Dr Paul Davis

We do know it works.

We do know it is actually very critical in terms of supporting students.

A lot of the third level for institutions are using online models in terms of online material to support students anyway.

So moving a lecture online from a classroom base is not a significant change.

At second level, it's about planning delivery, but we are already seeing students who do grinds through online systems.

So we know the online is part of the mix that we have.

We just need to start thinking about whether we want to formally adopt it and then think about the implications.

This is an opportunity for us to review it.

It is, yeah.

And a lot of the universities are trying to adapt to that.

But again, you look at it and say, it's 12 hours spent over five days.

You can condense that into two days, but you could condense it into whereby the student is one day on site for six hours of lectures and the other six hours are delivered online.

So you can adapt the hybrid model.

That gives that student a huge amount of flexibility in terms of the commute, the stay.

And that's what we have to try to do.

We have to take into account the new reality of our students.

It's not a reality where they can come up and just gain accommodation.

They can't.

They're struggling.

And in that struggle, we've got to start adopting our education systems.