Read our response to SAGE's principles principles for managing #COVID19 at #Universities
We agree the "It is highly likely that there will be significant outbreaks associated with HE" and agree on strategies to mitigate risk.
However, our recommendation about the purpose, extent and duration of our online teaching and learning strategy will maximise the effectiveness of other strategies such as residential segments and testing/tracing.
In sum: maximising remote learning at the start of term will enable subsequent pivots to in-person depending on infection rates, rather than away from it if there are cases.
It may also mitigate against SAGE's prediction that 'large outbreaks are possible, peaking during November."
Read the report in full here: independentsage.org/independent-sa…
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