Smaller class sizes push more teaching into evenings and weekends

“Recognising how hard staff have been working through the lockdown and into recovery, universities are having constructive conversations with sector trade unions to keep students and staff safe and to optimise learning, research and support.” BULLSHIT! Some Universities aren't even doing their usual basic consultation, 'this is what the senior management has decided, take it or leave it', and are ruling by diktat following their socially distanced meetings on teams to which NO Trades Union representation is invited. Meanwhile some 'remote' campuses (10 miles from main campus, not the other side of the world) are ignoring requirements for one-way systems of human flow and any number of other COVID-SAFE workplace requirements. The Academic's involved however won't be student facing in person, they'll be delivering lectures safely from home, whilst Technicians are expected to work 12 hour days delivering practical's repeatedly to 'small' groups exposing them to all 3 year groups in a week. Planning may be well 'advanced' at the highest levels, Portacabin cities have been erected in car-parks, so back on the buses with infectious students for you, but the reality is no-one who will be working on campus will be safe from exposure, especially once the freshers parties and other 'activities' off campus get started.