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Sep 2021
10:39pm, 24 Sep 2021
49,809 posts
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LindsD
Makes sense. Whereas in Humanities they are glad to see the back of us. Our enrolments are half what they are usually. They are lower than in Jan when everything was online 
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Sep 2021
10:40pm, 24 Sep 2021
49,810 posts
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LindsD
Postgraduate. Brexit and Covid
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Sep 2021
10:07am, 25 Sep 2021
2,354 posts
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Grast_girl
We haven't got as many students as we'd like in my area, but we're one of the "lucky" universities that benefitted from the higher grades, so we could accept more students overall. It's very patchy though and is obviously dire for the departments/universities that can't over-recruit. I heard at least one university is essentially contracting out their academic staff to other universities because they don't have enough students to teach.
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Sep 2021
11:43am, 25 Sep 2021
1,215 posts
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RunnyBunny
We seem to have gone the other way (Open University) - really good NSS performance, oversubscribed, so there's been a shortage of tutors. It'll be interesting to see if this all drops off again once face-to-face is back on. We obviously benefitted from being set up to deliver distance learning. We've got improved contracts (which has been in the pipeline for years, rather than being a Covid thing) and we do quite regularly get a little bonus here and there. There are a few issues here and there, but I think overall I'm pretty lucky with my deal. The only downside is it can be a bit isolated (lots of online communication, but very little face to face) although that doesn't particularly bother me.
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Sep 2021
10:25pm, 25 Sep 2021
2,355 posts
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Grast_girl
When I applied to work at OU it looked like a really good setup, and I can see the attraction of a uni that is set up for distance learning for staff and students alike.
Once we've paid off the mortgage I might look into it again.
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Sep 2021
11:04pm, 25 Sep 2021
49,835 posts
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LindsD
After last year I cannot bear distance learning. Or any kind of online meetings.
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Sep 2021
11:11am, 26 Sep 2021
2,358 posts
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Grast_girl
It's so interesting how different people have got on with WFH/distance learning. I'm happy as long as it's one or the other, the mixture we did last year, and will be doing this year, I find harder than 100% online or in person.
Although, I'm finding myself getting a bit miffed with people who impose in-person meetings without asking if that works for everyone. There's an accessibility issue for me though, online there's a lot less talking over each other, I can lipread whoever has their camera on, Teams provides autocaptions. I guess it will take a while to work out the happy medium.
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Sep 2021
12:21pm, 26 Sep 2021
49,846 posts
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LindsD
That's a good reminder for me. Thank you.
I will be working most of today, even though the thought makes me cry. I have done no prep for teaching this week and loads of the students have emailed in with timetabling issues.
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Sep 2021
5:32pm, 26 Sep 2021
1,216 posts
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RunnyBunny
Linds I only have around 35 tutorials a year, and a lot of them are (a) duplicates (b) done with another tutor and (c) have lots of material shared from colleagues so the prep is easily manageable. I certainly wouldn't want to do the kind of volumes that traditional universities were doing. I honestly don't know how you managed it.
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Sep 2021
5:33pm, 26 Sep 2021
1,217 posts
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RunnyBunny
A tutorial being an online seminar type thingy, can be anything from 1 to 30 students, but is usually between 5 and 15.
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