Some of the best subjects I took were on campus. Learning via Zoom can’t beat this

‘You will find yourself without your friends in a group project, but it might bring you together with people you might never have met otherwise’, writes Maddie Thomas. Photograph: Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images

In 2020, as our lives moved to Zoom, debate over whether online learning for university students would be here to stay began. Two years on, and we still have no clear answer.

Last week, the University of Sydney announced that from semester 2, 2023, subjects will not be offered remotely, and classes will revert to pre-pandemic modes of teaching. The message is clear: come back to campus.