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I've long been really torn on the in person teaching debate, but one aspect of it that I've been reflecting on over the past week is what I've been thinking

There's been a lot of focus on tuition fees and whether loss of access to campus services and facilities gives students legal rights to partial refunds. Much commentary has stressed

It's not so much that the guidance about Christmas is a problem, it's the wider operating environment in which it operates. An example. Plenty of students need part time work.

One of the big problems we've got is that decision makers think it's like this But of course it's really like this So decision makers think they're doing this But

So I am reliably informed from various sources that at a meeting of Michelle Donelan’s higher education task force this week, the issue of the “rule of six” and the

Wow. DfE orders root and branch review of NSS - and not of the character that OfS was going to run pre-pandemic... Says NSS has exerted a “downwards pressure” on

Now if you were a casual listener to BBCR4AQ tonight you'd have heard @stellacreasy challenge the universities minister in student hardship, digital divide etc. At this point @michelledonelan said that

Offers, courses being full etc. A lil thread. Notwithstanding some legal disagreement over whether the same judgement works be reached today the settled view is that students who meet their

I find it breathtaking that there's basically not a student in the UK that understands the steps their local director of Public Health is taking re students, community transmission and

Some brief thoughts on where I think we're at. Most campuses have a plan on safe "visiting" and "working" but these plans do involve significantly reducing capacity of previously already

Is government policy on HE as has emerged in recent days in any way new or a surprise? A thread. "On a recent visit to the barber, my hair was

“True social mobility” - a thread. How many of those lines from Michelle Donelan should be familiar? Have we heard them before? I don't mean generally - I mean specifically

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