A leaked email seen by Varsity outlines plans for all lectures in the 2020-21 academic year to be conducted virtually.
Head of Education Services, Alice Benton wrote to Senior Tutors today to inform them that the ‘General Board’s Education Committee’ has ‘agreed that, since it is highly likely that rigid social distancing will be required throughout the next academic year, there will be no face-to-face lectures next year.’
Benton writes that the ‘decision has been taken to provide a degree of certainty to facilitate Faculties and Departments when planning for educational delivery next academic year’ and proposes that the move is ‘in line with thinking across the sector’.