More than 200 freshers at Cambridge University halls of residence are told to self isolate after 18 students tested positive for coronavirus 233 students living at the West House have been told they must self-isolate Homerton College said students must isolate following 18 positive cases The College said the decision was based based on advice … Read more
‘It’s like an exam hall!’ Edinburgh University freshers eat their meals on individual wooden desks all facing the front to enforce social distancing A first-year student told MailOnline it was like eating ‘under exam conditions A rigid floor plan in the Pollock Halls dining room appears to stifle conversation Edinburgh University has 154 coronavirus cases among students … Read more
Students in coronavirus lockdown at their halls of residence have been partying until the early hours after the university allowed larger ‘bubbles’, neighbours claim. Some 1,500 students at Manchester Metropolitan University have been told to self-isolate at the Birley and Cambridge halls for a fortnight after a Covid-19 outbreak. But local residents claim the young … Read more
Lawyers have encouraged students in isolation at university to seek their help pro-bono amid a growing row over coronavirus lockdowns on campuses. Up to 4,000 students across Britain are now self-isolating for a fortnight after more than 500 cases of Covid-19 were confirmed across at least 32 universities. Among them are 1,700 students under lockdown … Read more
A university is facing backlash after asking students who have been locked down in halls of residence to remove comical signs and messages displayed in their windows. Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is one of at least 32 universities in the UK to have confirmed cases of coronavirus. Thousands of students are on lockdown, some enforced … Read more
A Oxford professor has urged universities in the UK to follow Sweden and pay infected freshers to trace their contacts as at least 32 report Covid cases. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University told the Times newspaper the Government had helped every sector but had ‘clamped down’ on students. The professor said … Read more
Students at the University of Manchester have been filmed throwing an illegal party outside their student halls. Footage recorded at 1am this morning shows a large gathering outside of Owens Park halls in Fallowfield, south Manchester, with one clip captioned: ‘Covid wah?’. Another clip shows a sea of people dancing to music which appears to … Read more
Freshers’ week should be moved online to prevent Covid-19 outbreaks when university students go back next month, an independent group of scientists say. The experts have earmarked campuses as potential super-spreading zones, because young people are more likely to carry the virus without knowing and mingle with strangers. They say freshers’ week – normally held … Read more
Universities are considering making students live in ‘bubbles’ with people on their courses as part of a series of measures to reopen campuses in September, as the sector faces its greatest challenge yet. Students arriving at university for the first time could be faced with virtual freshers’ week events, fewer large-scale lectures and one-way systems … Read more