I think it's cynical.Schools are returning why are universities doing this? One thing for sure you will be expected to take up accommodation as it is an income generator .Perhaps cost cutting as reduced overseas students.
I think it's cynical.Schools are returning why are universities doing this? One thing for sure you will be expected to take up accommodation as it is an income generator .Perhaps cost cutting as reduced overseas students.
I think what Cambridge means that they won't hold lectures where there are like 300 students. They will probably do tutorials and such I think while living on campus.
I think what Cambridge means that they won't hold lectures where there are like 300 students. They will probably do tutorials and such I think while living on campus.
they said workshops and tutorials face to face in small groups
I think it's cynical.Schools are returning why are universities doing this? One thing for sure you will be expected to take up accommodation as it is an income generator .Perhaps cost cutting as reduced overseas students.
How does delivering a lecture online via teams/zoom cut costs compared to delivering it in a lecture theatre?
I think it's cynical.Schools are returning why are universities doing this? One thing for sure you will be expected to take up accommodation as it is an income generator .Perhaps cost cutting as reduced overseas students.
How does delivering a lecture online via teams/zoom cut costs compared to delivering it in a lecture theatre?
This decision seems absurd. What a way to ruin a year of university for people. How do you share in ideas when everything is online? Social life? Cambridge have taken the social essence out of university life and this will be damaging for them
How does delivering a lecture online via teams/zoom cut costs compared to delivering it in a lecture theatre?
Depends on how they do it. Delivering live lectures via teams/zoom is one thing. Recycling previous year's lecture slides and recordings is something else.
This decision seems absurd. What a way to ruin a year of university for people. How do you share in ideas when everything is online? Social life? Cambridge have taken the social essence out of university life and this will be damaging for them
They haven't cancelled tutorials or small group teachings, yet. This means students will still be in Cambridge, they just won't be in the lecture halls, which will probably suit the students who don't go to lectures nicely.
Depends on how they do it. Delivering live lectures via teams/zoom is one thing. Recycling previous year's lecture slides and recordings is something else.
Even recycling slides doesnโt actually cut costs unless you make the staff who produced those slides redundant. Theyโll still need paying!
Lol some of the lecture slides being re-used from my course are from people who are long gone.
Thatโs nothing new though. Even back in the stone ages slides would be recycled each year (gotta save on the acetate!). Resusing slides <> cost savings
They haven't cancelled tutorials or small group teachings, yet. This means students will still be in Cambridge, they just won't be in the lecture halls, which will probably suit the students who don't go to lectures nicely.
Seems like a damp Squibb rather than a waste of a year, then.
Would you be happy spending 2-3 hours or more a week in a cramped lecture hall with 200+ students facing you?
I donโt see protecting their staff from a high risk, low reward teaching method as messing up
Cambridge recently modelled that over 6. 5 million people in the UK have had the virus. If true, and seems like solid data, CFR is much lower than first thought , around 0.5 %. by September, with use of masks and sensible conduct, the risk to a teacher is going to be small. I think the uni are more concerned about students spreading in the theatres, than staff, but hey ho.