A Second Lockdown?

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  1. Mat

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    I'm quite amazed by this if true. I teach at Sheffield and for the courses I teach on we are currently planning to do everything online. That's both post-grads and undergrads. I believe we are running small group teaching across the uni but during these classes, everyone will have to wear face coverings. All larger lectures are online for the Autumn semester at least. They have also scheduled all teaching to minimise the number of students on campus at one time.
     
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    Greenwich University (or one of the Universities there). Can only repeat what she said. They might be limiting how often they have to go, but nothing on campus in classes from her account.
     
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    you voted for the f*****g clown!!
     
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    New College Pontefract have special buses from surrounding towns and villages yet the A -Level students still choose to clog public transport up because it isn't hip to use the college bus. New College do absolutely nothing about this.

    It's a dangerous mix of demographics because the young are asymptomatic carriers. These same students go out around the town centre on a Tuesday night for student night. I'm surprised that the local pubs don't get fined or shut down baring in mind A-Level students are predominantly 16-18 years old. People turn a blind eye.
     
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    I was grateful for that New College blind eye in the town centre from 1998-2000 :D
     
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  6. Mat

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    Cheers. Just had a quick look on their website and they seem to suggest they are putting similar measures in place. E.g. face coverings indoors, teachers wearing visors, 2m apart in classrooms. However, from your mate's account it seems that perhaps they are not actually carrying this out. Be interesting to see how we get on and whether guidelines are actually being followed.
     
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    Me too from 2001-2003 but I'm a grumpy old get now :D
     
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    I find it slightly hard to believe given that all the uni students I know of are having mainly online lectures, reduced capacity face to face teaching even in things like dentistry. Certainly no packed lecture theatres and definitely all promoting mask wearing.
     
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    Yes I means who on here went into pubs whilst still at school at say 16 or 17 years old
     
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    I'll give her a call and let her know you're struggling to believe her. I'll then start to question others' poor experiences of pubs/restaurants when mine have been impeccable.

    I'm being deliberately sarcastic/pedantic there, apologies, but I'm hardly going to lie am I? And I don't see how my friend benefits from making up a story on the phone to me.
     
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    I know what you're saying and it does sound hypocritical when I did it myself.
     
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    Daughter started back yesterday, 7 hours of socially distanced lectures a week the rest online. One of the lads in her flat its all online, I feel sorry that she’s not getting the experience of going to uni her predecessors have had. And a bit miffed that the fees are still the same !!
     
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    I just want to refer everyone to my previous reply to db3k and add the quoted post above to the evidence list.
     
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    First underage drink was in Penny Farthing in town, 16 years old just left school, Baby Jane by Rod Stewart was on the jukebox I had half a lager resplendent in my burgundy and grey ensemble from Connection Clothing Company, funny how I remember stuff like that in detail but can’t remember a conversation from yesterday ! :(
     
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    I’d be amazed if that’s true. I work in the sector and universities have put in an unbelievable amount of work to create secure environments for students.
     
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    I'm sure they have. And it's good to hear three true reflections of the standards being excellent. But nothing is going to land 100% is it? And it only takes on class to have a bad day.

    As I keep saying with pubs/restaurants. There's 100,000+ of them. Experiences will vary.
     
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    Not sure to be honest it was either a pint of Stones in Elephant or Chequerfield pub in Pontefract. Best pint of Fosters I've ever tasted. It must have been around 2000 can remember Sunderland v Man Utd being on in the League Cup.

    It was all around the time I was delivering fliers for Chatanooga's Pizza.
     
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    True and I wasn’t meaning to doubt your source, I am more amazed that some universities aren’t putting the right measures in place. Hopefully that situation get rectified.
     
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    If hypotherically I had gone for an underage drink I would have started in the Catholic club in Wombwell in 1979 - had the advantage that the police at that time used their car park so always warned when they were planning a raid. Not that it would have made any difference to me as I was drinking a coke the times I was there when they raided :)
     
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    I can't remember my first pint in a pub but I can remember my first pint on my own in a pub.

    Tetley's Smooth in the Talbot and Falcon, Wakefield. Been in a couple of times before with a new group of friends from New College (all ex QUEGS), but this was my first time on my own. Took a news paper, took a perch at the end of the bar, landlady acted like she recognised me, had a chat about the 'work week' and sank two pints before anyone else arrived. Just before I turned 17 I think.

    Couldn't drink it these days but going out and having 15 pints of 3.8% smooth bitter were Halcyon days.
     
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