Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Ta. Here is here suspiciously quiet twitter page.
Well, it does say she's accessible....
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Well, it does say she's accessible....
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
- St Andrews
- Edinburgh Napier
- Glasgow
- Stirling
- Oxford Brookes
- Bath
- Manchester Metropolitan
- Liverpool
- Swansea
- Aberdeen
- Robert Gordon
- Abertay
- Exeter
- Queen Margaret
- Kent
- Uni of West England (Bristol)
- Leeds
- Warwick
- De Montfort (Leicester)
- Gloucestershire
- Hull
- Newcastle
- Durham
- Salford
- Northumbria
- Essex
- Dundee ???
- Heriot Watt
- Edinburgh
- Glasgow Caledonian
- Aston
- Coventry
- Portsmouth
- Staffordshire
- York St John
- Uni of South Wales
- Aberystwyth
- Uni of Leicester
- Plymouth
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Not that I know of but theres no reason I would know. unless the accommodation is shared but any mention of halls only mentions abertay. Abertay used to be polytechnic. It specialises in IT these days I think. I think whoever just doesn't realise there are two unis.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
most likely.
...but the Sky report says:
"Another suspected COVID-19 outbreak at Parker House in Dundee led to the quarantine of its 500 student residents from Abertay University and Dundee University."
I guess a private Hall could have students from more than one institution?
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Ok. I'd only seen abertay mentioned in relation to parker house*. Maybe some dundee students are self isolating but no positive tests as yet? Its quibbling really. Give it a few more days and I'm sure you can confidently add Dundee!
Fugly edifice btw.
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
cybershot
Well-Known Member
Won’t most students interpret ‘this is sick’ as being something that is a good thing.
BlanketAddict
Well-Known Member
BBC reporting that students in halls in Manchester are 'being prevented from leaving' by security.
A serious escalation of policy isn't it? Can they legally prevent your freedom of movement like that?
A serious escalation of policy isn't it? Can they legally prevent your freedom of movement like that?
Cid
Proper break this time
I reckon they've probably come up with a new word by now.
Cid
Proper break this time
Probably a situation that needs a court case to actually decide... It's pretty dubious though on a purely instinctive slightly drunk Saturday night reading.
elbows
Well-Known Member
I think when I quoted it as a breaking story last night, earlier in this thread, the threat may have hinged on the 'if you leave you cant come back' bit, which I suppose they coul impose via their own accommodation & conduct terms rather than requiring some law of the land to backup the simpler 'you cant leave' threat.
Evening News report on the MMU situation.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
MMU students were met by 'security' as they tried to leave halls
Student halls at Birley Campus and Cambridge Hall have been locked down for a fortnight due to a surge in Covid-19 cases
Cid
Proper break this time
Slight misreading on my part... Was thinking more along the lines of restricting going back while there's still an outbreak. But on the broader principle... It's something that universities/halls probably already take into account to some extent anyway, in contractual terms. And there isn't going to be recourse to something like long term occupation. It's... ending a tenancy. I mean it requires reasonable notice etc, but if the tenant has left of their own volition...
I don't know the details, not saying it would be right. But it is a very, very different situation from saying 'you can't leave'.
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Cid
Proper break this time
Probably got my lines crossed again... Stopping someone from going back after, e.g, they'd gone to the shops, more problematic than stopping someone who's actually left to stay elsewhere.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Yeah, I'm doing a course at the moment. Two 2 hour sessions a week. 1,500 participants from so many different countries I can't even guess, simultaneous translation into 7 languages, run twice a day coordinated across timezones, and the first session went fine. All run by a small NGO with very little money. How the fuck haven't universities got something far less complicated than that together? (Rhetorical question... £££££ is why.)
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
College. They are part of the university of london
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Yea I know someone who works for them. They've moved everything online till next year. They're where a lot of the covid research is going on I think.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
Because they're subject to the same rules as the rest of the country, group of 6, etc. To exempt them would be very complicated. Same as them not being allowed to leave their residence, think that can be enforced for anyone supposed to be self isolating.
