Useless degrees

i guess so, i'm not overly sure what my point is either. i'm pretty sure i could have done all the required reading of my course and stuffed it into two years. shit would have been tough and i wouldn't have had two days off a week and endless hours to dick about in. perhaps i think there should be more contact time, more written work and more reasons for students to do the work. maybe i'm just annoyed that it didn't work out for me?

So there wasn't enough reading to make it in to a challenging course, but too much for you actually do? But if you had done it, it wouldn't have been enough? :p

Sorry you had a shit time, honest. I agree there should be more contact time. A few universities, in my subject at least, run a tutorial system, which is by far the best way to teach, I think. But they are fairly rare due to the high teaching demands they put on academics. Which comes back to underfunding & cetera…