{"id":107209,"date":"2020-05-17T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/universities-last-in-line-as-europe-eases-coronavirus-lockdown"},"modified":"2020-05-17T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T19:42:17","slug":"universities-last-in-line-as-europe-eases-coronavirus-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/universities-last-in-line-as-europe-eases-coronavirus-lockdown","title":{"rendered":"Universities last in line as Europe eases coronavirus lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universities-last-in-line-as-europe-eases-coronavirus-lockdown.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one sense, universities have become victims of their own success at teaching online, but some academics are concerned that continued closures could hurt poorer students without access to computers or study space, while others mourn the loss of face-to-face connection while teaching.\u201d Universities have become bloated cliques. Has Covid shown we don\u2019t need mini-towns and fat fees? Poorer students might welcome online courses at 10% of the cost surely and shorter completion time, surely?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Governments are prioritising reopening schools and businesses over campuses. But some academics fear the impact on disadvantaged students \u2013 and on their teaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn one sense, universities have become victims of their own success at teaching online, but some academics are concerned that continued closures could hurt poorer students without access to computers or study space, while others mourn the loss of face-to-face connection while teaching.\u201d Universities have become bloated cliques. Has Covid shown we don\u2019t need mini-towns [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}