Close UK campuses to prevent second Covid-19 wave, warn British academics
4 years, 3 months ago

Close UK campuses to prevent second Covid-19 wave, warn British academics

Hindustan Times  

UK universities beginning the next academic year from September should not open campuses to prevent a major public health crisis, a leading union of lecturers warned on Sunday, given the risk to students moving across homes and campuses throughout the country amid the raging Covid-19 pandemic. The University and College Union said the movement of over a million students across the UK to universities far from homes to begin courses “risks doing untold damage to people’s health and exacerbating the worst health crisis of our lifetimes”. Claiming that the push to get students back on campus was being driven by what it called “a dangerous desire” to get back to business as usual, before it was safe to do so, the UCU said instead of allowing universities to reopen, the government should step in and underwrite any lost funding for the higher education sector. UCU general secretary Jo Grady said: “Moving a million plus students around the country is a recipe for disaster and risks leaving ill-prepared universities as the care homes of a second wave.

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4 years, 1 month ago

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Dutch News  

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4 years, 1 month ago

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Dutch News  

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India Today  

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Daily Mail  

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4 years, 2 months ago

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The Independent  

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4 years, 3 months ago

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The Telegraph  

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News 18  

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The Independent  

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India Today  

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Firstpost  

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India Today  

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India Today  

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4 years, 6 months ago

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Dutch News  

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4 years, 6 months ago

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Dutch News  

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