Universities to Continue Holding Online Lectures and Will Tell Students to Wear Face Masks and to Follow Social Distancing
Many students hoping to begin a normal university term this autumn will be disappointed to find that, while the Covid figures give cause for restrictions to be abandoned, very little will actually change from last year.
Almost all of the leading Russel Group universities have indicated that a proportion of their teaching will continue to be held online while students will still be expected to wear face masks on campuses and to continue social distancing. Not to mention the impending introduction of vaccine passports. The Sunday Times has the story.
The universities’ decision coincides with a clear fall in Covid cases. Even normally cautious scientists, such as Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London, said that lockdowns and other restrictive measures were unlikely to be needed again.
Of the leading 24 Russell Group universities, 20 said that a proportion of undergraduate teaching will continue to be held online.
Lord Baker of Dorking, the former Conservative Education Secretary, said the universities stance was “outrageous”, and that they must return to normal as a matter of urgency this autumn. “Pubs, cinemas, theatres and football matches have all opened without restrictions,” he said. “What’s different about universities?”
University College London, the London School of Economics, Imperial College, Cardiff and Leeds all said that lectures would continue to be held online.
Warwick, Nottingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh said they would offer “blended learning” – a mix of online and face-to-face teaching for classes, seminars and lectures – but were unable to guarantee how much in-person teaching students would receive. Nottingham said it hoped to restart full face-to-face teaching next year, “subject to the course of the pandemic”.
Demands that free masks and free PCR tests be handed out to students and used are being led by the Universities and Colleges Union, which is also demanding social distancing on campus and that students get double jabbed. …
Cambridge said most teaching would be in person, but that some would be online, with details to be confirmed. Oxford said it planned most learning in person “enhanced by online teaching” and said some exams would continue to be held online next year.
Students at Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool have already launched petitions calling for a full return to “normality in terms of teaching” and demanding fee refunds. At Manchester, where some of the strictest lockdowns took place, nearly 10,000 have signed. Many students are still waiting to hear details of how their degree courses are to be taught when term starts next month. …
The Department for Education said: “Education providers are able to shape their courses without restrictions on face-to-face provision.”
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At last….
Excellent new public health information video to help people to be informed before giving consent to be vaccinated.
Will be aired on BBC, ITV, SKY and other main media outlets.
Stay safe.
https://videopress.com/v/p8R7ebPy
Here’s another one – The spike protein.
A PATHOLOGIST SUMMARY OF WHAT THESE JABS DO TO THE BRAIN AND OTHER ORGANS (rumble.com)
Guilty until proven innocent.
But do they really need to air those videos at all? Certainly not in the USA. It seems that the FDA is facing criticism for being slow to grant full approval for the vaccines, ‘despite clinical trials overwhelmingly proving the vaccines are safe and effective.’ Backed up by
MengeleFauci, of course. And if he says it, it must be true.Very good. Thank you. Also terrifying.
Nice one. I will send that to headmistress of daughter’s school to help with ensuring informed consent is properly informed.
Dr. Ryan Cole a warrior on the side of all of us who do not believe the fda, nih, MHRA Covid narrative. He is just one of many fighting for our rights to remain unvaccinated, unmasked, unlocked down.
This is one of the best videos explaining our hesitancy. Why would anyone agree to take the experimental biologicals after watching this. I will never understand how so many people have been bamboozled. Two friends now have racing heart rates, one diagnosed with a fib. The other also has shortness of breath. Both of their symptoms occurred post vaccination. Probably just coincidental.
It was only when I read this:
That I realised that the whole piece was satire and not meant to be taken seriously.
I read the title literally and thought that nothing surprised me anymore. I can just imagine students sitting there at home wearing a face mask to an online lecture.
All students should defer this new year, and not book accommodation. See what happens.
Yes. And also be prepared to claim an exemption to face masks en masse, if it comes to it.
Universities are desperately arse covering, given that their finest brains were in the vanguard of putting the country through this utterly pointless shitshow for the last 17 months.
Students resist. Defer for a year as Bobby rightly says.
Universities never reopened after the start of lockdown in March 2020, and this fact receive very little attention from the media. At least with schools there was public pressure to reopen them, and a debate of the harms.
It has been obvious for a long time that without direct intervention from the government (and to be honest I am not sure they actually have the power to do this) directing unis to get back to normal, they will continue like this forever, unless a significant number of them break ranks and offer a better experience. But with the Russell Group operating as a cartel, there is no hope of that.
We are a million miles away from victory in this war.
Notice how it has gone very quiet since July 19th. Don’t you wonder what is coming next? CNBC announced yesterday fauci is working on getting Pfizer’s gene injection approval status by end of August. This means once approved it can be mandated. Looks like the next step is on its way. Uk won’t be far behind.
The universities need to be challenged on home territory – the academic justifiability of practising black magic.
We need the Russell cabal to run nursing homes and the nursing homes to run the universities.
There’s too many senile people in academia.
Are there any university degrees in Common sense ?
In the context of the coronamadness what they are doing makes perfect sense. They will only change if forced to regulators or competitors.
Sense is never common.
‘Common Sense’ is another name for received prejudice. Which the universities are practising with gusto.
Think for yourself, grow a spine and ensure that you are one of the few uncompromised people, who will become the future leaders, by insisting upon remaining unmuzzled and unvaccinated, by using your inalienable right to an exemption for both.
Indeed, though if your lectures are online only and normal university life such as clubs, societies, social and sporting events are all suspended or cancelled, the experience is still massively diminished. I would advise my kids to look at at online-only uni, maybe over 2 years rather than 3, or learn a trade or get a job, or try to find a uni that looks like it is solidly behind operating normally, perhaps abroad.
yes abroad.any idea where? florida ?
Sweden. Many courses are conducted in English.
is sweden draconian about the ‘injections’? i thought i read that awhile ago sure hope not , they’re trying to turn draconian in the u. s.[ blue states ] eager to s ee their downfall
What if the Swedish don’t want any Brits moving there? I imagine any courses conducted there in English are for the immigrants from the Middle East, most with the title “Learn Swedish”.
And now that Volvo is owned by the Chinese, you’ll be one step closer to that Social Credit App on your phone.
And let me tell you, Swedish television is one of the most boring going, all they have is ‘in-depth interviews’.
Sweden has a high suicide rate because… quite frankly… it is so boring there.
I’ve no idea about going to university there but a while back I think they were not admitting Brits at all, but that might have changed now.
I don’t know the place all that well but we spent a very happy week there last autumn and compared to the UK it was anything but boring. A little quiet, admittedly, but much more relaxed than the UK. We were in Stockholm and the people, young and old, seemed pretty normal to me. Might be worth considering for uni as an alternative to perpetually closed campuses and online learning, if not as a destination to settle forever.
It’s about three things;
> Making sure young people accept jabs
> Conditioning young people for future strict control measures – no jab no job, ‘credit’ for ‘doing the right thing’, and never questioning ‘authority’.
> Universities towing the government line
And perhaps China destroying the UK through denying a proper education to its citizens. They really hated the ‘academics’ during the ‘Chinese Cultural Revolution’ – now that the UK more or less belongs to China (where do you think all the furlough money has come from?), it looks like the Chinese are softening the country up for impending invasion by getting rid of intellectual ability.
OK, that may seem a bit nutty, but not much worse than having your vaccine status attached to your bank card (Mastercard is working on this).
The Chinese are no saints, and will play the game – but this shit is home-excreted.
Well, home and most other rich nations. Neither Chinese nor British – true diversity in the shitshow. Human weakness and wickedness.
may as well use the Open University, at least they teach online properly.
Or even by post and printed paper before the term ‘online’ was invented! I did a fair bit of that in the late 1980s.
How long before the universities are pleading with students and their parents not to defer?
Students and their tuition-fee paying parents are not stupid. Universities might have got away with this nonsense last year, but they will not this year.
I wish you turn out to be right but I have my doubts. Some will defer, but probably not enough to cause a change in policy
Also, my bingo card is ready for this to be followed up with “get your jab to save university”.
LOL! So students will be required to wear masks and social distance on campus, then they will go down the pub…!
Hahaha!
Yes its daft isn’t it – completely bonkers.
Worse than daft. From my daughter’s experience, campus was virtually closed as all but the stuff that couldn’t be done online was shut down, so I thiny they’d struggle to actually find out who their fellow coursemates were in order to arrange to meet at the pub.
Meanwhile over the pond.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/laugh-obama-liberal-elites-spotted-maskless-swank-birthday-gala-marthas-vineyard-rest-country-hunkers-pandemic/
In the US, academic faculty and administrators are the most fanatical, hysterical covid cultists in the country. No doubt that a steady stream of MSNBC and the NYTimes keeps that in place. Mask mandates, vaxx mandates, social distancing, online classes, and a policy of punishment for all dissenters and people who cannot for health reasons conform to mandates. The era of witch hunters has returned.
Message to students, the best university is the university of life. Most students will not get the vast salaries and jobs promised by traditional university education, they will end up in debt and in a bog-standard job (you guess), the minority will get the top jobs because they know (you guess).
“the best university is the university of life”
Oh – p..le..ase! Not trite garbage as icing on the shit-show.
Actually not bad advice these days. I genuinely doubt that most modern university courses are worth what they cost, and most of their value is that it allows you to tick the box on silly employer requirements that only exist because they’ve been made possible by the absurd expansion in university access.
I have a degree, as does my wife, and three of our four children, but I don’t think the fourth has lost out much by choosing not to go.
Meanwhile Dave Leduc has the message students should be giving their university admins:
Dave Leduc – Canadian Lethwei fighter – Klartext
Let’s face it, it’s pretty much the message the current generation would have given to authority trying to boss them around back when they were students. The f’ing hypocrites.
Enrol now for an MA in Advanced Cowardice, Preternatural Prevarication, Abysmal Ignorance and Obvious Obfuscation.
Problematic businesses, facilities or service providers? Don’t stop using them. Use them more often. PLAY THEIR GAME. The law is still on our side. Discrimination. Exemptions. FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. Useful information and links: https://www.LCAHub.org/
Fuck petitions! Occupy your campuses. Protest! Do something!
Any guesses as to what’s going to happen this Autumn? Are all the schoolchildren, teenagers and college students going to get ‘vaccinated to protect others’? Or will their parents really put up a good resistance?
Time for a laugh. Before they cart us off to the gas chambers. Pinched from t’other site (reddit LS):
https://twitter.com/ZeroCOVID4Ever?s=20
Legal action being taken against the MHRA with regard to vaccination of children. https://www.covid19assembly.org/2021/07/covid19-assembly-take-legal-action-against-mhra-to-halt-child-vaccinations/
Hard to tell whether we should be laughing or crying….. This guy actually does a pretty good everyday brownshirt impression when he’s signing these folk up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBRLUGMeBL4
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These institutions aren’t universities. They are institutions for making easy money. They do not teach a thing.
This is blatant political opportunism. Don’t forget that the lecturers’ union was striking before this all happened.
Having said that, there are some complete hysterics in universities. I attended a Zoom meeting with people from my old college a week ago. The handful of people who were actually in Durham were sitting in a large Gothic room with high ceilings and the original draughty windows with ridiculous masks over their faces. The meeting was important because it concerned the university’s plans to ‘redevelop’ the college but, with the masks and the room’s echo, it was impossible to hear what people were saying. They looked ridiculous too!
Notice what Imperial College is doing, Saruman’s seat of power,
They already know what will happen next.
I discussed vaccine mandates, social distancing and face mask requirements with my university of choice recently.
Their advice was to “wait and see” what the government decides but to continue with my placement.
So I because they have my best interest at heart I decided to follow their advice.
I’ve deferred my placement and I’ll wait and see what the state of play is next year – if it’s the same show of shit I’ll have a year of figuring out something else to do in the meantime.
Why are they still banging on about PCR tests? They simply pick up fragments of any old infections…and are not fit for purpose (according to the inventor)
Muzzles increase chances of Bacterial Pneumonia…
and ‘double jabbed’? John Bell of SAGE has already stated the jabs will sterilise 60-70% of the childbearing population.
Why even bother going to university?
Of course, a huge debt and not much chance of a job anyway.