It’s very easy to get accepted, it’s very hard to survuve the five official years the degree takes, which become eight on average. The dropout rate is fifty percent in the first two years, and thirty percent of what’s left after that.
so you have to do most of the work by yourself with pen, paper and textbook anyway.
What’s the point of making us go to a building, then?
you could just as well have the students watch lecture videos off YouTube.
And if the videos were well done, it would be a net improvement.
lots of tutoring with a single tutor working with just one or two students and working on whatever stuff they needed to be doing.
What’s the point of making us go to a building, then?
As far as my experience went, there isn’t much of a one. Thankfully the Finnish university I went to was also very flexible on letting you do most of the courses by just showing up for an exam and doing well on that, no need to attend classes if you don’t like them.
That’s only for postgrads, though, right?
Found it. It’s Cambridge (and he mentions that Oxford has a similar system), and it does seem to be specifically for undergraduates.
A lot of places will start letting you talk with a competent human once you go postgrad, but undergrad students going from high school math to university math are the ones who would probably most need that.
Yes, both Oxford and Cambridge use the tutorial system. Undergraduates get lectures, classes and tutorials (or supervisions in Cambridge), where the latter would be one lecturer/professor to one to three students.
It’s very easy to get accepted, it’s very hard to survuve the five official years the degree takes, which become eight on average. The dropout rate is fifty percent in the first two years, and thirty percent of what’s left after that.
What’s the point of making us go to a building, then?
And if the videos were well done, it would be a net improvement.
That’s only for postgrads, though, right?
It’s for undergrads across all subjects. See tutorial system.
Oh. We have those too. In name only. They usually ignore you, or make it clear to you that they are not interested in helping.
As far as my experience went, there isn’t much of a one. Thankfully the Finnish university I went to was also very flexible on letting you do most of the courses by just showing up for an exam and doing well on that, no need to attend classes if you don’t like them.
Found it. It’s Cambridge (and he mentions that Oxford has a similar system), and it does seem to be specifically for undergraduates.
A lot of places will start letting you talk with a competent human once you go postgrad, but undergrad students going from high school math to university math are the ones who would probably most need that.
Yes, both Oxford and Cambridge use the tutorial system. Undergraduates get lectures, classes and tutorials (or supervisions in Cambridge), where the latter would be one lecturer/professor to one to three students.