I very briefly feared that the number of printed exams wouldn’t suffice 😱 But it turns out German students are reliable when it comes to not showing up for exams phew
And only 1 copy printed in vain! 🌱 #academicchatter
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@tschfflr Oh, really? That's a thing? Then how do they pass the class?
@lipow well… not. It’s a huge problem that Uni students sign up for a lot of classes but don’t finish them, we have a LOT of retakes. In addition, some of our students don’t seem to be aware that they need to officially drop the class in the drop period or they’ll get a proper “fail” on the record 😬
@tschfflr Oh, wow, I did not realize that. Thanks for the insight!
@lipow I have colleagues who think North America style fees would solve this problem. But I’m not sure, since we don’t have the culture of college debt to go with it. As it is, most of our students don’t seem huge amounts of part time work already to finance their studies.
Part of the issue is political: we don’t get funding for students who (study part time and) don’t finish in time
@tschfflr Well, one thing I am sure of: US-style college tuition is a problem, not a solution. The money that is moved in that field hardly benefits the colleges/universities (hence the ballooning of numbers of underpaid adjunct profs) but generates wealth for banks, investors, money managers. It is a huge problem when you start your adult life with enormous debt - and then find there are no jobs that will allow you to pay off those loans and raise a family at the same time. My educated >
@tschfflr > guess is that one of the issues is indeed that even without that tuition higher ed has become quite expensive here AND that students take a long time to figure out how their university works ... in our renters, I have seen quite a few young people now struggle with that, whether they are first sem students or from abroad. On paper (or rather, the intranet 😃 there seems to be guidance, but somehow it is insufficient for them to actually understand the system ...
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