On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 08:41:45 +0100, Tim Watts wrote:

On Wednesday 03 July 2013 22:14 Fredxx wrote in uk.d-i-y:


No they're not!!

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/n.../How-students-
charged-9-000-tuition-fees-courses-really-cost-just-6-000-run.html

I have also read that the contact time between university and students
is alarmingly few hours and so real tuition fees per hour are
astronomical.

UK Universities do not represent good value for money for students!

When I was at York Uni in 1986, we have 90 odd UG's per year and
tutorial groups of about 6. there were regular supervisor (overall
tutor) meetings too.

It's one of the reasons I chose York, over say, Southampton who really
did not seem to have their act together at the time.

We have first year formal contact hours of about 14 per week. However,
staff are available for individual consultation (well, most are!) and we
also communicate on Facebook, by email, etc. We mostly operate open door
policies during working hours and quite a few (including me) will respond
even in the early hours.

The department (as you probably know) sees only a proportion of the fees
- the rest is withheld centrally. We have to pay staff and buy equipment,
pay rent (!) etc. out of what we get.



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