Students - what do you think of your uni?

brendon

One of my major problems with the fee is that it is the same for all courses. I study Mathematics, and we work with pen and paper. We don't have access to £10,000,000 lab equipment, and the costs for our courses are much less to the university than for chemistry (say).

Considering only lectures, we collectively are paying about £10,000 per hour of lectures. Of course, that puts aside the costs of computers, facilities, etc, but I really don't understand where my year group's £2.25 million per year actually goes.

TurnUpForTheBooks_2

nimbo wrote: »

me wrote:

Erm ... so should that really be Tuition Fees £9000 pa, or some other more suitably named chargeable head wot means we let you learn stuff in our name whilst we're in absentia ?

eh????

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Quite
No please forgive me, I should have said "so is 'Tuition Fees' an apt title for the £9,000 pa charged, or would some other title (reflecting the absence of much tuition) be more self-explanatory ?


And yes brendon, you have a very good point, but perhaps you are forgetting the cost of the chalk or smart board in the lecture theatre, the high powered outpourings of concentrated boffin juice and the photocopying of confetti-like problem sheets!

Wyndham

The amount of money in Universities hasn't changed - what has changed is where it comes from. Now most is from tuition fees, whereas in the past, much more came from HEFCE. And if Universities have the same amount of money as they had previously, how can they significantly improve services?

VanyaHargreeves

I'm studying Uni of Brighton. It was not my first choice to go here - far, far from, in fact. I was going to go to Kings, but due to (in complete honesty) my sheer and utter laziness, I did very, very badly in my A-Levels. Most of the other people I know at uni also got in through clearing. I think that because of this, I'm rather biased against the uni already. But I find the resources rather lacking - there's never a free computer, the library isn't wonderfully stocked, etc. I have very few contact hours, and two of my lecturers live abroad and commute into work, so they're never available. My lectures get cancelled quite often as well. Not ideal. I don't think it's worth £9,000 at all.

Emma_N

Where do the tuition fees go?

Wages for the senior management team/bigwigs. VCs, pro-VCs, Deans etc all get paid a lot. VCs get paid loads.

Wages for lecturers and support staff.

Heating, gas, water, electricity bills. These must be huge as most of the university buildings I have used are not exactly energy efficient.

Money on building projects. I use the library at my local redbrick university. There is always some type of building work taking place. I assume that the aim is to provide a better "student experience" now the fees are so high.

Money on equipment, maintaining buildings, security staff (increased since the recent protests).

I would love to know how much money universities spend on PR/advertising companies/advertising. For example, I have spotted adverts for Brum University on trains and on the Underground. This must have increased since the £9000 fees were introduced?