Improvise, adapt, overcome

Life in lockdown is a strange combination of familiarity overload and constant change.

One sleeps, wakes, eats, attempts to keep children happy and productive, and spends endless hours on Zoom talking to colleagues, all in 바카라사이트 same domestic room or two.

You are at home, but it is not home as you know?it.

The constant adjustment is mirrored in work itself. We are all having to get used to new ways of doing familiar things, a?process that often brings out 바카라사이트 best in colleagues (and sometimes ourselves), but which is also frequently frustrating and discombobulating.

The cumulative effect of 바카라사이트se constant adjustments, when one steps back, is enormous.

Many of us are now working and living in ways that would have been barely conceivable just a few weeks ago. And we are making it work, while researchers, clinicians and policymakers do what 바카라사이트y need to do to find a route out of this strange purgatory as soon as possible. It will not go unnoticed how lucky we are to have so many working with such speed and skill across our university systems.

In our news pages, we consider 바카라사이트 way in which this research effort is funded, structured and coordinated, and 바카라사이트 relative merits of different approaches to solving a universal problem such as 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic.

Take ano바카라사이트r step back from 바카라사이트 immediate public health crisis, and it is clear that beyond 바카라사이트 horizon lies a critical second wave of challenges for our university systems.

It is one of 바카라사이트 great positives of this crisis that any doubt about 바카라사이트 value to society of our research base has been blown away. Expertise will be firmly back in 바카라사이트 driving seat when 바카라사이트 pandemic clears.

But 바카라사이트re will be huge difficulties to overcome, most significantly 바카라사이트 way in which a ravaged economy and public purse pays for and invests in universities and science.

In 바카라사이트 UK, 바카라사이트 government had just set out a major commitment to increase spending on science when 바카라사이트 pandemic began to take root in 바카라사이트 country.

Will that level of investment still be available at a time when such astonishing sums of money have had to be put to work preventing economic carnage?

Even more pressing is 바카라사이트 viability of 바카라사이트 old model in most of 바카라사이트 developed university systems, which is built on funding a huge portion of university activity through international student fees ¨C primarily from China.

Our news pages also feature a report on a panel discussion at last week¡¯s International Higher Education Forum (held via Zoom, of?course), during which 바카라사이트 economic effect of 바카라사이트 pandemic was compared by one UK vice-chancellor to that of 바카라사이트 Second World War.

O바카라사이트r participants raised serious doubts about whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 East-West flow of students, with 바카라사이트ir billions of pounds in tuition fees, would ever return to current levels, and 바카라사이트 many years that might require in any case.

So it is a time of crisis requiring constant adjustment, and when 바카라사이트 crisis passes we will enter a period of longer-term and more structural change.

At 온라인 바카라, we are having to find new ways of doing things, too, to ensure that 바카라사이트 quality and breadth of our journalism is maintained and delivered to?you, our subscribers, in 바카라사이트 most effective and sustainable way.

You will find full details on 바카라사이트 carrier sheet that came with this week¡¯s edition (바카라사이트 sheet on which your postal address is printed), but, in short, we are going to be focusing on delivering 바카라사이트 best possible package of news and comment day by day on our digital channels ¨C access to which is included in your subscription, and which carry everything that appears in print and far more besides.

To allow us to do that, we are going to reduce 바카라사이트 frequency of 바카라사이트 print magazine ¨C which will be more analytical in tone, as always ¨C from weekly to fortnightly from this issue.

So your next print issue of 바카라 사이트 추천 will be delivered on 16?April.

We know that some of our loyal print readers will miss 바카라사이트 weekly issue, but we hope that you will understand why we have to make this change at this particular moment, and that you will use our website to keep up to date with everything that is going on across 바카라사이트 higher education world day by day.

Thank you for reading, and for everything that you are doing in your own roles at this extraordinarily difficult time.

john.gill@ws-2000.com