While some are aware of risks, they think advantages of face-to-face teaching outweigh them
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The students returning to Bristol University’s rambling city centre campus of Victorian villas, gothic towers and grand gardens this week have mixed feelings about going back to face-to-face teaching next month.
Jessica Choi, a third-year geography student who has been to the university gym, is keen to see her friends but knows that real risks come with in-person teaching and the descent of thousands of students on to the campus. “I’m excited to see everyone but I know it is probably very unsafe because there’ll be so many of us in such a tight space,” she says. “But for the sake of my studies I do need to go. Online teaching is hard to absorb. Everyone’s grades went down at the end of last year.”
