@ucu
I get there are many legitimate concerns re: campuses not re-opening but I am SO SO SO tired of this ridiculous BS assumption I keep seeing in comments that if teaching staff aren’t physically on campus they aren’t working. It’s ignorant and offensive and it needs to stop.
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Plans to reopen universities have been thrown into serious doubt as UCU warns today that it is “too dangerous” for face-to-face teaching to resume, and calls on the government and vice-chancellors to prevent students returning to campuses this autumn.
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@blue_stocking
@ucu
The point is. Universities have reassured pupils they WILL be getting a mixture of online lectures and in person teaching and this is what they have signed up for. If they wanted to do a much cheaper online course and pay their fees to the hardworking OU lecturers they would
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@lizzieenfield
@ucu
Whether or not f2f teaching should resume, whether students should get fee rebates, and whether OU courses are superior to online learning elsewhere (my opinion: of course they are) are still all completely separate points to whether or not faculty WFH are “lazy” or “slackers”
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@GordonBennet14
@ucu
With LOTS of caveats, on balance, no. But my issue isn’t with people having a sensible costs/benefits analysis discussion (or even people thinking campuses should completely reopen), but with those who claim that when teaching faculty are WFH we’re being lazy/slacking/not working
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