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Week 3 and the 1st years are asking if they have to come to lectures, they’d rather watch the recordings

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CameForAVacationStayedForTheRevolution · 11/10/2025 15:21

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OMG, and during lock down students (and the majority of parents on MN) complained about online lectures and poor value for money due to lack of face to face on campus lectures. Lots of complaints after lockdown when it was a bit of a hybrid model for a year.

And now here we are with some students saying they’d rather not drive into town for lectures when they could watch them from home. Bearing in mind on our course our β€œlectures” are more of a lecture/seminar hybrid as it’s a small cohort so it’s not death by PowerPoint. There are group activities, etc, interactive stuff, quizes, etc. Trying to explain to them that discussion occurs at a better level when people are actually there in person as well! People are more likely to ask questions when not online.

Honestly, I’m baffled sometimes! I get it would save money in petrol and parking as well as less time if you don’t have to commute in but I never press ganged anyone to sign up for the course!

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wisbech · 14/10/2025 11:26

TryingToFigureItOut2 · 14/10/2025 08:35

@CameForAVacationStayedForTheRevolution Going straight to a job is what he would like to do. Might it be possible for you to tell me what he did to get there? The city we live in is absolutely stacked with coding jobs, so I think this is a real possibility for DS.

He's very keen to do A level computer science and is bracing himself of A level maths.

We don't have a local university that he could commute to, which is a definite problem. I mean we have one but not the sort that is easy to get into. I commuted to university and it was much easier.

He should check out "leetcode" - a site & courses designed for coders to practice the tests that "FAANG" companies use to hire programmers

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