A petition has been launched by Warwick’s liberation societies, calling for the reintroduction of the Safety Net policy after it was announced one would not be included in the University’s ‘Mitigation Package of Education Measures’.
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The University of Warwick has faced further criticism of failing to deal with sexual misconduct after a student who groped another student on campus was allowed back to the university.
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Self-isolating students at the University of Bristol were forced to wait for over a week in dark bedrooms until their self-isolation periods were over before their lights were fixed.
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Concerns have been raised by staff and students over the reliability of rapid tests offered to UK universities before the Christmas holidays
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Warwickshire and Coventry will remain under the highest Covid-19 restrictions following the results of the government tier review announced on 17 December.
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Students at the University of Warwick have started an online petition calling on the University to “take action against sexual assault cases”.
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The University of Warwick has shown interest in the government’s student mass-testing scheme, to enable students to return home for Christmas.
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Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) has faced backlash over the return of face-to-face teaching, despite Greater Manchester’s move into Tier 3.
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Ministers are holding talks over having a two-week lockdown in December which would involve students remaining on campus and having all teaching delivered online.
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Unions at the universities of Birmingham, Leeds and Warwick have threatened to ballot for industrial action over the continuation of face-to-face teaching on university campuses.
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The A-Level results fiasco demonstrates that there is no clear alternative to exam-based assessment for school pupils. Hundreds of thousands of students saw their calculated grades drop from predictions with many schools in disadvantaged areas being disproportionately penalised by Ofqual’s algorithm. Even the U-turn, which changed results to centre assessed...
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More than 1,800 students in the North East tested positive for Covid-19 in the week from 1-7 October.
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