I'm not a lecturer, I'm a final year PhD student but I can see the incredible amount of work that lecturers have done/are doing to support UG and taught PG students. They are working twice as hard to ensure that students get the learning 1/4
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appropriate to their course. Also, those lecturers are people too. They have all the other life challenges going on too. So please, when talking about concerns about students learning and experiences this year and in the coming year,
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be aware of just how much hard work is going on behind the scenes. Complaining that students shouldn't pay full fees because they will only receive online teaching can not only be demoralising to the staff working hard to ensure quality,
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but also not true. There are lots of benefits to online learning, especially when so much work is being put into making it as good as it can be. Please be kind and remember that there are humans working hard to ensure students are able to learn.
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