Expectations
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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‘I think now that we’re paying so much, sometimes I find myself thinking am I getting what I’m paying for, and then I think to myself... we’re in three days a week and then two days a week after Christmas I’m paying £9,000 just for this year, is it worth it?’
[First year, Female, Social Work, Teaching‐intensive institution]
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‘I think it’s now a sort of consumer sort of thing, like I’m paying for this so I must get this in return. At the beginning, I felt myself thinking like that, but then it takes... the whole idea of learning, it takes that away so you have to try not to think about it like that.’
[Second year, Female, Social Work, Teaching‐intensive institution]
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‘My course, which is Media and Cultural Studies, it’s really enjoyable...there’s less contact hours in it, but then it’s really good for people who don’t know what direction to go into from media so they let you experiment more with like TV and film and feature writing and stuff like that.’
[First year, Female, Media and Cultural Studies, Specialist institution]
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‘People aren't just looking for your grades any more, they're looking for the experience and anything else, because a lot of people now are getting 2:1s and firsts in their degrees, so people are looking for other things to show they stand out rather than just your degree.’
[Second year, Female, Law, Regionally‐focused institution]
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‘I kind of thought they’d[lectures] be like TED talks, like that they would always be really inspirational, and that, like, each lecture would just be an amazing experience and you’d come out and be, like, whoah, and want to change your life. But then now it’s like, you go in and you get a lot of knowledge, but it’s not that inspirational.’
[First year, Female, English Literature, Research‐intensive institution]
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‘I was not prepared for uni, let’s say in terms of how to actually learn...that was a massive, massive shock to me in terms of, you know, how to proactively go to the library and get all this information...I think I was maybe hoping for some more guidance in the first year maybe just so you kind of knew what you were doing was okay.’
[Second year, Male, International Politics, Research‐intensive institution]
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