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  • Symptom-trackers and doctor dorms: how universities are fighting Covid-19

    Rachel Hall

    April 09, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Cambridge

    In the UK, universities are playing a role in containing the coronavirus and helping communities cope by creating innovative solutions and using of technology to expand access. From converting shipping containers into vertical farms that provide food to those experiencing homelessness to teaching businesses how to move their work online, "universities are using their research and resources to improve people’s lives."

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  • 'It means everything': the university opening its doors to asylum seekers

    Rachel Hall

    July 10, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England

    The Compass Project, based out of the UK, provides one year of education for asylum seekers that serves as a foot in the door into the national higher education system. In the sometimes years before they can gain refugee status, asylum seekers living in the UK lack many of the rights and much of the access other citizens take for granted. Now, activists are considering how the Compass Project and other scattered university aid programs can band together to enact more systemic change.

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