Comments on: Teaching 4 hours a week http://jamesmcinerney.ie/2010/02/02/teaching-4-hours-a-week/ A blog about, well, science, society and stuff... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland « Irishscience http://jamesmcinerney.ie/2010/02/02/teaching-4-hours-a-week/#comment-11620 Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland « Irishscience Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:38:02 +0000 http://jamesmcinerney.ie/2010/02/02/teaching-4-hours-a-week/#comment-11620 [...] Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland By Shane O'Mara More on the four hour work week story, via Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland. “… It is not clear why this figure came out from Bat O’Keeffe’s mouth, but it smacks of a ’softening up’ of the third level sector in an effort to reduce funding even more than before. In my department, we have a total of 15 permanent academic staff right now and 14 who have a full teaching load. We are dealing with about 750 students. It is relatively easy to do the maths and see that this is really not a good way to try to teach …” (more) [...] […] Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland By Shane O’Mara More on the four hour work week story, via Teaching 4 hours a week « Ninth Level Ireland. “… It is not clear why this figure came out from Bat O’Keeffe’s mouth, but it smacks of a ’softening up’ of the third level sector in an effort to reduce funding even more than before. In my department, we have a total of 15 permanent academic staff right now and 14 who have a full teaching load. We are dealing with about 750 students. It is relatively easy to do the maths and see that this is really not a good way to try to teach …” (more) […]

]]> By: How long is an hour? « Stochastic Geometry http://jamesmcinerney.ie/2010/02/02/teaching-4-hours-a-week/#comment-11619 How long is an hour? « Stochastic Geometry Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:37:49 +0000 http://jamesmcinerney.ie/2010/02/02/teaching-4-hours-a-week/#comment-11619 [...] academics are worried about this. I’m not. I think this is a great thing. I think it’s wonderful. Because [...] […] academics are worried about this. I’m not. I think this is a great thing. I think it’s wonderful. Because […]

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