Following the publication of our coronavirus student survey, Bath School of Design head Kerry Curtis reflects on a rollercoaster year that forced students and staff to adapt to remote learning.

Early in March 2020, just before the UK went into its first lockdown, we were settling into our new Locksbrook Campus. But rather than displaying students' work on the walls, we were pinning up posters advising on Covid-19 precautions.
On 4 March we held a campus launch event and we noted that many of our London-based guests sent their apologies as they were feeling a "little under the weather".
The next day we started discussing contingency scenarios and soon we were working on the swiftest, most collaborative approach that I have ever seen as we scrambled to prepare for the inevitable closure of the campus. Academic teams had rewritten the curriculum for online delivery and had discussed new approaches with students in course meetings by Friday 20 March. The techs loaned out as much equipment as possible and students cleared out their studios dragging rolls of fabrics, half-finished experiments and portfolios behind them.
By Monday 23 March we had closed campuses and moved to online-only teaching
Students laughed, cried, got angry and booked taxis, trains and flights home, often with their parents on speakerphone. By Monday 23 March ? just ahead of the UK's nationwide lockdown order on 26 March ? we had closed campuses and moved to online-only teaching.
On 28 September 2...