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T2 0-81 Sentence denotes The COVID-19 pandemic has already cost UK universities an estimated £790 million.
T3 82-172 Sentence denotes The shutdown has meant that accommodation, catering, and conference income has evaporated.
T4 173-216 Sentence denotes A similar situation is evolving in the USA.
T5 217-392 Sentence denotes In the 2017 fiscal year, the US higher education sector earned about US$44·6 billion in so-called auxiliary revenues, such as bookstores, halls of residence, and summer camps.
T6 393-453 Sentence denotes The figure for this year is likely to be nearer $30 billion.
T7 454-594 Sentence denotes Meanwhile, Australia expects its higher education sector to lose somewhere in the region of AUS$3–4·6 billion for the 2019–20 academic year.
T8 595-724 Sentence denotes Universities worldwide have been forced rapidly to scale up online teaching, which has typically entailed unexpected expenditure.
T9 725-855 Sentence denotes They have had to find money to continue paying their staff, as well as deep-cleaning facilities and mothballing research projects.
T10 856-976 Sentence denotes Yet, sizeable as the losses are for the current academic year, they could easily be dwarfed by those expected next year.
T11 977-1063 Sentence denotes The economic downturn will force thousands of youngsters to defer entering university.
T12 1064-1131 Sentence denotes More than 20 million Americans lost their jobs in April 2020 alone.
T13 1132-1237 Sentence denotes Students from outside the UK and EU contribute about £6·9 billion in yearly fees to British universities.
T14 1238-1435 Sentence denotes Encouraged by successive governments, who wished to bolster commercial education, institutions have come to rely on this money, which represents about a third of the total income from tuition fees.
T15 1436-1540 Sentence denotes A collapse in the international student market, which seems inevitable, would have serious consequences.
T16 1541-1572 Sentence denotes Australia is similarly exposed.
T17 1573-1643 Sentence denotes Its higher education sector hosts more 300 000 students from overseas.
T18 1644-1838 Sentence denotes Terry Hartle (Vice-President of the American Council on Education, Washington, DC, USA) expects international enrolments in US universities and colleges to fall by at least a quarter in 2020–21.
T19 1839-1999 Sentence denotes Prospective students might also be put off by the physical distancing requirements that are likely to prevail on university campuses for the foreseeable future.
T20 2000-2225 Sentence denotes Much will depend on the dynamics of the pandemic. “We really do not have a handle on what will happen when it comes to September”, said Hartle. “Very few schools in the USA are certain that they will be able to open on time.”
T21 2226-2340 Sentence denotes The shift to online learning looks set to continue at least until the advent of a successful vaccine for COVID-19.
T22 2341-2883 Sentence denotes This situation raises questions about whether institutions can justify a fee structure predicated on a model of face-to-face contact. “Students generally report that university is much more than just tuition—place is also really important”, said Simon Marginson (Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK). “If students are going to miss half of what usually constitutes the student experience, are they really receiving the same value for money?” Furthermore, online learning is no substitute for laboratory work.
T23 2884-3173 Sentence denotes Moreover, recessions diminish the prospects for graduate employment. “You have a downgrading of the student experience and a downgrading of the value of the degree; I think it is going to be difficult for universities to sustain the same level of fees that they have been”, said Marginson.
T24 3174-3537 Sentence denotes It could easily add up to a perfect storm: weakening of domestic and international demand coupled with pressure to decrease fees. “Without any action, universities will be forced to make huge cuts, jobs will be lost, and vital research will be halted”, a spokesperson for Universities UK, an umbrella group representing 137 institutions, told The Lancet Oncology.
T25 3538-3957 Sentence denotes “Pretty much every university in the country is looking at voluntary redundancies”, added Malcolm Reed (Dean of Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, UK, and Co-Chair of the Medical Schools Council, London, UK). “A lot of staff on short-term contracts are likely to go, and funding for PhDs is looking very precarious because of the impact on charities; our pool of future researchers is going to be shallower.”
T26 3958-4103 Sentence denotes Prestigious research institutions, such as Harvard (Cambridge, MA, USA) or Oxford (UK) universities, are well placed to weather the coming storm.
T27 4104-4484 Sentence denotes But places that fall lower down the league tables are vulnerable, especially if international student fees form a big part of their income. “For the most part, medical schools and high-quality research will be ring-fenced from changes”, said Marginson. “Medicine and life sciences are very strong in the UK system; I am confident that they will survive when other things go down”.
T28 4485-4531 Sentence denotes Much will depend on the depth of the downturn.
T29 4532-4694 Sentence denotes Reed points out that medical schools are integrated within the university's wider economy. “If the university is under threat, so is the medical school”, he said.
T30 4695-4797 Sentence denotes Clinical placements for UK medical students in their penultimate year have been suspended since March.
T31 4798-4889 Sentence denotes Reed hopes that if they are able to restart by September, the lost ground can be recovered.
T32 4890-5120 Sentence denotes But any further delay would be problematic. “There is no simple answer as to how to deal with students who have missed 6 months of their clinical experience”, said Reed. “It would be a real threat to graduating on time next year”.
T33 5121-5237 Sentence denotes As The Lancet Oncology went to press, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide was approaching 5 million.
T34 5238-5370 Sentence denotes In the absence of substantial financial support, many of the world's colleges and universities are unlikely to survive the pandemic.
T35 5371-5540 Sentence denotes Others will have to shut down large projects or sell property. “This is an epochal event”, said Hartle. “It is going to leave a huge impression on the education sector.”
T36 5541-5725 Sentence denotes © 2020 Ruth Swan/Shutterstock.com2020Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
T37 5726-5836 Sentence denotes The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website.
T38 5837-6240 Sentence denotes Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source.
T39 6241-6351 Sentence denotes These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.