The latest on Covid-19, a review of the NSS, Ucas data and student voting intentions
On 9 September, Anton Muscatelli, vice-chancellor of the University of Glasgow, Zoomed into a Commons science and technology committee hearing to reassure MPs that it was “highly unlikely” that his campus would become a vector for the transmission of coronavirus. As night follows day, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday confirmed a “significant outbreak” at the University of Glasgow.
Muscatelli appeared in front of the select committee along with Universities UK president Julia Buckingham and University of Manchester vice-chancellor Nancy Rothwell. The trio of vice-chancellors were adamant that everything had been done to make classrooms “Covid secure”, but they admitted to being concerned about off-campus activity.