'Balliol remains open to students who cannot leave Oxford due to medical advice, travel constraints, or family circumstance. We currently have about 100 students with us, across all our sites. Fellows and staff able to work from home have been asked to do so. This means we are providing only skeleton services to the students who remain with us, but I have sent a very clear message to them that "we are here if you need us". The University has decided that teaching, classes, lectures and examinations will take place online. We may have a Trinity Term with no or very few students in residence, which will be a very odd experience for all of us! But the College has already significantly improved its use of technology in order to function, so we are well placed to respond to this challenge.' 

Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Master of Balliol

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