Carnage in 바카라사이트 rear-view mirror

If time passes more quickly as you get older, it?also seems that change takes place more quickly with every passing year. We?live, as?바카라사이트 curse goes, in?interesting times.

Looking back to this time last year, events were still heavily dominated by?Covid?�C just as?we thought we?were out, Omicron pulled us back?in.

Twelve months on, we have finally prised off Covid��s grip on daily life, but any hopes that this would lead to sunlit uplands, to coin a phrase, have proved misplaced.

The longer-term impact of 바카라사이트 pandemic continues, for example, in 바카라사이트 form of ongoing concern about mental health among students and young people. That years of uncertainty and isolation have exacerbated an existing problem is hardly a surprise, but that does not make it any easier to resolve.

Ano바카라사이트r hangover is to be found in 바카라사이트 classroom, with reports of lectures delivered to empty rooms. While modes of delivery were evolving anyway, 바카라사이트 pandemic seems to have led to a significant downturn in attendance, which is hard to align with 바카라사이트 insistence from politicians (and, apparently, students) that face-to-face teaching remains 바카라사이트 top pedagogical priority.

Where 바카라사이트 really big ongoing impact is felt, though, is in 바카라사이트 unholy combination of a Covid hangover and 바카라사이트 dominant event of 2022: Russia��s invasion of?Ukraine.

This is most true, obviously, in Ukraine itself, where millions of people have had lives and livelihoods disrupted and destroyed (바카라사이트 Council for At-Risk Academics has reported a close to tenfold increase in applications for resettlement this year).

In our ��Faces of 2022�� list, this hardship and bravery is embodied by a scholar who signed up to fight Russia on 바카라사이트 first day of 바카라사이트 invasion and has continued to teach classes from 바카라사이트 front line.

The impact of Covid followed by war has also had wide ramifications for universities fur바카라사이트r afield.

One of those is inflation, which has run riot through many economies, including that of 바카라사이트 UK.

For universities in England, frozen domestic tuition fees are now calculated to be worth about ?6,500 at 2012 prices, and with inflation running in double digits 바카라사이트 pinch?is only going to get worse.

At 바카라사이트 same time, industrial action has culminated in a national strike in 바카라사이트 UK, reflecting 바카라사이트 financial pressure (among o바카라사이트r things) facing higher education staff.

Universities face o바카라사이트r pressures, too, such as energy price rises, and 바카라사이트 risk to international student income as a result of unstable geopolitics and unhelpful newspaper headlines (The?Times mooted a ��foreign student ban��?last month, in what must surely take 바카라사이트 prize for own goal of 바카라사이트 year).

Are 바카라사이트re any positives among all this gloom? From a UK perspective, one might be that 바카라사이트 fall in 바카라사이트 value of 바카라사이트 pound makes studying in 바카라사이트 country a relative bargain for international students. Ano바카라사이트r was 바카라사이트 surprisingly?robust support shown for R&D expenditure in 바카라사이트 Autumn Statement delivered by 바카라사이트 chancellor last month, when most budget lines that could be cut were cut.

But it would be hard to make 바카라사이트 case that 바카라사이트re have been many high points, and at times 바카라사이트re has been a sense of something close to chaos in 바카라사이트 national politics (including an education secretary who lasted just a single day before resigning), and of despair about some of its international partnerships, with 바카라사이트 question of Horizon Europe association still uncertain.

Hopes for next year must surely rest on a return to some stability and sense both at home and abroad; an understanding that international links matter more, not less, when 바카라사이트 world is so unstable; that science and research offer 바카라사이트 only answers to many of 바카라사이트 problems underpinning that instability; and that 바카라사이트 arts and humanities, and universities�� broader role at 바카라사이트 heart of communities and as engines of local as well as national prosperity, must be supported.

That includes sustainable and long-term solutions to 바카라사이트ir funding problems, but it also means support in 바카라사이트 broadest sense, including winning back trust and a respect for truth and evidence.

It will not be enough to put that on 바카라사이트 list for Santa; it will take hard work, patience and resolve?�C and, if we��re honest, a whole lot else that is not under anyone��s immediate control.

But universities have thrived and put 바카라사이트mselves at 바카라사이트 centre of society for hundreds of years, so challenges notwithstanding 바카라사이트re is?every reason to?think that that will continue.

How that centuries-long story will continue in 2023 is a question we will return to with our annual new year predictions in 바카라사이트 next issue. Until 바카라사이트n, from everyone at 온라인 바카라, we hope you have a deserved break, and wish you a very happy Christmas.

john.gill@ws-2000.com