UK's Cambridge University to hold all lectures online next year

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UK's Cambridge University to hold all lectures online next year

 

FILE PHOTO: Bikes are seen outside Cambridge University, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Cambridge, Britain, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Couldridge/File Photo

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Cambridge University became one of the first in the world on Wednesday to announce that all its lectures would be delivered online over the next academic year because of the coronavirus outbreak.

 

The university, which shut its campuses to students in March after the British government introduced a strict lockdown to curb the spread of COVID-19, said teaching would be delivered virtually until summer 2021, although it was possible some smaller teaching groups might be able to occur in person.

 

"Given that it is likely that social distancing will continue to be required, the university has decided there will be no face-to-face lectures during the next academic year," the university said in a statement.

 

It said the decision could be reviewed depending on official guidance on dealing with the virus.

 

"We must all be realistic ... about the world-wide challenges posed by the pandemic," the university's Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope said in a statement last week.

 

"University life here, as everywhere, will need to adapt."

 

A spokeswoman for Univerisities UK said the Cambridge announcement appeared to be the first in the United Kingdom to apply to the whole year.

 

California State University, decided last week to make fall term classes virtual, one of the first in the United States to do so, amid fears of a second wave of infections.

 

Britain's universities minister said earlier this month that institutions could still charge the full tuition fee of 9,250 pounds ($11,320) as long as they maintained high standards of online teaching.

 

Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of the university watchdog the Office for Students, told lawmakers on Monday that students needed to know what education they would be offered before they accepted places.

 

"What we don't want to see are promises that it's all going to be back to usual - an on-campus experience - when it turns out that's not the case," she said.

 

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[blazes]

Stephen Toope?  the idiot who vetoed awarding Jordan Peterson a faculty position for one term last year because of some snowflake protests that his presence at Cambridge might contaminate their puny minds.

 

And now he takes the concept of "safe spaces" to their logical conclusion: shut down the whole place so that no one can ever experience what a university is all about.

 

What monumental bs.  Emphasis on "mental".

[faraday]

Ah yes, use Covid as an excuse for some lecturers to do even less...

 

Here's a link that explains what Blazes was referring to:

 

https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/blog-posts/cambridge-university-rescinds-my-fellowship/

 

Must go & find a safe space now ...need to do some colouring.

[Cryingdick]

Youtube has basically replaced universities these days anyway. The whole scam of a university education is becoming widely spread now.  

[cmsally]

One assumes that the Vice Chancellor's salary won't be affected. Just Google it to see the numbers!

[faraday]

£475k!

 

 

[cmsally]

1 hour ago, faraday said:

£475k!

 

 

I think you will find at one stage the recipient called it "reasonable" - when it was questioned and appeared in the press a few years ago.

[Chomper Higgot]

2 hours ago, cmsally said:

I think you will find at one stage the recipient called it "reasonable" - when it was questioned and appeared in the press a few years ago.

VC of one of the world’s top universities, not at all unreasonable.

 

 

[Chomper Higgot]

3 hours ago, Cryingdick said:

Youtube has basically replaced universities these days anyway. The whole scam of a university education is becoming widely spread now.  

I suggest if you ever need surgery or dental work you opt for a ‘you-tube’ trained surgeon/dentist, s/he might be able to give you a cheaper rate.

[faraday]

24 minutes ago, Chomper Higgot said:

VC of one of the world’s top universities, not at all unreasonable.

 

 

If their salaries weren't so high, then maybe student loans could be less.

[Chomper Higgot]

45 minutes ago, faraday said:

If their salaries weren't so high, then maybe student loans could be less.

I doubt there are many complaints about the cost of tuition at Cambridge.

[Baerboxer]

10 hours ago, blazes said:

Stephen Toope?  the idiot who vetoed awarding Jordan Peterson a faculty position for one term last year because of some snowflake protests that his presence at Cambridge might contaminate their puny minds.

 

And now he takes the concept of "safe spaces" to their logical conclusion: shut down the whole place so that no one can ever experience what a university is all about.

 

What monumental bs.  Emphasis on "mental".

 

Yes, yes, but you see Professor Peterson is a high quality, well respected, world renowned expert.

 

One has to way that against being a politically correct numpty.

 

Clearly, the politically correct Toope supports the latter as precedent. After all, don't want those students thinking and forming their own views and opinions. 

[Baerboxer]

8 hours ago, cmsally said:

One assumes that the Vice Chancellor's salary won't be affected. Just Google it to see the numbers!

 

Quite reasonable for a cushy job for one of those with the right politically correct views.

 

Remember, some must be more equal!