DD is due to start Uni in September, grades permitting. But so many festivals and events for planned for much later in the year are now being cancelled (eg London Fashion Week and Octoberfest both announced in the last couple of days) and while September has felt a long way off, it has suddenly made me realise that it's not guaranteed that University courses will be able to start as planned.
Where does this leave our kids?
Do you think they'll be able to start Uni in the autumn?
How will shared accommodation work if social distancing measures are still in place?
What will happen with freshers week and lectures / classes?
Would it be better for them to try and defer til 2021 (or reapply for 2021 in the autumn)?
What if courses can't run due to low numbers?
If you work in a university, are you planning for this? What's the inside info?
DD (and a good proportion of all the 18 year old's in the land) have looked forward to this for so long and while it's no ones fault, it feels so unfair when they've already missed out on everything they had planned for this summer (in DD's case her first independent foreign holiday and three weeks of really great work experience in late June which now look very unlikely to go ahead).
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PancakePattie · 21/04/2020 15:28
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