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Today and earlier this week universities have announced total closures, or reductions to timetables in the wake of COVID-19. Some of the institutions have also announced plans to potentially delay summer graduations. Some of these closures are having an immediate effect.
Has your university announced they'll be closed?
Have they explained how you might be affected?
Do you feel that this action is justified, or that your university isn't going far enough?
Post your thoughts below.
Universities stopping face-to-face teaching so far include:
Spoiler
Update as at 20/03/2020 We've now moved on quite considerably since the universities were individually declaring their plans. The vast majority of universities are moving to digital teaching, and some have gone further in closing a lot of their facilities.
Cambridge University Press has made ~700 textbooks available online free of charge until (at present) the end of May. However currently the system is somewhat overloaded and quite slow. This is for students at any school/university (or indeed members of the public), and not just staff and students from the University of Cambridge. Available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/
Adobe has offered free access to its Creative Cloud Applications for students and educational institutions until the end of May as well (thanks to @PQ for the info!)
Today and earlier this week universities have announced total closures, or reductions to timetables in the wake of COVID-19. Some of the institutions have also announced plans to potentially delay summer graduations.
Some of these closures are having an immediate effect.
Obviously this is a stressful time for everyone, especially those whose assessments may be affected.
Has your university announced they'll be closed?
Have they explained how you might be affected?
Do you feel that this action is justified, or that your university isn't going far enough?
Post your thoughts below.
Universities announcing closure so far include: - Durham - MMU - Lancaster - Southampton - Harper Adams (anecdotal)
(Correct as of 13th March)
Will yu be updating the list?
Does closure mean no lectures, does it include the library and SU? Are exams cancelled?
Does closure mean no lectures, does it include the library and SU? Are exams cancelled?
I will aim to yes.
That varies per uni, some unis I've omitted from the list have announced that the university will remain open but they are reducing their teaching and closing some services and cancelling events (Keele have today cancelled their offer holder event due to take place tomorrow). Unis listed have sent emails to students saying "we are going to be closed and there will be no teaching".
Several unis who've announced closure have yet to fully confirm plans for exams, most of which are later in May or June. I suspect they're waiting until the Easter holidays to see how the national picture is developing.
Glasgow have cancelled all on-campus exams and any exams will now be remote. Whether this will be possible for all course types, who knows, so many exams may be axed completely.
Glasgow have cancelled all on-campus exams and any exams will now be remote. Whether this will be possible for all course types, who knows, so many exams may be axed completely.
Just confirming that this is Uni of Glasgow?
Sounds like a pretty broad approach on exams. Could this also include practical exams like music recitals?
Glasgow have cancelled all on-campus exams and any exams will now be remote. Whether this will be possible for all course types, who knows, so many exams may be axed completely.
Wow, I seriously cannot imagine a 3-4th year maths exams online. Would have to be absolutely brutal to counteract the ability of online resources and books.
My university haven't announced closure, I partly hope they don't either.
It's bad enough having an entire month knocked off of teaching because of the strikes, if it's closed for another few weeks then we've barely had any teaching for this semester's modules. Nothing in place to take account of it either.