It may well be the fact that my new local secondary school has got a better ratio of teaching staff to students than does my local new university. I wonder how many students actually realise this?

This is principally because UK universities have seen big increases in productivity from staff, over the past 10 years full time staff totals have fallen from 111,000 to 107,000 when at the same time annual numbers of graduates climbed from 286,000 to 444,000, an increase of almost 50%! Resulting staff student ratios soared from 1:9 up to 1:20/1:25 (depending on who you read) all of which puts some new universities behind some secondary schools in the all important teachers to students stakes.

Pretty impressive eh? But what gets me is why does nobody start complaining … any students out there care to comment … or is everything really totally fine down there on campus?

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