The University Experience: An Australian StudyWhat is the university to the 'normal' student? Is it an ivory tower, a community of scholars, the place of a liberal education? The original research incorporated in this book challenges many of the comfortable myths about tertiary education. Dr. Little conducted exhaustive interviews with 120 third-year students. He asked them why they came to university, what their parents' attitude was, whether they had non-university friends, what they expected of their lectures, whether they enjoyed their studies. Here, in their own words, are the answers. Three academic years have surprisingly little effect on the average student. He is not involved with radical or conservative student fringes. His family and friends have more impact than the academic staff. He has little informal or personal contact with his lectures and rarely wants more. He spends little time in extra-curricular activities at the university and seldom works beyond the syllabus. The university remains a static backdrop to a personal development which is a different kind for humanities and science students. This is a constructive and disturbing book. |
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Page 113
... cent of Science students ; and 68 per cent of Arts , but only 60 per cent of Science students , are in the first row where friends are newer . Science students ' friends thus tend to be both less often university friends and less ...
... cent of Science students ; and 68 per cent of Arts , but only 60 per cent of Science students , are in the first row where friends are newer . Science students ' friends thus tend to be both less often university friends and less ...
Page 208
... cent of total university enrolments in 1958 to 8.38 per cent in 1966. Australian Universities Commission Third Report , Australian Uni- versities , 1964-1969 , Table 23 , p . 38 . 4 ' Minimum time ' graduation rates for students ...
... cent of total university enrolments in 1958 to 8.38 per cent in 1966. Australian Universities Commission Third Report , Australian Uni- versities , 1964-1969 , Table 23 , p . 38 . 4 ' Minimum time ' graduation rates for students ...
Page 209
... cent in 1956 to 25 per cent in 1966 : Fitzgerald ( 1967 ) , graph 5 , p . 7 ; Table 7 , p . 9. This has been especially marked in the government school system whose intake of children from lower socio- economic groups is greater than ...
... cent in 1956 to 25 per cent in 1966 : Fitzgerald ( 1967 ) , graph 5 , p . 7 ; Table 7 , p . 9. This has been especially marked in the government school system whose intake of children from lower socio- economic groups is greater than ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Approach to the University | 12 |
The Academic Experience | 37 |
Copyright | |
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