1-2 hours a week doing a BSc in Biology/Animal Studies and Conservation @ Staffordshire University in your second year? I know when I did my degree I was at Uni receiving lectures for over 30 hours a week for my first and second years. Is it really worth the debt for this?
Is this taking the Micky?
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That does sound a bit off.
I'm in my second year and I have 9hrs of timetabled lectures. I have workshops + tutorials on top of that, so probably 14hrs "contact time" in total.
I'm in my second year and I have 9hrs of timetabled lectures. I have workshops + tutorials on top of that, so probably 14hrs "contact time" in total.
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May as well put your spare time to good use to watch Bargain Hunt and get drunk like a good student.
Maybe there's just a lot of reading to be done. But does sound a bit short.
Engineering with 25+hours a week first 3 years and 4th was 9-1, lectures 1-5 lab... Daily... and still had work to do at home for the next day/end of week.
How do you kill that, which has no life.....
Engineering with 25+hours a week first 3 years and 4th was 9-1, lectures 1-5 lab... Daily... and still had work to do at home for the next day/end of week.
How do you kill that, which has no life.....
Maybe there's just a lot of reading to be done. But does sound a bit short.
Engineering with 25+hours a week first 3 years and 4th was 9-1, lectures 1-5 lab... Daily... and still had work to do at home for the next day/end of week.
How do you kill that, which has no life.....
Sounds similar to me. About 25 hours a week direct teaching first year, maybe 5 hours seminars and 5 hours lab work. Second year was slightly less direct contact but much more lab work and indirect tuition. Final year was about 20 hours a week direct contact, 10 hours lab minimum and 10 hours indirect tuition.
Lecturers recommended at least one hour outside work for each hour taught.
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Therein lies the problem. If I could go back and avoid that place at all costs I would
I went to staffs (when they still had a Stafford campus...) and did Comp Sci.
The thing to know about places like staffs university is that, academically, it's completely middle of the road as an institution. That does not mean there are not exceptional students or exceptional teachers, but in terms of reputation and general output, they aren't bad and they aren't good.
From a business perspective somewhere like that needs to make money, so they have some courses that follow a more traditional path seen across most universities (i.e. core subjects) and in those cases the work load is typical when compared to the likes of a red brick university. They also have other courses designed to entice people who otherwise might not have gone to uni, the cynic in me says mainly to make money and appear more appealing generally.
That is not to say people who undertake those subjects won't come out with a greater knowledge of that area and be better qualified to start in said topic, but chances are they might have been just as well off with some practical first hand experience rather than doing a few hours a week in a lecture theatre and a few more doing practical but theoretical exercises.
in effect these courses are the result of ex-polytechnics being forced to compete in a business sense with larger and longer established institutions on the same playing field.
The thing to know about places like staffs university is that, academically, it's completely middle of the road as an institution. That does not mean there are not exceptional students or exceptional teachers, but in terms of reputation and general output, they aren't bad and they aren't good.
From a business perspective somewhere like that needs to make money, so they have some courses that follow a more traditional path seen across most universities (i.e. core subjects) and in those cases the work load is typical when compared to the likes of a red brick university. They also have other courses designed to entice people who otherwise might not have gone to uni, the cynic in me says mainly to make money and appear more appealing generally.
That is not to say people who undertake those subjects won't come out with a greater knowledge of that area and be better qualified to start in said topic, but chances are they might have been just as well off with some practical first hand experience rather than doing a few hours a week in a lecture theatre and a few more doing practical but theoretical exercises.
in effect these courses are the result of ex-polytechnics being forced to compete in a business sense with larger and longer established institutions on the same playing field.
You jelly bro ? More time to lvl up than you ?
It doesn't sound that worth the debt no. But im sure* its just one term. Im sure they also must have a lot of lab work or reading to also do and that responsible students seek part time work to help fund themselves instead of acquiring vast debts.
* Im really just guessing.
