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<p>Dear All,</p>
<p>Please see below an email just sent to students by Paul McKenna.</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
<p>Brian.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><u>Message from Head of
Department, Prof. Paul McKenna</u><br>
<br>
Dear students,</p>
<p>This email contains an important update regarding the
delivery of our undergraduate and postgraduate taught degree
programmes. Please take the time to read it carefully.</p>
<p>The health, safety and wellbeing of our students and staff is
our priority and it’s important that we do all we can to help
restrict the spread of Covid-19. We are doing this with our
teaching by adapting the way we normally deliver our courses.
As you know, lectures are provided online and these are
supplemented by tutorials. In line with the Strathclyde
Student Pledge, tutorials have taken place online during the
first 3 weeks of the semester, with the expectation that we
would transition to blended learning with face-to-face
teaching in small group tutorials, subject to the evolving
Government guidance.</p>
<p>Yesterday, in response to the more stringent restrictions
imposed by the Scottish Government in the Central Belt from 9
- 25 October, the University’s Executive Team adjusted its
plans for the transition to blended learning, by rephasing the
commencement of the transition phase for two weeks.</p>
<p>The new arrangements mean that there will be <b>no
face-to-face teaching for the next two weeks</b> (weeks 4
and 5 of the semester 1 teaching term). Tutorials (in addition
to lectures and other forms of teaching) will continue to be
held online during these weeks.</p>
<p>Please contact your Adviser of Studies if you would like to
discuss this change in teaching delivery.</p>
<p>We continue to monitor the evolving situation created by the
pandemic and should that result in any additional changes to
how we deliver any aspect of your studies, we will ensure that
the changes are communicated to you as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Some of you will understandably be worried about
circumstances arising from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Advice and guidance is available at the following link: <a href="https://www.strath.ac.uk/coronavirus/students/">https://www.strath.ac.uk/coronavirus/students/</a>.
If you do have any queries on your personal circumstances
please contact your Advisor of Studies in the first instance,
at the relevant email address below.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>Paul McKenna</p>
<p>Head of Department, Physics</p>
<p><u>Year Adviser email addresses:</u></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-yr1@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-yr1@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-yr2@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-yr2@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-yr3@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-yr3@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-yr4@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-yr4@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-yr5@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-yr5@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1">
<a href="mailto:physics-adviser-PGT@strath.ac.uk">physics-adviser-PGT@strath.ac.uk</a></li>
</ul>
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Dr. Brian WJ McNeil
Department of Physics, SUPA & Cockcroft Institute
University of Strathclyde
107 Rottenrow East
Glasgow, G4 0NG
Scotland
Tel: 0141 548 4727
Fax: 0141 552 2891
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263</pre>
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