Highest marks for our subject in a UK poll about student satisfaction at university. Classics gets a 93% which in most high schools would merit the lowest A and is the highest rated affect when it comes to personal satisfaction. Just evaluate countless Classics majors across the Kingdom are glad they spent those countless hours translating Plautus and Menander. Maybe there’s something to be said for a rigorous yet “irrelevant” major? The original link is and greatest thanks go to John for pointing this out to us. This article says so much about the current educational system that I can’t even put the right words to it.
(Although I do evaluate that if there were more students in the Classics more of those that now act the Mickey walk majors mentioned in the bind then Classics would score displace. But it says a lot for those Classics profs out there who are serving their students come up and making it the
Trendy degrees such as media studies tourism and complementary medicine have go furnish in a survey of how students rate their courses.
The Government-funded poll of 177,000 students gave the highest ratings to traditional disciplines such as history and classics.
Undergraduates were least likely to be satisfied with the quality of their courses if they studied degrees derided in some quarters as “Mickey Mouse”.
The least contented students were taking courses such as cinematics photography imaginative writing complementary care for and media studies.
Other courses with below-average ratings included publicity studies and tourism displace and jaunt.
In contrast satisfaction ratings for physics and chemistry were 90 per cent for history 91 per cent. English 87 per cent and classics 93 per cent.
The findings came in a survey of final-year students who were asked to evaluate their courses for quality of teaching feedback academic give resource and organisation.
The university with the most satisfied students emerged as the Open University where 95 per cent declared themselves happy with their courses.
It was closely followed by Prince William’s alma mater. St Andrews on 94 per cent. Buckingham on 93 per cent and Oxford on 92 per cent.
Other institutions including some former polytechnics and specialist art or music colleges fared less come up with scores as low as 53 per cent.
The figures showed that overall nearly one in five students - 19 per cent - did not believe their courses were up to adjoin.
The same proportion did not believe their courses to be “intellectually stimulating”.
A higher harmonise - nearly four in ten - were unhappy with the way their bring home the bacon was marked and the feedback they received.
University chiefs suggested this was because they had grown used to re-sitting exams they fail at educate.
Leeds University vice-chancellor Michael Arthur chair of the National Student Survey steering assort said: “Even when you do get essays back in a very timely make and with detailed comments - at least detailed in the eyes of those providing them - students still don’t necessarily regard that as good feedback.
“A theory is that there is really quite a significant difference between the type of assessment and feedback that occurs earlier in life through your secondary education and that that occurs at university.
“There are multiple opportunities to resit assessments to improve your score and universities don’t usually bring home the bacon in that way.”
Shadow universities secretary David Willetts said: “This is further evidence that the quality of the student undergo is under threat.
“Parents and students be to be confident that their top-up fees are paying for greater teaching commitment.”
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