Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

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The more I think about it, how mental is it that they let the unis start.

Schools/sixth form (to an extent with the latter) I agree with - you need them running.

Unis - there's just no need. They could all have been done in an Open Uni style (@COYBL25 is it your lad that's pretty much doing that anyway but paying full whack?) and the government should have told the Unis they have more than enough money to get by - which they do.

Have the students going back next year/in the spring and stop the spread of it around the country.
 
The more I think about it, how mental is it that they let the unis start.

Schools/sixth form (to an extent with the latter) I agree with - you need them running.

Unis - there's just no need. They could all have been done in an Open Uni style (@COYBL25 is it your lad that's pretty much doing that anyway but paying full whack?) and the government should have told the Unis they have more than enough money to get by - which they do.

Have the students going back next year/in the spring and stop the spread of it around the country.

My lad is only fourteen mate.


However what his school have had the foresight to do in preparation for kids going off, is that every Monday they load a weeks worth of distance learning onto his school website, so that any kids going off self isolating have got work to do.
 
The more I think about it, how mental is it that they let the unis start.

Schools/sixth form (to an extent with the latter) I agree with - you need them running.

Unis - there's just no need. They could all have been done in an Open Uni style (@COYBL25 is it your lad that's pretty much doing that anyway but paying full whack?) and the government should have told the Unis they have more than enough money to get by - which they do.

Have the students going back next year/in the spring and stop the spread of it around the country.

FWIW the university sector doesnt have the money to get by; that’s why successive governments have had to bail it out with increasingly obscene sources of funding.

Major surrendered control of the purse strings when he introduced loans and the phasing out of grants and the result, as we see with the railways (and the NHS) was that a load of spivs realised the government would always pay out to keep a vital public resource going and so they could inflate the cost ad infinitum.

The system is built on the idea that the money would always be found and so any disruption in it will send most of the universities in the country into bankruptcy.
 
The more I think about it, how mental is it that they let the unis start.

Schools/sixth form (to an extent with the latter) I agree with - you need them running.

Unis - there's just no need. They could all have been done in an Open Uni style (@COYBL25 is it your lad that's pretty much doing that anyway but paying full whack?) and the government should have told the Unis they have more than enough money to get by - which they do.

Have the students going back next year/in the spring and stop the spread of it around the country.

Thing is though mate if you're paying 9k a year you want the best education possible / access to as much help and services.

I dont think I could have done well with stuff all online its not the same - I used to do alot of work in the library etc. I couldn't have stayed focus at home!
 
FWIW the university sector doesnt have the money to get by; that’s why successive governments have had to bail it out with increasingly obscene sources of funding.

Major surrendered control of the purse strings when he introduced loans and the phasing out of grants and the result, as we see with the railways (and the NHS) was that a load of spivs realised the government would always pay out to keep a vital public resource going and so they could inflate the cost ad infinitum.

The system is built on the idea that the money would always be found and so any disruption in it will send most of the universities in the country into bankruptcy.

They charge £27k for 3 years per student (at least? Where does that money go? Genuine question.

with distance learning in place anyway, why did were students told to travel across the country - another needless risk and daft decision from the government which has just put us back further,
 
Thing is though mate if you're paying 9k a year you want the best education possible / access to as much help and services.

I dont think I could have done well with stuff all online its not the same - I used to do alot of work in the library etc. I couldn't have stayed focus at home!

think is they haven’t now got that anyway. Libraries are only allowing certain amounts in etc.
The unis and government have had enough time to get a plan sorted of how to deal with it, surely?
 
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