Dr Paul Davis

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219 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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

It's thinking creatively.

People have considered online to be bad, but asynchronous online content and online learning is not a bad thing.

And it's shown that it can work very effectively with adult learners.

And we are dealing with adult learners at third level.

We're not dealing with children.

We're dealing with adult learners who have a capacity to plan.

I don't think so.

I think what we do is we build the engagement levels in such a way that we actually bring students in at the right time.

I'm not saying that we get rid of first years arriving on campus because first years is where you build your networks and you build the alliances that you need.

Second year offers an opportunity for maybe doing more online delivery because where you've got large classes,

particularly in business faculties, social sciences.

And I know many of my colleagues might disagree with me and I understand that, but I think we need to have a serious conversation about this.

I sit in a business school and I'm looking at

with the impact of the Middle East, perhaps postgraduate numbers declining and therefore a direct impact on turnover that's coming into the college.

And that turnover, given that most colleges are operating on a knife edge, will be removed also because of the increases in energy costs.

We have to start trying to put some practical plans in place to deal with this.

And I'd rather plan for my education rather than arrive at it by default.

We relied, like the UK did, and like a lot of countries, on two cohorts, Chinese and Indian.

And with the Middle East setting, it's actually started to bring down the level of people that want to travel at this stage.

There's a fear of moving away.

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