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January 2022 finds our DC packing their big coats, checking the forecast for snow and wondering when Michaelmas actally is...?

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Nope @Longtimenewsee . All seems to be quite on that front

I asked DD last night re the strikes and she said the same @Longtimenewsee , she thinks it will be next week, it’s annoying as she is coming home for a family thing at the end of next week , would come sooner if she knows she doesn’t have lectures.

DS says lots of people have gone home for a few days... seemingly to recover from a bit of mid term burn out....

Honestly, the yuuuuff of today!!!! They've got no stamina!

Lol @MidLifeCrisis007 . Dd and friends definitely much better behaved than my student days.
I guess if they know they have no lectures/ reduced lectures due to strikes, they can do it online at home? And get some nice family time. Not an option for Dd- as even if a few lectures/ practicals were cancelled, she’d still have a pretty full timetable and early starts.
We are visiting her soon though so I’ll get my fix of her I’ve just booked beamish tickets and I’m going to book a restaurant.

I bet you can't wait Longtimenewsee

I'm heading up next Friday to see my DS and I'm so excited. I miss him so much. Our house isn't the same without him.

Aww have a lovely time @NotEnoughTime. Yes .. can’t wait to see my girl.

Thanks Longtimenewsee-you too.

We can compare notes after our visit

I spoke to DS earlier and he said none of the lecturers have to say in advance whether they'll be striking.... so he'll have to turn up to see if the lectures are going ahead.

I've lost all sympathy with his lecturers over this.

That's awful @MidLifeCrisis007 😔

I guess to have impact they have to make students suffer in the Hope students will cause an uproar against the Uni? I hate it that educators feel this way

I have every sympathy with the strikers but it is unfair that it is the students who suffer

That's kind of the point of strikes though isn't it, causing problems for others. If nobody was inconvenienced by strikes they wouldn't be a very good tool for workers!

@OakleyStreetisnotinChelsea whilst that's true the target is the university itself and not the students . Yet it's the students who will suffer

I assume the university doesn't pay the strikers for the days that they strike. The students still have to pay the university though for tuition they don't get.

When the strikers don't have the decency to tell their students to not waste their time turning up to lectures that won't be happening, I can have no sympathy for them. Wasting the time AND money of students is totally inexcusable.

Thank you chopc that's exactly what I meant.

Just put DS on the train back to The North. So lovely to see him for a long weekend.

Anyone know if the Durham maths department has issued offers yet? DC still waiting on Durham and UCL.

TSR is often the best source of info on when the offers have been issued. I’m currently scouring their boards for DD’s choices!

Glad you had a lovely weekend with your Ds @KingscoteStaff. It’s so nice to have them home for a bit.
This term seems to be flying by- I can’t believe they are halfway through the year!

@benchmarked

Anyone know if the Durham maths department has issued offers yet? DC still waiting on Durham and UCL.

DD has had an offer from Durham for Maths and Physics in the last week. I read physics offers are out too, so hopefully maths alone will be soon too 🤞🏻

KingscoteStaff Is your DD hoping to go to Durham too? It would be handy for you if she was.

@NotEnoughTime - She's applying for Medicine, so sadly Durham is not an option...

However, Newcastle is - so fingers firmly crossed for an offer from there!

KingscoteStaff

Near enough then!

Fingers crossed for your DD-I know Medicine is notoriously difficult.

Does anyone know if there have been any economics offers made yet?

@mmzz economics offers went out really late ast year, think around March. Certainly the last offer received.