freshers
There’s an interesting article about first year uni students in the Age, linking to a new study. I was interested to read that:
- students now have less contact hours
- although more students work, they work no more hours than ten years ago
- students from a higher socio-economic group work more than students from lower socio-economic groups.
Counter-intuitive and therefore interesting. I hear a lot of complaints (from both students and academics) about the amount of outside work that students take on, and it is often cited as a reason for failure.
attila:
The report also says that mature age students are “more likely to seek assistance from staff”.
It doesn’t seem to state that mature age students are also more likely to:
a) use the lecturer’s name at the beginning of every sentence;
b) attempt to show how they have done the extra reading by asking irrelevant rhetorical questions; and
c) bore fellow students with stories about their children and/or the unfairness of the child support scheme
22 June 2005, 1:59 am