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This page contains various resources and links related to university teaching, learning and research. As a teacher at two universities in the UK, I am interested in pedagogic issues. Additionally, as a recent undergraduate and postgraduate student with heavy loan debts, I am concerned about the ongoing impact of ever-higher tuition fees both on the nature of universities and on their accessibility to students.

Tuition Fee and Contact Hours Calculator

A user-friendly spreadsheet to allow students to work out what proportion of their university tuition fees are spent on "contact hours" i.e. direct teaching time in lectures and seminars. A long accompanying article explains the limitations of using contact hours as the measure of the efficiency with which tuition fees are spent on Higher Education. However, it also carries out case studies of contact hours and tuition fee costs in various subjects, and considers how this might inform the future push towards higher tuition fees.

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This page was published on December 16, 2009 | Keywords: university, academia, teaching, learning | Save this Print this RSS Feed

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