STUDENTS' LIFE AT SUSSEX - I
There is no prohibition on smoking on the campus. Students (both boys and girls) and staff smoke but nobody can smoke inside the class rooms, offices and buildings because smoke detectors are kept for fire safety reasons. I have observed that there are no lunch breaks for students since everybody gets enough time gap in between the lectures and practicals. Though the lectures are of one hour no teacher engages full one hour for delivering the lectures. Always it is 45 minute lectures and very rarely it is 60 minutes. During last 15 minutes the teacher is available in the class room for students to solve their subject difficulties. Very few students have difficulties in the subject. Rest of the students move out of the class. Here the students are required to change their class room after every lecture/ every one hour. And these lectures are not in the same building. They have to move from one building to the other. It takes minimum 10 minutes.
Why is it that very few students have difficulties? Is it because everything is simplified during lectures? What about the interactive component? Are lecture sessions interactive? Does advance supply of ppt notes have anything to do with this? If students do not ask for clarification of difficulties during the last 15 minutes of the 60 minutes session does the professor also leave the lecture hall along with other students?
ReplyDeleteLecture classes are always interactive. Any student in the class can raise their hand and ask question(s) to the teacher any moment. Same way teacher also asks quetion(s) to the students during the lecture hour. Those students who want to meet the teacher in the class during last fifteen minutes they do so, otherwise the availability of teachers is known to all students since it is announced in thelass,displayed outside the office of the individual staff and on the website.I have seen that the teacher is always in the class for 60 minutes because students are getting their difficulties solved,sometimes beyond 60 minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that students do not have difficulties must translate into good grades. How many lectures students have every day on the five week days? When do they get time to use library, sports and other facilities on the campus? What time do they start?
ReplyDeleteNormally students have five hours teaching every day. The library is open for 24 hours.Students join for different sports clubs of Sussex like football club,Hockey club....; Other facilities like computer clusters (labs.) are available from 8.00am to 9.00pm everyday. Transport from University to Brighton city is also available for 24 hours.Lectures begin at 9.00am.
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