Dr Paul Davis

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The Claire Byrne Show · Could the energy crisis mean a return to remote learning? · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

Now, primary education, I think I said in the article today was, look, it's critical that that remains open.

Any move from physical presence, I think is both educationally and socially regressive.

Secondary education offers opportunities because there are years, maybe second year, whereby we could go online and we stop the ability.

Well, we're not stopped, but we actually look at cohorts going through and think about how to reduce their time in class.

And again, there's an energy cost to this.

There is the transport, there's the commute, but there's also the energy cost of having the classrooms open when maybe we don't need to.

But it's at third level.

Go ahead.

It did and it went into secondary and we're seeing the effects of it now in third level as well but this is where we have to consider cohorts who they are and plan for them rather than suddenly having an ad hoc arrangement hit us in September October

where suddenly we may be facing a crisis, but energy costs may still be increasing.

And again, these are all maybes, but we can plan for that now and then choose how we actually carry out our education system in advance, rather than waiting to react in like we did with COVID.

We've got a lot of lessons that we learned in COVID, and a lot of them were positive in terms of the ability of teachers and lecturers to be able to deliver online.

At very short notice, but who actually thought about what to do.

But we do have to look at the socialisation aspects of it and ensure that the right cohorts are getting socialised rather than then making this large blanket agreement.

Suddenly we can't do this because the energy costs are too high.

And I'd hate to see that happen because that's the wrong approach to this when we can actually plan for it.

Well, what you do is you choose the days that you want people in, you choose the cohorts that you want in, and you make sure that you balance it out.

I said it very clearly that you've got to look at the type of classes that you're actually giving.

So a more considered model, I pointed out, will combine that asynchronous online learning with targeted in-person engagements, such as seminars, workshops.

So you're only bringing them up for one day a week, rather than spreading lectures out over three, four days, whereby they're in class.

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