Students about to begin university need support to help make up for lost learning during school closures over the past year of lockdowns, as well as help addressing "socialisation issues", a university official has said.
The most educated are the least likely to get a Covid vaccine, according to a new U.S. study. While hesitancy rates have fallen across populations, it has held constant in those with PhDs.
Covid vaccine hesitancy rates have fallen across most of the U.K., according to new research by the ONS. Hesitancy among Brits aged 18 to 21 dropped to five per cent just before 'Freedom Day'.
Most leading Russell Group universities will continue to hold lectures online when the university year starts this autumn, and students at some will be told they must still wear face masks and follow social distancing.
The University of Sussex is boosting its attempts to increase vaccine take-up among its students by offering £5,000 prizes to those who can prove they have had two 'jabs'.
Plans for unvaccinated university students to be barred from attending lectures and from living in halls have been dropped, according to reports, despite Dominic Raab saying no decision would be made until September.
Students will have to wait until September to find out whether they need to be vaccinated against Covid to attend university lectures and to live in halls, according to Dominic Raab.
The Prime Minister is "raging" about the lower Covid vaccine uptake among young people, and a minister has confirmed the Government is not ruling out barring unvaccinated university students from lectures and halls.
The University and College Union, still unconvinced that it is safe for university life to return to normal, demands that all students are fully vaccinated by September and that mask mandates continue on campuses.
Cancelled work placements and silence from potential employers has pushed thousands of recent university graduates to study “panic master’s” courses, an admissions expert has warned.
