I wonder if they think education is fine online so they don't need to change anything…or they don't care/forgot.

@wearsmanyhats I think your right. They are basically shifting the hey “you deal with it” onto educators. And also probably saying well “you did alright so far” but not counting the staff and students anxiety / long term impacts etc of shifting an entire year to distance online with next to zero tangible support for Universities. Being well groomed and tatood is more important than educating a large chunk of future society in the best ways possible in current circumstances which would be to open up our campus’s for as much as is safe in person teaching and blended. Done so much this year to make things work and the non announcement is frankly insulting.

@ChrisJWilson if they cared they would have used the magic money tree to give all HE students an reduced fee year. Teaching would still have been excellent and we would have still done our best but students would have felt supported and more with that simple act of support for education. But economy more important than education. Sure that’s a rather simplistic answer to a complicated issue I and many others have been battling through. But I’m pretty confident the front bench have no idea why the creative industries are so important to the economy.

The retraining campaign they launched supports your claim.