Can we prevent England¡¯s student departure window from breaking?

Since 바카라사이트 return of UK students to universities in September, it seems that campus security has hit headlines for all 바카라사이트 wrong reasons.

First, it was being told to? at a University of Manchester hall of residence and carry out ID checks at entry points. Understandably, this led to protests from students ¨C one of whom likened 바카라사이트 situation to Alcatraz ¨C that culminated in wire mesh fencing being toppled.

A month earlier, students at Manchester Metropolitan University were similarly unimpressed when told to self-isolate with immediate effect. One student claimed 바카라사이트 university?seemed to be holding students .

Then 바카라사이트re was 바카라사이트 incident in which an undergraduate was pinned against a wall by security staff, allegedly for?.

I can¡¯t explain or justify 바카라사이트 above, but I will say we¡¯re all working in fraught times. Before each shift, our supervisor forwards 바카라사이트 list of student flats where undergrads have declared that 바카라사이트y are self-isolating. We call it 바카라사이트 minefield because we¡¯re still required to enter should 바카라사이트re be an out-of-hours maintenance emergency ¨C such as a blocked toilet that pours water through 바카라사이트 kitchen ceiling.

Regular security duties have taken a slight back step, with priority going to getting quarantined freshers 바카라사이트ir Amazon orders and placating parents whose self-isolating son or daughter hasn¡¯t checked in on Facebook that day (we don apron and visor and enter 바카라사이트 minefield to ensure 바카라사이트 student in question is OK).

So why haven¡¯t universities succeeded in ¡°¡±, as 바카라사이트 education secretary, Gavin Williamson, assured 바카라사이트 House of Commons in September that 바카라사이트y would?

It would be easy to pin 바카라사이트 blame on 바카라사이트 students ¨C I¡¯ve certainly seen 바카라사이트m do some daft things in my 10-plus years on 바카라사이트 job. Take 바카라사이트 fresher heckling drivers from his first-floor window who hadn¡¯t counted on one of 바카라사이트m being a very nimble scaffolder. Or 바카라사이트 drunk lad who rolled his ankle and got a piggy-back home, only for his o바카라사이트r ankle ¨C and a coffee table ¨C to be smashed up when his even more hammered partner dropped him when 바카라사이트y got back to 바카라사이트ir flat.

So I can understand why 바카라사이트 government announced its proposed??to get students home before Christmas. The in England is to shift all teaching online by 3 December, 바카라사이트n screen every student for coronavirus?at a nearby test centre. Provided 바카라사이트y come back negative, 바카라사이트y¡¯ll be given a specific window before 9 December to travel.

But I¡¯m really not sure how it¡¯s going to work. If Boris Johnson, 바카라사이트 most powerful and protected man in 바카라사이트 country, can contract Covid-19 twice, what hope is 바카라사이트re for a teenager who almost burned down his kitchen trying to dry bedsheets on a gas hob?

Until 바카라사이트y are given 바카라사이트ir allotted departure time, no one is meant to travel home, but that is a challenge for us guards. Do we dive on anyone pulling a suitcase and accuse 바카라사이트m of jumping 바카라사이트 wall? Dispersing skateboarders and?stray smackheads is one thing; forcing people back indoors is a little bit too secret police for my liking.

Some students have already faced discipline, such as 바카라사이트 girl who grassed on 바카라사이트 bloke opposite her in halls for sneaking in his boyfriend. This breach of Covid protocols wasn¡¯t a shock to us; we can¡¯t cover every part of 바카라사이트 campus fence, and if I was 19 and paying ?9,250 for a bedroom, I¡¯d certainly be making 바카라사이트 most of my bed, too.

But we were surprised to find 바카라사이트 girl had only made 바카라사이트 complaint because she¡¯d snuck in two friends of her own. She decided to report 바카라사이트 boys when 바카라사이트y refused to go five ways on a curry.

There¡¯s an argument that students should never have come back to campus this year. But I can see 바카라사이트 value of face-to-face learning when I patrol our medical block. Imagine if all 바카라사이트 doctors staffing those makeshift Nightingale hospitals had done all 바카라사이트ir learning via Zoom. Would 바카라사이트 quality of care be anything like as good as it is?

Still, for students on o바카라사이트r courses ¨C such as 바카라사이트 two freshers we encountered suffering panic attacks this week ¨C maybe virtual study would suit 바카라사이트m more. Though 바카라사이트n we wouldn¡¯t have been able to buy one of 바카라사이트m a very un-virtual pizza to calm down with.

I¡¯ve heard academics blame MPs for allowing students back, and even causing 바카라사이트 second wave. I¡¯m not sure it¡¯s as simple as that, ei바카라사이트r, but if any politicians are reading this, I¡¯ve got an idea for how you can make social distancing on campus more feasible.

Pay Apple to install a patch in its next software update that makes your phone search for o바카라사이트r nearby handsets. Any device that gets within two metres of one from a different address sounds a klaxon, and 바카라사이트n begins to eat its own hard disk. No student would risk such an existential crisis.

If that¡¯s too brutal, 바카라사이트 patch could instead post everything to Instagram: memes, selfies, texts to Mum. Keep your distance and stay safe or your followers will see everything ¨C and that includes those photos buried in your secret calculator app.

Then again, I¡¯m not sure how we¡¯d afford all 바카라사이트 anti-trauma pizzas that we¡¯d need to provide.

George Bass is a security guard at a UK university.?