Institutions are still grappling with the challenge of understanding how to achieve the full return of students and staff safely.
While all 26 institutions were still grappling with the challenge of understanding how to achieve the full return of students and staff safely, Green said universities were required by legislation, and in particular the Occupational Health and Safety Act, to take steps to secure the safety of staff, students and the wider community.
"Individual rights should not trump the common good. Public health is a common good. So, the engagements in universities to ensure that health, safety and well-being of staff, students and local communities are not a matter of the infringement of individual rights but rather the balancing of individual and social rights," she said,
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