Students grumble over contact hours
A new study has found that students are unhappy with the number of their contact hours.
The study, carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), has shown that some of us have as little as two hours of lectures a week.
Dissatisfaction was found to be highest among those studying Arts and Social Sciences, with one joint Arts student remarking how their fees were “a huge amount of money to spend on four hours a week contact time.”
A politics student quoted in the report highlights the unfairness of the situation, asking “why does my course cost the same as chemistry or medicine, when I use no resources, except the libraries and have only six hours contact time per week?”
Specifically in Exeter, the new findings come during a term which has already seen one day of striking lecturers, with another planned for the 3rd December 2013 if the current “pay row is not resolved.”
The majority of lectures and tutorials will be called off, giving students even less contact time for their money.