“University students study for two hours 12 minutes more a week now than they did two years ago, a report suggests today. But the time they spend in lectures and seminars is the same as it was three years ago. The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) quizzed 2,000 undergraduates on their degree workload, the size of their classes and their contact time with lecturers. The think-tank found that on average the students, who were first and second years at universities in England, spent 29 hours per week studying for their degrees, compared to its survey two years ago when a similar cohort of 15,000 students told HEPI they spent 26.8 hours studying per week …” (more)
[Jessica Shepherd, Guardian, 7 May]