@Abraxan
Well, the news is out.
No full return until May 17.
Same week DD's academic year finishes.
Her friends all appear to finish in May too, across a range of different universities and courses.
Great timing 
Yes I noticed this. They're allowed back once it's all bloody over! Ds2 went back this week and called to say teaching has finished. It's just revision now until exams in mid-may. But the library is closed. There are no F2F study groups. So it's back to sitting alone in his room again, day in day out. No socialising allowed. No people from other accommodation blocks allowed into their building. No clubs open. College bar not open. Then he comes home for exams.
So, basically, in the whole of his first year, he had about four weeks in which to meet people, during which time he was alone in a flat because no one else turned u[, had no F2F lessons, met no tutors, had no freshers' fair, no societies - most of them had died out because last year, the second years who would have kept them going came home during lockdown and stayed home, so all the societies that had been going for decades just petered out.
I'm so angry on his behalf - not at anyone - just at the situation that has left this generation so bereft of those rites of passage from schooldays into adulthood. There was no school send off - no leavers' ball, no results' day meet up in school, no final day - nothing. A nothing last year at school. A nothing first year at uni. I wish I'd been able to persuade him to take a year out but he felt it would be a waste of time. A couple of his friends took years out. They both found jobs. They've been a bit bored but I think their uni start in October will be a lot more welcoming. I hope so, for their sakes.