Universities' annual funding reduced by £533m

Chrysalis

misskool wrote: »

It's not for the students, it's for the lecturers. Lecturers do not get paid extra to teach students, they are employed by the university to teach. During the summer they attend conferences and catch up on writing papers/books/grants.

Some universities now have summer schools where students who fail one/two modules can retake them during the summer and join their classmates when they pass their resits in August.

thanks for taking the time to answer my question, in that case using the summer break is not such a simple solution then.

Chrysalis

lostinrates wrote: »

For an individual a university might be a luxury: for (our) society they are a necessity. I wholeheartedly agree there are a lot of pointless degrees and some education for education's sake.

If, as a society, we limit our pool of intake to purely those who are rich enough to pay for it we severely limit our own resources: a lot of the people who contribute most in terms of knowledge and advancement would be unable to atend and develop their own ideas and personal development.

Reestablishing tougher entry requirements for funding might be an option, limiting places on some courses, and perhaps reviewing what is a degree subject/course content, and what should be a vocational, more practical or other sort of quailfication?

yeah I acknowledged that for certain things such as been a doctor a degree is needed, but in recent years many types of degrees have been introduced and I wonder how much they are actually needed by the system.