University Staff Shortage
Sir, —Is It really essential that, each academic year, a lecturer should personally read to his class lecture notes probably prepared several years previously? University lectures belong to the era before the introduction of the printing press. When books were hand-written and few, lectures were a means of disseminating knowledge. Today, students have their own text-books as well as libraries. Britain, once our main source of staff, suddenly awakened to the urgent need for vastly increased numbers of graduates, is opening new universities. But because of the centuries-old system of restricting graduates, there are few academics to staff the new colleges. Fewer still are available for the Commonwealth. Why don’t we use closed-circuit television in place of lecturers? The films could be run for any number of classes. Available staff could be used for tutorials to discuss the filmed lectures, essay and exercise marking, anti administrative work.—Yours, etc.,
INTERESTED. April 13, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30725, 14 April 1965, Page 16
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University Staff Shortage
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30725, 14 April 1965, Page 16
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