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Adelaide University Stuns Students with Shocking Decision to Axe Lectures in English
[ Adelaide, Australia – March 10, 2023 ] – In a move that has left students and faculty alike reeling, Adelaide University has announced that it will be axing lectures in English, effective immediately. The decision has sent shockwaves throughout the academic community, with many questioning the reasoning behind the sudden and drastic change.
According to sources, the university’s administration cited a desire to "promote diversity and inclusivity" as the reason for the decision. However, many students and faculty members have expressed outrage and frustration at the move, arguing that it will severely limit their ability to access quality education.
"I’m completely blown away by this decision," said Sarah Johnson, a junior majoring in English literature. "I came to Adelaide University because of its reputation for academic excellence, and now they’re just cutting off the very language I’m trying to learn?"
The university has promised to provide alternative language instruction options, but many students are skeptical about the quality and availability of these alternatives. "What’s the point of having a university if you can’t even offer classes in the most widely spoken language in the world?" asked John Smith, a senior majoring in business.
The decision has also sparked concerns about the university’s commitment to its international students, many of whom may struggle to access language instruction in their native languages.
Adelaide University’s decision to axe lectures in English is a clear blow to its reputation as a top-tier institution. With this move, the university is effectively cutting off access to a significant portion of its student body, many of whom will be forced to seek alternative educational options.
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What are students actually paying for then?
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https://www.indaily.com.au/news/2024/09/12/adelaide-university-says-goodbye-to-face-to-face-lectures
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LOL what the actual fuck
Yeah it’s never been about the quality of education
Whaaaaat that is so weird.
An important nuance here is LECTURES and TUTORIALS are not the same.
Lectures are largely about informing students of key concepts and often delivered in a one way manner, where tutorials are significantly smaller (<20 ) and require/allow for class interaction.
The current ethos is ‘scenario based learning’, so in room learning will still occur.
I feel bad for the lecturers who really thrive on the face to face interaction, but then I felt bad for them already. Any lecture I attended in the past couple years had maximum 10 students in it, usually more like 3-5. Doing online lectures at your own pace is just the superior option
And then make them all part time, so you’re not entitled to government help, as you’re not a full time student.
AU-tube
Enshittification
Most students I speak to these days don’t go to lectures anyway, so it makes sense to move them online
This has been the case with my course (business) at UniSA since COVID. All our lectures are online, with one/two face to face tutorials per class weekly.
As usual, only one comment here with any sense, the rest are all feelings with no thoughts attached.
There will be face to face learning! Almost nobody attends lectures anyway, 80% of students consume them digitally anyway, so it may as well be embraced as the norm and codified.
Seminars and tutorials will still exist!
“Rich asynchronous digital activities”
eg. cost cutting in education.
And ‘asynchronous’ means they won’t be live lectures, or whatever the ‘digital activities’ are, but recorded or programmed.
That’s how it is in UNISA, lectures are online and tutorials, workshops and practicals are in person
That’s garbage. Glad I did mine years ago
That’s garbage. Glad I did mine years ago
Didn’t go to Adelaide Uni, but did go to Uni elsewhere.
Lectures should be online unless there’s a compelling reason for them not to be.
Tutorials should be in person unless there’s no reason for them to be.
My course had a mix of in person and online depending on the unit. For the lectures, all but two were online. One of them you’d just turn up and they’d read to you. Informative, but there was nothing I gained from it being in person compared to online and the lecture was recorded anyway, so you could watch it again online regardless, the only reason people turned up was because it had an attendance grade attached to it.
The other in person lecture, the lecturer would start by getting us to share a piece of information about the subject that we had read about that week, and then they would expand their views on the matter, before they went into the lecture itself, which also featured the lecturer asking questions to us during it. Finally near the end they would give the passcode for the weekly quiz, but only after stopping the recording. So you could still go back and watch, but you actually had to be at the lecture to get the passcode to do the mini assignment for the week.
Focusing on a shift to increased profits
Well fuck.
I hate this, I loved going to lectures and as someone with adhd I needed that on site time to learn. Yes recorded lectures were usefull but I never got the same out of them. I can see them using the same recording for years on end until the program changes, its slack and cheap.
I hope no one is badly affected by this, but I know the uni isn’t run in mind for its students, no no.
Wouldn’t this be against discrimination laws.
Some people with disabilities need face to face learning.
FK might as well just ditch uni’s altogether.
I loved having lectures online. Most of the time I could play them at 1.5x or 2x and not lose anything. Also, the mandatory 10 minutes of paper shuffling and reminders about exams etc.
I had one great lecturer that I enjoyed attending lectures for, but most of mine (over two degrees) were pretty boring. Tutes were more interesting.
I still can’t get over how bad that logo is. It looks like one of those scam universities set up to get international “students” into the country.
I feel like recorded lectures are behind the times now too. It should be interactive mixed mode online teaching like brilliant.org or many other online first learning experiences. Lots of Professors in the USA make YouTube videos that are not just recorded lectures but are deep dive videos topic by topic into a subject. This is much better imho. I only ever watched the lectures online to get all the hints of what will be in the exam etc. Then all YouTube / internet content.
People here have suggested that uni isn’t about teaching students and I wanted to give an anecdote about this. We were in a physics lecture in engineering and the lecturer had very very broken English. It was so broken they were literally playing charades with the lecturer to guess each word. When people complained about it to the dean they were told that he was one of the best in the world in his field and that his funding required him to do a certain amount of teaching to maintain the funding/position. We basically got told he was more important then all the students In the class as his patents will likely bring in tens of millions of dollars and that they would just make sure that they had the usual bell curve so don’t worry about it. Between this incident and a few others it became blatantly obvious that they(the administration) only cared about research etc and the students were just a means to an end.
Dude I didn’t even go to lectures in the 2000s. Attendance was only recorded at tutorials and labs anyway.
Way to cut lecturer salary costs. Online lectures can never be as current and responsive as in person lectures.
Pretty much no one goes to them anymore it’s fine
Horrible decisions one after another
I still maintain that the only thing worse than the idea of this merger is the management of its execution.
I listen to every one of my lectures from home, as most people do. This just makes sense.