But even within the internal logic of starmer's critical support arsery, this would provide the perfect opportunity to highlight appalling failure and to position Labour on the side of students and university staff. Maybe they are waiting for Marcus Rashford to take the lead? Trouble is he's busy and on a long coach ride back from Brighton today.
'Turn up to our safe campus and get covid. Take a test and get stuck in the plague ship for another two weeks' - scenarios rejected by Kafka as being too silly.
Sidelined Long-Bailey of course - who whatever her flaws was willing to come along and talk at virtual meetings of union membersI've just been trying to find a Labour Party response to the campus outbreaks and can't.
Main story that crops up when you search is Kate Green apologising for saying Labour should take advantage of the crisis in general and that it's a 'good crisis'.
Labour Party apologises after shadow education secretary 'calls COVID-19 a good crisis'
Shadow education secretary Kate Green was speaking at a Labour event on Sunday.uk.style.yahoo.com
It's all students will end up doing this term
I suspect staff are happily taking it up though.
Really captures the feeling in HE right nowThis article by an academic i just read is very good - pulls it all together.
End of the line for universities?
When the bough breaks, it breaks big, and the fall of the limb exposes all the weakness and the rot within. That’s what’s happening in Brita...publicpolicypast.blogspot.com
of course. what else was going to happen? they shouldn't have made the unis open.Students in South Manchester
Snapchat videos show huge illegal student party at Owens Park in Fallowfield
The University of Manchester said it 'strongly condemns' the behaviour of the studentswww.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Bit of a microcosm of the whole things going on in this thread. I'm 59 and worried/angry/incredulous about the virus spreading via universities. Suspect most of the people posting on this are a bit younger than me but a lot are 40 plus. Then you've got some 18 year olds doing what 18 years olds do in the very places we are all worried about. And finally there are the Universities and government who couldn't conceive of a future that didn't involve turning halls of residence into plague ships. We truly are fucked.Students in South Manchester
Snapchat videos show huge illegal student party at Owens Park in Fallowfield
The University of Manchester said it 'strongly condemns' the behaviour of the students
www.bbc.co.uk
Aye, sorry, certainly didn't mean to criticise those who are doing the best they can, and it's no surprise that such services are under-resourced at the best of times.I have a bit of contact with local Uni wellbeing services through my work; they'll be run ragged checking up on the students who are talking about suicide/floridly psychotic/have severe eating disorders etc and their immediate neighbours stuck in possibly very traumatic situations to be able to offer much in the way of general pastoral care. The fact that those services were overwhelmed in normal years is another reason this should not have happened.
The fact is these students should receive pastoral care; it's shocking that they aren't, but part of the scandal of this is everyone with power in this sector must have known that wasn't possible going into this.
Aye, that's certainly more what I was going for in my original post, just wasn't sure it had come acrossI didn't see you criticising
Minister of State for Universities = Michelle Donelan
