Our level of operations

We wanted to update you on how the University is preparing for the start of the next academic year in light of the social distancing restrictions that are likely to still be in place. The safety and wellbeing of the Keele community is our highest priority, and we want to assure you that activities will only take place on campus where it is safe to do so. Keele has always prided itself on providing an excellent student experience, as evidenced by our unparallelled performance in the annual National Student Survey, and we are committed to continuing to provide that high quality experience both in person and online.

We plan to start next academic year with a hybrid delivery model, offering seminars, laboratory practicals (including field-based practical activity) and placement activities in their usual settings, complemented by online delivery, to replace large group teaching like lectures which cannot be accommodated at present due to social distancing.

However, we know that things are likely to change over the next few months, so we have implemented a five stage alert system (similar to the English Government’s alert system) that will define what studying at Keele will be like throughout the 2020/21 academic year, depending on the Government’s guidelines.