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  Covid-19 has exposed the fatal flaws in Britain’s university system

  Posted by Sarah on 13 December 2020 at 10:12 pm

  Covid-19 has exposed the fatal flaws in Britain’s university system and hastened its inevitable decline.The pandemic has left university students depressed, staff burnt out and highlighted a host of problems with the higher education model.
  

  Now we are at the end of term and reflecting on students’ mental health, with a new survey revealing many have suffered depression.

  We all remember the headlines about students being locked into halls of residences at the University of Manchester. In Nottingham, thousands of pounds of fines have been doled out. Students up and down the country have talked about being imprisoned as universities invited police onto campuses, effectively criminalising them for being there.

  It is hardly surprising that many students, either isolated in halls and away from their families or stuck at home trying to cope with online learning without the necessary resources, are struggling with anxiety. All over the country students have been trying to learn on mobile phones because they don’t have laptops or full access to resources on campus. Student support centres have not been given the adequate resources to cope with the new problems the lockdown and Covid have brought.

  If you look through any of the academic support social media sites, it is clear that the faculties are also struggling. We have been overwhelmed by the unprecedented levels of academic and emotional support required by our students. I’m not exaggerating when I say that everyone is truly burnt out. What we need, along with 60 million vaccines, is 60 million threads of mental health support.

  All of these problems were in the post. It’s been building for many years – universities think of themselves as businesses selling a product. They spend millions on marketing and competing with each other globally for ‘business’ (sorry, I mean students).

  The cities they sit in have also come to rely far too much on the student pound. Landlords and, more recently, international property developers have done very well out of the global student population.

  Now these cities seek to imprison those same students, threatening them with denial of travel to their homes and family, increasing the mental stress and all sponsored by a government that is hell bent on forcing us into their vision of hell, a new world order where ordinary people are compliant or punished.

  How much more mental torture will we allow our children, students and ourselves to endure before we snap and take down this dystopian society Johnson is creating along with the billionaire globalist and the UN, it’s time for us to take control our our country.

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