[vc_row type=”full_width_background” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” video_bg=”use_video” video_external=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZTfaXpG9gc” text_color=”light” text_align=”left” bottom_padding=”25%” enable_gradient=”true” color_overlay=”#5b14e0″ color_overlay_2=”#0de518″ gradient_direction=”left_t_to_right_b” overlay_strength=”0.8″ enable_shape_divider=”true” shape_divider_color=”#ffffff” shape_divider_position=”bottom” shape_divider_height=”250″ bg_image_animation=”none” video_mute=”true” shape_type=”curve”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/6″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][/vc_column][vc_column centered_text=”true” column_padding=”padding-1-percent” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”2/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][split_line_heading]
Good news on the horizon?
The University of Bolton is to fully open from September.
[/split_line_heading][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” text_align=”left”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”padding-4-percent” column_padding_position=”left-right” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” bottom_margin=”-26%” column_link_target=”_self” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][nectar_video_lightbox link_style=”play_button_with_text” nectar_play_button_color=”Default-Accent-Color” font_style=”p” video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJKuGwVls7M” link_text=”Watch How Bolton Plan To Open”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/6″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” overlay_strength=”0.3″ shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_position=”all” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_link_target=”_self” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column_text]The University of Bolton has implemented an ambitious plan to ensure that they’re OPEN for the next academic year. The news comes off the back of news that the prestigious University of Cambridge is set to move some of their teaching online from September.
Bolton’s measures will mean that their campus is open and students will enjoy the same level of tutoring and education that they would have received before the Coronavirus epidemic. Albeit with some noticeable changes, which will include;
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- Socially distanced face-to-face tutorials, laboratory experience, access to arts studios and specialist facilities
- A scheduling system, limiting the number of students on campus at any one time
- Timed sessions for access to campus – “possibly between 8am-2pm and 2pm-8pm”
- Airport-style walk-through temperature scanners at every building entry
- Additional sanitiser stations
- Compulsory wearing of face coverings on campus “for the foreseeable future”
- Walking routes including one-way navigation
- Multiple ‘learning zones’ featuring tables with plastic dividing screens
- Rigorous cleansing programme throughout all university buildings.
Professor George E Holmes, President and Vice Chancellor of the University of Bolton, said:
“From September we will provide a covid secure working environment for students and staff. Students will have access to a fully operational University campus and be able to study and engage in person with other students and staff.”
“This will mean widespread changes to create a ‘new normal’ on campus and enable all students to physically attend the university campus safely at specified sessions.
“During those sessions they will be able to work in laboratories, studios and workshops, attend tutorials, meet other students or converse with their tutor, on top of continuing their learning online. I am determined that the University of Bolton is ahead of the game in transforming its campus.”
“The university student experience is not just about learning. Students want to see their friends in person, they want to engage with their tutors.”[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]