Universities are forcing students to go to their graduations alone, while families watch online, in spite of the scrapping of Covid restrictions. I wonder how many of these students are regretting taking out £45,000 loans?
Schools have begun moving to "remote learning" for the final week of term in spite of Boris saying children should remain in the classroom unless it is a “public health emergency”. Why? Step forward the teaching unions.
We're publish an impassioned plea on the Daily Sceptic by law professor David McGrogan urging universities not to switch to 'remote learning' next term in response to the Omicron panic.
by Dr. Sinéad Murphy Students spilling out of one of the large secondary schools in Newcastle are all wearing masks again. Evidently, that school at least has revived its requirement for masking, on account of rising ‘case’ numbers among teenagers in the city. And worse: the BBC reported that on September 30th as many as 2.5% of those enrolled at English state schools were exiled from school altogether for reasons to do with Covid. The ease with which schools are reverting to covering children’s faces and excluding those who ‘test positive for Covid’ (an entirely unscientific description) makes one wonder whether there is an affinity between our institutions of education and the masking and distancing of the Covid era. Covid is not responsible for everything that it has exacerbated. Measures taken by schools against it have certainly diminished the personal and palpable content of children’s lives – people in masks might as well be anyone, and nothing on a screen offers much of sensory stimulation. But is neglect of the personal and palpable in fact a general principle of our schools? Is this what explains their complacent revival of masked and remote learning? * * * After one-and-a-half years of almost no school at all, our little boy with autism is now attending for three days in the week. We ...
Only three of the U.K.'s top 27 universities have decided to return to full in-person teaching this term, with the other 24 having opted instead for a 'blended' approach including online learning.
The Department for Education has instructed schools to be prepared for the reintroduction of face masks in classrooms and for the return of remote learning in case of "local outbreaks of Covid".
