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‘I suspect all of you, like us, will have been looking back at the past 12 months, and thinking about what the pandemic has meant for you. Despite the challenges, there have been positives for us: tremendous support from alumni that has enabled us to give practical help to our students hit hardest by the pandemic, a real sense of the College pulling together in a crisis, and great teaching and research going on even when life was virtual. But alongside the stress that it has placed on so many people – students and staff – it’s made us realise that a College without people in it to support, inspire and energise each other in real life is not a community in the fullest sense of the word. So we are very much looking forward – with fingers firmly crossed – to welcoming students and staff back for Trinity Term as lockdown is gradually eased. And we hope the sun will shine!’
Dame Helen Ghosh DCB, Master of Balliol
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