Dr Paul Davis

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Today with David McCullagh · Do we need to embrace more hybrid working and online learning to cope with the energy crisis? · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

When we take third level students, we're finding students that our attendance rates are lower.

We're finding that they have large commutes to attend lectures that could be delivered remotely.

And we're also finding that accommodation is unavailable.

So moving to a hybrid learning model, an online learning model with cohorts of students is actually a practical step.

There is a financial implication for universities as well and we need to understand that.

The cost of energy and heating buildings is enormous and that cost of energy is not decreasing, it's increasing.

And many of the universities are facing financial crisis.

We've seen it in the UK and we've seen it even in the north of Ireland where I think only last week University of Ulster announced 450 redundancies.

We've got to find a balance to get this right.

I'm not arguing that education needs to move fully online, but I am arguing that this is the moment that we can plan for it.

So at least people are given advance notice as to what we're thinking of doing rather than waiting until we get to October, November and suddenly finding we are facing a crisis and then impacting students and parents with short term solutions to something that can be planned for now.

Absolutely.

You've got to look at it.

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.

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