- Thu Dec 17, 2009 10:11 am
#403423
an average course consists of 3 modules every term, for 9 terms.
each of these modules is marked through either coursework, or an exam.
this is 27 forms of standard marking - and even if holiday was completely discarded, then that would lead to a deadline (whether it be coursework or revision) every 2 weeks, for a module which takes a minimum of 20 hours of pure lecturing - and another 10 hours of tutorial time to ensure that the lecture was understood, [it's checked by assessing smaller examples of their work based on each 2 hour lecture]
this would lead to a 5 day week, with a lecture on a different portion of the module every day at 9am-11am, an hours break and then a tutorial on the previous day's module at 12pm-1pm. Then between 1pm and 5pm, completing the tutorial work for the lecture had that morning, and also working on the coursework due within the next fortnight.
so much information would be wasted by trying to compress that much learning into a short period of time that many of the modules be failed, but the lecturers would also find it very difficult to mark in the region of a hundred papers in the space of 2 weeks, every week of the year.
oh, they would get 10 days holiday though...although some holiday would have to be cut out due to the 6 mandatory weekday bank holidays, and the 2 which could fall on weekends (christmas and boxing day) leaving them with a maximum of 4 days of holiday, and a minimum of 2.
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