3rd wave incoming...

[Professor]

At our University we are sticking to 2m distancing which is essentially halving our capacity in lecture rooms. I believe some courses in Swansea Uni are pretty much fully online for semester 1 at least, except for the odd seminar. What are you doing up with you, Prof?

Varies on different degrees. Medics and vets are face-to-face but reduced capacity so are online as well (everything has been for five years anyway). Modular programmes like biology have one face-to-face for every module per week-practicals or tutorials in the main. My daughter is off to Keele and is all online until November. I expect most will be face-to-face semester 2.
Offices open on 13th and labs back to almost full capacity

 

[monmouth]

At our University we are sticking to 2m distancing which is essentially halving our capacity in lecture rooms. I believe some courses in Swansea Uni are pretty much fully online for semester 1 at least, except for the odd seminar. What are you doing up with you, Prof?

I'm not lecturing this year. Refused. Recordings and online only. Because of the stupidity of the assessments have 400 super spreaders, sorry students on my course. Small groups are meant to go ahead in person, but I struggle with that. 20 in rooms designed for 15. Sounds like a legal minefield to me if anyone gets seriously ill.

 

[monmouth]

Czechia approved Ivermectin for coof treatment in March.

Wonder how they're doing there?

and other such meaningless shite...etc etc

You dull c**t.

Just had to give a shout out for this.

 

[MrSwerve]

At our University we are sticking to 2m distancing which is essentially halving our capacity in lecture rooms. I believe some courses in Swansea Uni are pretty much fully online for semester 1 at least, except for the odd seminar. What are you doing up with you, Prof?

I'm not lecturing this year. Refused. Recordings and online only. Because of the stupidity of the assessments have 400 super spreaders, sorry students on my course. Small groups are meant to go ahead in person, but I struggle with that. 20 in rooms designed for 15. Sounds like a legal minefield to me if anyone gets seriously ill.

Fair play to you. There is massive pressure on us to be F2F. I think if I went down the online only route there would be a couple of ‘chats’ with my higher-ups...

 

[Cooperman]

Czechia approved Ivermectin for coof treatment in March.

Wonder how they're doing there?


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No wonder there's such a pushback against it by Big Pharma and their paid lackies in Politics, the MSM and the scientific community. Can't have a safe, cheap drug being prescribed. Best give em those expensive "vaccines".

Slovakia approved it in Jan. Currently 7 day deaths average of ZERO.

"The Health Ministry has approved the use of the drug Ivermectin in the fight against the novel coronavirus, ministry spokesperson Zuzana Eliasova told TASR on Wednesday. It will be possible to use Ivermectin in Slovakia for treatment for the next six months. In addition to hospitals, it will be available in pharmacies on prescription, Eliasova added."

You dull c**t.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00449.asp

You CAN call DGT that.

 

[monmouth]

I'm not lecturing this year. Refused. Recordings and online only. Because of the stupidity of the assessments have 400 super spreaders, sorry students on my course. Small groups are meant to go ahead in person, but I struggle with that. 20 in rooms designed for 15. Sounds like a legal minefield to me if anyone gets seriously ill.

Fair play to you. There is massive pressure on us to be F2F. I think if I went down the online only route there would be a couple of ‘chats’ with my higher-ups...

I consider myself self employed, even though I’m not. If they want me to grace their premises, it’s on my terms. Old age and financial security gives a lot of power, also helps for some reason that escapes me, being popular with the lab rats…oops, not again..students

I feel sorry for the younger folk with a long career left in the clusterfuck that is HE now, driven by fat cats, league tables and incompetent government beyond belief.

 

[Eddy the Beagle]

Aug 2020 around 300 UK Covid deaths with zero people vaccinated.

Aug 2021 over 2800 deaths with 44m+ vaccinated.

Sept 2nd 2020 7 day moving average - 7

Sept 2nd 2021 7 day moving average - 111

Those vaccines are great, aren't they? Shows they're working, or something.

The vaccination programme has clearly been a complete shit show.

 

[DJack]

Aug 2020 around 300 UK Covid deaths with zero people vaccinated.

Aug 2021 over 2800 deaths with 44m+ vaccinated.

Sept 2nd 2020 7 day moving average - 7

Sept 2nd 2021 7 day moving average - 111

Those vaccines are great, aren't they? Shows they're working, or something.

The vaccination programme has clearly been a complete s**t show.

If you could call an adult for us please.

We need to alert them to the fact that you've shit yourself on the internet.

Ta.

 

[Professor]

Fair play to you. There is massive pressure on us to be F2F. I think if I went down the online only route there would be a couple of ‘chats’ with my higher-ups...

I consider myself self employed, even though I’m not. If they want me to grace their premises, it’s on my terms. Old age and financial security gives a lot of power, also helps for some reason that escapes me, being popular with the lab rats…oops, not again..students

I feel sorry for the younger folk with a long career left in the clusterfuck that is HE now, driven by fat cats, league tables and incompetent government beyond belief.

Shocking. The USS scheme makes a post 2016 pension near worthless. I could pay an extra 80 grand pension until 67 to get 3grand a year more. I’m 55 in 18 months . Seriously thinking of flexi retirement and re-investing.
HE is a mess. Lost sight of its purpose in education,
Research and as a civic centre.
The Mafia have better morals than HE senior managers

 

[Professor]

I consider myself self employed, even though I’m not. If they want me to grace their premises, it’s on my terms. Old age and financial security gives a lot of power, also helps for some reason that escapes me, being popular with the lab rats…oops, not again..students

I feel sorry for the younger folk with a long career left in the clusterfuck that is HE now, driven by fat cats, league tables and incompetent government beyond belief.

Shocking. The USS scheme makes a post 2016 pension near worthless. I could pay an extra 80 grand pension until 67 to get 3grand a year more. I’m 55 in 18 months . Seriously thinking of flexi retirement and re-investing.
HE is a mess. Lost sight of its purpose in education,
Research and as a civic centre.
The Mafia have better morals than HE senior managers

Plus the employers contribution of course

 

[MrSwerve]

We’re risking going OT but I agree entirely with the both of you. I’m in my mid thirties and have been lucky enough to teach in HE since my very early twenties, I’ve loved it for the most part but the last 3 or 4 years have taken its toll in terms of admin, politics, league tables, etc. I’ve honestly been questioning a career change the last couple of years, which I never thought I’d do. I suppose I feel lucky to have a job in the current climate, and a fairly well paid one at that.

There are a lot of people at breaking point at the moment.

 

[monmouth]

Another posting cock up. Fetch me my pills nurse.

 

[MajorR]

I consider myself self employed, even though I’m not. If they want me to grace their premises, it’s on my terms. Old age and financial security gives a lot of power, also helps for some reason that escapes me, being popular with the lab rats…oops, not again..students

I feel sorry for the younger folk with a long career left in the clusterfuck that is HE now, driven by fat cats, league tables and incompetent government beyond belief.

Shocking. The USS scheme makes a post 2016 pension near worthless. I could pay an extra 80 grand pension until 67 to get 3grand a year more. I’m 55 in 18 months . Seriously thinking of flexi retirement and re-investing.
HE is a mess. Lost sight of its purpose in education,
Research and as a civic centre.
The Mafia have better morals than HE senior managers

I’ve a few mates in the police who’ve been talking about the changes made to their pension scheme and it’s very similar story to what’s happened to you guys. As of next March, those who haven’t already been transferred over to the new scheme (mainly older more experienced officers closer to retirement) are being moved on to the new scheme which they tell me is so bad they are looking at leaving come March.
One of their colleagues (around 55 years of age) had taken a promotion, had almost completed his probationary period when it became apparent that under the new pension regs once the substantive promotion was confirmed the individual would have to work until they were 60, pay more in and get a lot less out. The colleague decided not to complete the probationary period and finished.
According to my mates there will be a lot of cops leaving next year and their skills will take some replacing.

 

[monmouth]

We’re risking going OT but I agree entirely with the both of you. I’m in my mid thirties and have been lucky enough to teach in HE since my very early twenties, I’ve loved it for the most part but the last 3 or 4 years have taken its toll in terms of admin, politics, league tables, etc. I’ve honestly been questioning a career change the last couple of years, which I never thought I’d do. I suppose I feel lucky to have a job in the current climate, and a fairly well paid one at that.

There are a lot of people at breaking point at the moment.

I still enjoy it, but probably because I don’t get involved with much bullshit.

I admire the prof massively for doing research. I gave up when my first and only prospective publication was peer reviewed by someone and I wanted to go around their house and have a serious talk. Well it’s Penlan innit. Old habits die hard. .

Sadly, as prof says, I’ve seen even over my relatively short excursion into HE, that it is no longer about education at all, but business. The lifting of the cap and marketisation killed any education ideals stone dead. And the level of fees, cynical exploitation of overseas applicants, and securitisation to sell off the debt and make the city buddies rich (the whole point really, I reckon), destroyed any moral foundation. As I said, a total clusterfuck. Like the NHS, a fantastic British success story destroyed by greed and incompetence.

The prosecution rests

As to the USS…another mismanaged mess. Just a personal view based on nothing much other than reading the runes, but it will do well to survive and fund future promises in full.

So, joy and laughter all round.