Poor teaching ‘is pushing students to private tutors’

Simon Johnson writing in the Daily Telegraph June 8th about universty students unhappy with the standard of teaching on their courses. We’ve flagged these kind of issues before. University ‘sausage factories’ are churning out an endless line of graduates. ‘Bums on seats’, crammed lecture theatres and poor quality contact time are all indicators that the university sector is effectively an extension of schooling with many of its ills. Ironically the costs of a university experience and the economic crisis are opening up healthly dissent from those having to pay the costs – students and parents.