University of Buckingham
This university promotes itself as having a low staff-student ratio. On its website it state that it has a 1 to 10 ratio, whereas the national average is 1 to 17.
It goes on to state that …
This ratio ensures that a high and continuous level of support is maintained, from an academic to a pastoral point of view. It allows a degree of interaction between staff and students rarely found in other universities
It also stressed the importance of small class sizes …
Our student:staff ratio and traditional Oxbridge-style teaching in small groups of around 6 means that teachers and staff will get to know you as an individual. You won’t get lost in a lecture class of 300 students, nor will you be 50th in line for borrowing a particular book from the library.
Full text at http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/standingout/ratio/
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How do the University of Buckingham stats compare with willIseeMytutor’s?
September 17th, 2006 at 10:53 am
The wismt site states this is 1:19. Going to have to investigate this further to check their accuracy.
September 17th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
A general comment on staff-student ratios.
This is by no means a measure of how often a student will see his tutors. In my experience there is vast difference in staff attitudes between new and old universities. Within the new universites, in engineering at any rate, there is an active willingness for staff to see students as required.
Within the old univeraties students are often seen as a hindrance that gets in the way of research, and researchers- rather than tutors- will take tutorials.
I would suggest that the students will see a lot more of their tutors in a new university than on old university, despite higher staff student rations.
January 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm