The trouble with universities is they are both places of teaching, learning and research – and enormous hotels. In the middle of the Covid-19 crisis, they are like stationary cruise ships embedded in nearly all our major cities with tens of thousands of socially active students on board.
Hi everyone. The article has been amended and the correction detailed. Good work to those who insisted !
Online education may be more developed at lower status HE. disruption starts at edges. Russell Group have funds for seminars, tutorials but what happens online? Social learning as described by FutureLearn is relevant. More details please. williamnhutton
And now Will Hutton has corrected his appallingly inaccurate statement about non-RG unis, when will you be correcting this article?
Yet more evidence of the elitism of UniofOxford academics and that you don’t need to be particularly bright to work there, just well-connected and lucky. But I imagine many of williamnhutton a colleagues feel quite embarrassed.
This article is full of untruths and inaccurate generalisations. You have offended many university teachers who are working their guts out just now. Please publish a full retraction and apology. Life is quite shit for us too just now you know?
Utterly uninformed. I’m doing post grad research at Wolverhampton Uni and it’s all online and done perfectly well. In fact I probably have more contact this academic year with my advisors. We fine here! Thanks WLV_DoctoralCol wlv_uni
He’s just exposed how ill informed he is about anything that happens outside of his Russell group snobbery
this is highly ill informed and offensive. Reality? We worked night and day mobilising courses online, we supported the front line, as did our student nurses, we engaged our students continually. Your insight is absent and deluded and an insult.
As all have said here this is completely wrong and I’ll-informed about non-RG teaching.
Hours on from it being pointed out that Hutton inserted an insulting lie in this article, and you *still* haven't corrected it, . At which point will you remember CP Scott's wise words, and either retract the whole article, or issue a correction?
Utter rubbish about non RG Unis. I work at a non RG uni. This week I have 3 group online tutorials, a field trip, 2 online lectures, 2 evening online talks/seminars and umpteen online student meetings (I only work 4 days a week) How much harder am I supposed to work
What an ill-informed article. It's complete nonsense. This is nothing but a hit piece on academics when they are working hard to deliver the best they can, going way beyond their contracts to provide new and novel ways of delivering high quality teaching and learning.
That is not at all what you wrote. What you wrote was either an ill-informed op-ed or a blatant lie. The 87% of students outside the Russell Group are all receiving online tutorials, small group sessions, etc, at exactly the same rate, if not more, than their Russell Group peers.
Absolute lies my daughter goes to a non-RG university and all of her learning has been on-line since March. Russell Group is NOT an indicator of educational quality but merely a marketing tool. Check your facts before publishing utter rubbish
I'm at Loughborough uni and I literally have an entire module being done online.
It is the whole financial model of higher education in this country that is at fault. Universities were placed in a position where the choice was between endangering people and financial ruin. Few can blame them for the choice they made - the real blame lies with the government.
williamnhutton What utter bullshit. We're busting our asses with online tutorials and seminars. get your facts straight.
Lol printing misinformation
The claim about non-Russell Group universities not offering online seminars and one to one online contact between students and their lecturers is nonsense. Staff have worked extremely hard over the summer in preparation and continue to do so. Different methods, not less value.
That is a straight lie about non-RG universities, and you should delete it and publish a grovelling retraction. How dare you say that, after all the work that gas been done over the summer at *all* universities to prepare for online tutorials etc. You should be ashamed.
'What is more, few beyond the Russell Group go beyond online lectures to offer online seminars and tutorials, so raising questions about the justification for £9,250 tuition fees.' - this is a lie. Please retract.
The claim about online lectures and seminars is demonstrably false. Please take it down. For your own journalistic integrity if nothing else.
Please retract the comment on universities outside the Russell Group are not doing online tutorials or seminars I can assure you that's exactly what I shall be doing tomorrow in an non-RG uni. Please retract and undertake some solid research before posting false news.
The university is where it is both for learning and living which means that there are many occasions when a great number of people from every corner of the country, and even abroad, stay together. And this creates the possibility for the coronavirus to spread among the students.
My concern williamnhutton is the remorseless infantilisation of students, who are adults responsible for their behaviour. Universities exploit students for their cash, keeping the gravy-train on the tracks. HE is bloated with corporate management & little focus on learning
The social aspects that go along with university life are merely a free bonus to why you are there. You have four years to absorb as much of your subject as possible to fulfill your aspersions in life. Eat, sleep, study repeat. Or go home children.
Absolutely agree but FYI most post-92 and non-Russell Group universities are offering online seminars so I’m not sure where you got the impression this was only happening at Russell groups.
Absolutely! Students should all be detained in their dormatories indefinitely until cases have fallen to acceptable levels. They should not be allowed out at all, Police can deliver essential rations to them.
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Thank God students at Oxford didn't suffer
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