Dr Paul Davis

I've said very clearly there are certain groups of students, certain cohorts that you can look at.

Business studies where we have large classes of 450, we have low attendance rates.

And this is common across all universities.

So where we have that, we look at the way that we can bring them in at certain times for certain types of work, such as workshops, seminars, and maybe applied problem solving.

But they don't need to be there all of the time.

I had one person remark to me that their son was doing, I think, finance.

in one college and they're scheduled for 12 hours lectures over the course of the week, but they're scheduled for 12 hours over four days.

Now, the reality is that you don't need to schedule 12 hours.

You can schedule that into one day and then actually have another six hours delivered online.

What you're doing is thinking about and putting that planning in place now.

Online learning is not as bad as people make it out to be if planned and put in place with the targeted in-person engagement along with it.

There are cohorts that we can do this with.

We will end up maybe facing this issue when we get to September, October, if the crisis continues.

But why wait until then to start thinking about it when we can start having an active conversation with people who are looking at workload, with people who are looking at the commutes of students, with people who are looking at planning for accommodation for students, even coming up to August.

And being told that maybe we can reduce down the amount of accommodation required, the amount of commute required.

I think it's a logical conversation to have.

But I do know that I'm sitting probably on the wrong side of many people out there who are looking at this and thinking, my God, the impact.

But we have to be practical about it.

Good morning, Clare.

I think we should be thinking about it and we should be planning.