withheld from the public for ages, but a few seem to be coming out within weeks rather than months these days.
 
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LynnDoyleCooper said:
They'll be a fucking uproar if this comes up in December. No chance of this happening I'd say though, it'll all fall apart before then surely...?
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Following the way universities closed in February I'd say we should be getting into the domino effect within a few days and back to online only within a fortnight. However the foolish promises made, the fears about fees claims and, to put a fucking cherry on top of it, johnson's announcement that 'the universities stay open' means we are in unchartered territory and that isn't going to happen. This will kill people and make others seriously ill. As well as the government, there's a collective cowardice in play amongst the VCs, too scared to do the right thing.
 
We may now be at the point where it is better for students to stay in halls and self isolate as opposed to going home (I've no idea whether that's correct and it depends how many have actually returned). But what fucking madness has led us to this situation? This was 100% predictable.
 
Wilf said:
We may now be at the point where it is better for students to stay in halls and self isolate as opposed to going home (I've no idea whether that's correct and it depends how many have actually returned). But what fucking madness has led us to this situation? This was 100% predictable.
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Wilf said:
Following the way universities closed in February I'd say we should be getting into the domino effect within a few days and back to online only within a fortnight. However the foolish promises made, the fears about fees claims and, to put a fucking cherry on top of it, johnson's announcement that 'the universities stay open' means we are in unchartered territory and that isn't going to happen. This will kill people and make others seriously ill. As well as the government, there's a collective cowardice in play amongst the VCs, too scared to do the right thing.
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Universities closed in march

All (public) universities are chartered
 
Roadkill said:
Word on the corridor in my place is that there'll be an announcement in the next 48 hours that blended learning has been scrapped and we'll be teaching entirely online until at least Christmas.
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I'm wearing a mask sitting in an empty building waiting for students to come and collect the books they've ordered. Beside me is a five litre container of alcohol gel and in front of me another 600ml which smells like meths. My manager has the long covid. I reckon we'll be closed by 15 Oct. But unlike the students us staff will be allowed to go home
 
So far the line here is that all lectures are online, but seminars/tutorials/labs are face to face “with covid safe measures in place”.

Campus is still pretty deserted though, at a welcome event on campus last weekend there were approx 800 attendees, usually there would be 10 times that. Most of the food retail outlets are also reporting very little customers so far.
 
Anyway, the only positive I can think is there's a generation of first time who thought things couldn't possibly get worse than the A Level fiasco...
 
Roadkill said:
Word on the corridor in my place is that there'll be an announcement in the next 48 hours that blended learning has been scrapped and we'll be teaching entirely online until at least Christmas.
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Word on the corridor was wrong, but how long this will remain the case I shouldn't like to say...
 
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