Storm Goretti closes a campus and strands students returning to term
Snow from Storm Goretti forced the University of Warwick to close its campus temporarily and disrupted trains and buses as students returned after Christmas. Weather closures raise the same questions every time: whether teaching is rescheduled or recorded, whether a missed assessment counts, and who pays for a cancelled train. Your university’s adverse weather policy answers the first two, and rail delay repay the third.
Why one college changing its recruitment matters more than it looks
A Cambridge MPhil student sets out why Trinity Hall’s decision to approach elite private schools is a problem beyond the college: admissions signals travel, and applicants from state schools already read a set of signals about where they are wanted. The piece is measured about what the college can and cannot control, which most of the coverage this week has not been.