Not allowed to go home at the weekend, not allowed to mix with students outside your bubble, not allowed to have parties, maybe not allowed for Xmas?

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I really feel sorry for students at Uni in Scotland.

Those students who are feeling isolated. Those who just want some fun and to experience student life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-54285720

And break these rules and you could lose your university place

They're missing out on Freshers' Week - the chance to get pissed and sleep around

Er...and settle in and make friends???

Jesus Christ

@Heyahun

A Christmas at uni with friends one time sounds way more fun Tbh! I don’t think it sounds bad at all!

It might be fun if you get on well with your housemates, it's a very different prospect if you end up living with people you don't get on with or worse.

to be fair unis didnt now actively encourage students to come in - plenty of unis are allowing students to learn remotely.

its also not unis fault that the government has turned them into businesses - their aim is to make money by getting as many customers through their doors just like Pret. What happens to those customers thereafter is not really their business

I feel sorry for them, as I remember the first year of uni being the time of my life once I got used to it. It must be very disappointing for them not to be able to go to the pub or restaurant. So yes, I empathise with them.

It doesn’t mean that the measures aren’t justified, though, with infection rates increasing as they are among students.

Private accommodation companies needed the student ££;
Universities needed the student ££;
The loan companies needed the student ££;
University lecturers need jobs;
University staff ie finance officers, etc etc need jobs;
Covid;
Students didn’t defer as there are no jobs and they can’t freely travel the world.

These are the issues. Let’s stop blaming the students. If we had sent 1,000 over 50s (I’m in that group before I get accused of ageism) up to Scotland Covid would have spread. It’s the number of people together.

@HesterShaw1

They're missing out on Freshers' Week - the chance to get pissed and sleep around

Er...and settle in and make friends???

Jesus Christ

They can still settle in to their flats and make friend with their flatmates. None is locking then in their rooms alone. That's who most students spend the first few weeks with anyway. You might meet up with some guys off your course but we had plenty of nights in as a flat sharing a meal and having a drink

Quite right @Coffeeandbeans and actually I'm fine with that if we talk about it in those terms and stop pretending that this is all the fault of shag-mad Freshers.

"None is locking then in their rooms alone."

Actually, they are. Students in halls and flats who are self-isolating are restricted to single bedrooms, have to visit the kitchens and bathrooms alone in PPE and have to clean down everything they've touched afterwards before returning to their rooms - and these are 16/17/18 year olds away from home for the first time.

@jasjas1973 you keep ignoring the point that a load of people living together will lead to the virus spreading among them.

Watching and reading new reports some have no symptoms but others are very ill.

Also who is blaming them? I'm not are you?

I think the press really want to blame a particular group in society and students are an easy target. My dd went back to uni a few weeks ago, a photo of her was printed in The Daily Mail and The Sun of ' group of freshers ignoring social distancing filling the bars ... the reality - her and her housemates are 2nd years who had all had covid and were heading to the park ! She was not happy !

I guess they knew the risks

Some freshers events are still happening, like outdoor sports .

And no students are being left in halls without food, that’s just scare mongering.

Yes it’s crap. But it’s also crap for a lot of people , like NHS staff. And people dying in hospital with no visitors.

I feel really sorry for students at the moment. It's ridiculous the way they are blaming them and making such a big deal about cases in halls of residence when schools are open and pupils (unlike students in halls) will be going home every day. They don't need to party for it to spread. It will happen anyway and at least they are a low risk group. It would make more sense for them to be realistic about it spreading among students and concentrate on making sure it doesn't spill out into the wider community .It's all just another distraction for the government to blame other people for their own incompetence.

Calm down, the pub ban is only this weekend and the separate household guidance applies down south too.

It is truly awful for students and they are paying a fortune for it which attracts high interest rates.

I wonder what those on furlough would have thought if the money they received from the government was not a gift but a loan, attracting high interest rates?

Yes, it's crap for a lot of people.

That's no reason not to feel sympathy for these kids though. They've been through the exam shambles, the current mismanagement of higher education and when they leave fuck knows what the state of the job market is going to be like.

@Tomatoesneedtoripen

I guess they knew the risks

including the students who had started courses and committed large sums of money?

Don't be ridiculous

As if that went through their heads when they were filling in the UCAS form.

Of course they didn't know the bloody risks, because according to this shitshow of a government and the mad woman over the border, they change every day. Getting them back to their courses then telling them they can't see anyone except their housemates? I don't remember that being common knowledge in the summer.

It's a bloody scandal.

@pumpkinpie01

I think the press really want to blame a particular group in society and students are an easy target. My dd went back to uni a few weeks ago, a photo of her was printed in The Daily Mail and The Sun of ' group of freshers ignoring social distancing filling the bars ... the reality - her and her housemates are 2nd years who had all had covid and were heading to the park ! She was not happy !

I don't blame her. My DD lives in the house with a lot of other students and therefore there is no requirement for them to social distance from each other but they still feel paranoid when going out, thanks to the media.

It’s this weekend they’ve been asked to stay in, Glasgow Uni has 124 confirmed cases yesterday mainly due to parties and lack of SD, so yes they can survive staying in.
My DD has her classes online and fortunately has her own flat so can safely SD.

@Belladonna12 crap isn't it been made to feel like that . when her and her housemates all got it they all followed the rules and didn't leave the house for 10 days. First time she goes out has her picture unknowingly taken and sold to the papers.

@contrmary

They get free tuition though still don't they?

Everyone is suffering at the moment. Students have to face tough restrictions because out of all groups of people in society theirs is probably the most socially active, therefore the biggest potential spreader.

Hahahahha free tuition? Absofuckinglutely not.

As if that went through their heads when they were filling in the UCAS form.

With a deadline mid January 2020 when Covid was still a problem only in China?

of course they knew, plenty of students deferred, they didnt defer for the hell of it,
they knew it would be online learning for at least a term.
no one surely had their head in the sand that much to not be aware of the risks.

Ah ok you're only applying your meanness, lack of empathy and judgement to freshers.

Fair enough...

I assume you had a crystal ball?