“The relevant people in government see universities as antagonists, political antagonists, and people like me as the enemy.”The situation was complicated by a scandal over university entrance exams this summer. That made it impossible for Britain’s universities to implement the sort of on-campus social distancing that American colleges have used to try to contain the virus. At Manchester Metropolitan, a 33,000-student campus, at least 137 students were quickly infected and 1,500 freshmen forced to isolate. “It really was abandonment,” Ms. Dorado said of the university. “They put in barely anything to battle this, and it’s come at the expense of our mental and physical health, really.”

Source: New York Times October 06, 2020 18:50 UTC