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

And that's a big impact on us at this point.

It's significant, yeah.

And you're also not just saving on that.

You're giving some foresight to the students who would be coming on campus, maybe arriving up.

And we've heard this over the last few weeks of students talking about how they can't get accommodation, some of them sleeping in cars, some of them not turning up to lectures because they can't actually get here.

So what you're doing is you're actually giving some stability for students to be able to plan how they're going to do it so they can stay at home, they can do their lectures, they can attend lectures.

But we're not involved in this

rush to get accommodation that the students are giving out about.

It's trying to find a balance in there for everybody, but we need to plan it.

The difference is that a single large building is very much underutilised.

A single home, look, and I have to be very careful of being facetious, but having grown up in the 70s, an extra jumper always seemed to work for me as a student.

Now that seems very facetious, but I don't want to be.

The problem with it is it's not one lecture hall, it's a whole building or whole sets of buildings.

And we've got to start prioritising it.

When you look at the cost of energy and you look at the rising costs that are impacting, but also the decrease in income coming into universities, some decisions will be made.

The question is, will we wait until we have to make these decisions in September, October to the detriment of the learning?

or will we start planning for that learning now?

And that's the real point of the debate here, is at least let's have a debate on it.

Let's raise it.

Because at this point in every academic's career, as we look at where we are in the cycle, we're starting to finish up this year, but starting to plan for next year.

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