Students 'see no rise in lectures' despite fee hike

A tripling in the cost of a degree under Labour has made almost no difference to the number of lectures and tutorials undergraduates receive, writes Graeme Paton for The Telegraph. New figures show that students reported an average of less than 14 hours of timetabled tuition each week this year – up by just 12 minutes compared with 2006 when fees soared three-fold.

Teaching time was actually down on 2007. In all subjects, students made up the shortfall with more private study, although English undergraduates still make “less effort” than their peers in other European countries, it was claimed.

It also emerged that students at former polytechnics did less overall work – including attendance at lectures and seminars – than undergraduates at traditional universities.

This comes despite a sharp rise in the number of first-class honours degrees awarded by universities in recent years.
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