University of West London promises fully in-person teaching

As most universities say they will keep some elements online in the autumn term, London institution plans to buck the trend

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September 1, 2021
Last updated
September 3, 2021
Anna McKie
Interior view of Heartspace as the niversity of West London announces fully in-person teaching
Source: UWL
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Reader's comments (13)

#1 Submitted by Tom Gardiner on September 1, 2021 - 8:50am
Some sanity at last. Our students were never at risk and our universities have let them down disgracefully. It was sad to see how many academics bough into the official fears and didn't have the whit to read the evidence and sign the Barrington Declaration.
#2 Submitted by anthonymcn on September 2, 2021 - 10:02am
Oh dear!
#3 Submitted by john lim on September 3, 2021 - 11:38am
well done, UWL Good luck
#4 Submitted by lucy_neville2008_btinternet_com on September 1, 2021 - 10:38am
The Barrington Declaration was not based on evidence. Just a load of wishful thinking.
#5 Submitted by Tom Gardiner on September 2, 2021 - 2:40am
No wishful thinking. The outcomes prove it: Now it's clear that vaccines aren't nearly as effective in preventing infection and transmission as a natural exposure to a virus that is only fatal in old people in poor health. I'm 70 years old, take minimal exercise and drink too much, but I was happy to do my gratis lectures if our institution would have allowed it. 6 members of my immediate family have had the virus and my student granddaughters were over it in 3 days. My hypertensive 75 year old sister took longer and her 78 year old husband needed supplemental oxygen, but they're fine. Why destroy society for people who've lived their lives and are on borrowed time. If covid doesn't get us the next bad flu will. Life is for living not for cringing in fear.
#6 Submitted by hector.... on September 1, 2021 - 11:05am
Dunno… the evidence is pretty clear that students moving in leads to more Covid cases. https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/CovidEconomics80.pdf#Paper1 It’s going to be an interesting Autumn. Policymakers have really not internalised that those least likely to be vaccinated (or had two jags) are those very same people some folks are very keen on getting together in a room. And this is before we completely discount the long term costs of long Covid.
#7 Submitted by Tom Gardiner on September 2, 2021 - 2:46am
What're called "cases" is open to interpretation. What matters is the death toll and that's miniscule now that the medics know how to treat the old people with co-morbidites.
#8 Submitted by hector.... on September 3, 2021 - 11:25am
Cases are legitimately tested number of people who had contracted Covid -19. As you may not know, even being double jagged does not prevent getting long Covid. Now with regards to the paper, the student effect is anything is underestimated as last autumn close contacts were not told to test. People were simply told to isolate. So the potential for students moving in to towns and cities to really increase cases , with potentially disastrous results should be taken carefully in consideration by policymakers.
#9 Submitted by hector.... on September 3, 2021 - 11:25am
Cases are legitimately tested number of people who had contracted Covid -19. As you may not know, even being double jagged does not prevent getting long Covid. Now with regards to the paper, the student effect is anything is underestimated as last autumn close contacts were not told to test. People were simply told to isolate. So the potential for students moving in to towns and cities to really increase cases , with potentially disastrous results should be taken carefully in consideration by policymakers.
#10 Submitted by hector.... on September 3, 2021 - 11:25am
Cases are legitimately tested number of people who had contracted Covid -19. As you may not know, even being double jagged does not prevent getting long Covid. Now with regards to the paper, the student effect is anything is underestimated as last autumn close contacts were not told to test. People were simply told to isolate. So the potential for students moving in to towns and cities to really increase cases , with potentially disastrous results should be taken carefully in consideration by policymakers.
#11 Submitted by SeanieFinneran on September 1, 2021 - 11:13pm
You would think that a uni with such a large % of mature students would be more inclined to opt for online rather than on campus.
#12 Submitted by k.j.... on September 3, 2021 - 11:24am
The emergence of a new variant or the increasing rise in cases and deaths will presumably lead to a hasty reconsideration of this plan. There would be very few Universities that would recklessly gamble with students' health. Online teaching can be better than face to face if you have academics with the digital skills to create engaging content and a good VLE to deliver it.You also then reap the benefits of learner analytics which can prompt interventions which could be missed in a face to face environment. It is the future and we should embrace it as part of a blended teaching model.
#13 Submitted by sitarabaloch28 on September 14, 2021 - 12:42am
Great decision by UWL. I am a UWL student and online lectures soiled my one complete year of study. Online lectures are very dull and just provide hardly 30% of learning. Covid is going to be with us and institutions are to adjust their system with it but at the cost of students learning and their career. Online classes are a curse

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