This week the UK governments wonderful support of students;
Pubs - open Hairdressers - open Tattoo Shops - open Gyms - open Teach on a covid secure campus with twice weekly testing for final year students on practical Art & Design course - no comment
Flipping heck - fuming
@adamprocter I wonder if they think education is fine online so they don't need to change anything…or they don't care/forgot.
@wearsmanyhats I think your right. They are basically shifting the hey “you deal with it” onto educators. And also probably saying well “you did alright so far” but not counting the staff and students anxiety / long term impacts etc of shifting an entire year to distance online with next to zero tangible support for Universities. Being well groomed and tatood is more important than educating a large chunk of future society in the best ways possible in current circumstances which would be to open up our campus’s for as much as is safe in person teaching and blended. Done so much this year to make things work and the non announcement is frankly insulting.
@ChrisJWilson if they cared they would have used the magic money tree to give all HE students an reduced fee year. Teaching would still have been excellent and we would have still done our best but students would have felt supported and more with that simple act of support for education. But economy more important than education. Sure that’s a rather simplistic answer to a complicated issue I and many others have been battling through. But I’m pretty confident the front bench have no idea why the creative industries are so important to the economy.
@adamprocter Our government here is failing people in a similar fashion. We just went into our third state of emergency and stay-at-home order, and our ICUs are being overrun by younger essential workers. No plans to fully open up vaccinations to them until mid-May at the earliest, with the exception of hot spots. Essential workers should have already been vaccinated along with teachers and school staff, but they continue to ignore where the fires are burning and then wonder why things are getting dire.