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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It's Durham.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
- St Andrews – 4 cases, 40 isolating
- Edinburgh Napier – 11 cases
- Glasgow – 124 cases
- Stirling – “a student”
- Oxford Brookes - “small but growing number”
- Bath – “small number”
- Manchester Metropolitan – “a handful of confirmed cases [32?]… after ‘100-strong’ party”
- Liverpool – 80 students and 7 staff
- Swansea – 12 students
- Aberdeen (Guardian summary) - "number unconfirmed"
- Robert Gordon (Ibid) - 2
- Abertay (Ibid) - Four cases, 500 isolating
- Exeter - "small number of students tested positive"
- Queen Margaret - "A number of students isolating after one positive"
- Kent - 2 confirmed cases on campus
- Uni of West England (Bristol) - 1 student tested positive, not symptomatic
- Leeds - 6 confirmed cases
- Warwick (Ibid) - 1
- De Montfort (Leicester) (Ibid)
- Gloucestershire
- Hull
- Newcastle - 22 students, 8 staff
- Durham
- Salford
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Far faster growth than schools then. (in terms of % of sites affected)
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
I assume it was your BF then? Nowadays the BF would not have got the council flat.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Edinburgh Napier should say 120 cases.
120 cases of coronavirus identified in an outbreak at another university in Edinburgh
NHS Lothian confirmed the positive results at the establishment.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yep, though I suppose you'd expect that as 2 or 3 cases in a large institution push the overall figure up by something approaching 1%, whereas 2 or 3 cases in a School don't have an effect of that magnitude (you'll probably have guessed that I don't teach research methods
). But still, we are well on the way to a majority of instituions having cases.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yeah I think most of those numbers have grown since they first posted. MMU UCU are saying "cases in every department" or similar.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yep, though I suppose you'd expect that as 2 or 3 cases in a large institution push the overall figure up by something approaching 1%, whereas 2 or 3 cases in a School don't have an effect of that magnitude (you'll probably have guessed that I don't teach research methods
Regardless the reading of "18% of Universities have Covid cases" versus "5% of schools have Covid cases" may produce different responses
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Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Yeah, just a bit...
Again, just think this is inevitable. Each uni is basically like a small town, purely statistically there are going to be cases.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yeah, just a bit...
Again, just think this is inevitable. Each uni is basically like a small town, purely statistically there are going to be cases.
Except that small towns can't just drastically shrink by shifting mostly online if they wanted...
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yeah and to be honest, we are well on the way to Covid becoming endemic across the university sector. Just about perfect mechanisms for spreading the disease. Well done government.
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Well, yes, this is true.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
There’s definitely a case for introducing a more modern version of the old Soviet Union correspondence courses imo and shutting the universities down for a year .
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
I'm not going to even guess at the figures, but we must be at the point where a significant proportion of students setting off for halls or shared accommodation this weekend will end up self isolating or under some form of lockdown over the next month (or at least should be self isolating if test and trace were working). Anybody playing the percentages at the moment would tell their kids not to sign accommodation contracts and work on the assumption they can do the degree from the family home.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
If they do that, and who could blame them?, those Universities with deals to underwrite "no shows" for the privately run Halls will be utterly fucked.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Yeah the only honest and practical advice you could give to students who don't need to be on campus for the specifics of their case is keep the hell away.
And like you say, I'm not sure how the universities extract themselves from this mess of their own making.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
So, there’s a testing centre been setup on campus so that every single student can get a test. Guess how many turned up for their appointment today?
One.
For. Fucks. Sake
One.
For. Fucks. Sake
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
- St Andrews – 4 cases, 40 isolating
- Edinburgh Napier – 11 cases
- Glasgow – 124 cases
- Stirling – “a student”
- Oxford Brookes - “small but growing number”
- Bath – “small number”
- Manchester Metropolitan – “a handful of confirmed cases [32?]… after ‘100-strong’ party”
- Liverpool – 80 students and 7 staff
- Swansea – 12 students
- Aberdeen (Guardian summary) - "number unconfirmed"
- Robert Gordon (Ibid) - 2
- Abertay (Ibid) - Four cases, 500 isolating
- Exeter - "small number of students tested positive"
- Queen Margaret - "A number of students isolating after one positive"
- Kent - 2 confirmed cases on campus
- Uni of West England (Bristol) - 1 student tested positive, not symptomatic
- Leeds - 6 confirmed cases
- Warwick (Ibid) - 1
- De Montfort (Leicester) (Ibid)
- Gloucestershire
- Hull
- Newcastle - 22 students, 8 staff
- Durham
- Salford
- Northumbria
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miss direct
misfungled
yeah, it was. Don't see why not. He was technically "homeless" and it was a shitty tower block that noone wanted to live in.
miss direct
misfungled
Well, there are a lot of international students who have been struggling to get visas, flights, etc - they are coming no matter what. I know because I'm teaching them at the moment (online - am flabbergasted that anyone would think that's a good idea this year - the fees are double that of home students, if I'm not wrong).It's horribly cynical that the Cardiff and Swansea lockdowns aren't until Sunday to allow lots more young people to get stuck here before they start.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
Because getting into one of those shitty tower blocks is also really fucking difficult.
miss direct
misfungled
I don't think it was that easy then, it's not like he got it overnight. Knowing him, there was probably something dodgy going on like someone knew someone at the council. No idea.
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
These days, even with contacts, it would be impossible. Even in the shittiest areas of the country. There aren't any squats, either.
miss direct
misfungled
Impossible? So who actually lives in council flats then?
Sorry this is all going rather off topic. I briefly looked into applying to be on the list for council housing but seems I'm not even eligible to be on the list.
Sorry this is all going rather off topic. I briefly looked into applying to be on the list for council housing but seems I'm not even eligible to be on the list.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Salford mentioned in this piece as well:
Halt in-person university teaching until test and trace fixed, union urges
Exclusive: UCU general secretary Jo Grady speaks out after rapid rise in Covid cases on campuses
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
It's unusual to meet someone under 40 with a tenancy, and if they do it's because of problems that will usually make it difficult for them to date, at least in the casual partying way you're talking about.
I'm not sure how to explain that single young people getting council flats is just not going to happen because it's been the reality for quite a long time. That sounds arsey, and it's not meant to be, so apologies for the way it comes across.
