The School of Biosciences Student Staff Committee had a short breakout session to join in with the Big Conversation. There were 14 students from all four undergraduate years in Biosciences.
This is what our student reps said:
In 10 years time
- We will still have face-to-face lectures
- We will still learn from active researchers and students will gain experience in research as part of their course
- Lectures will be highly interactive in order to engage students
- Lectures will make use of technology
- There will be more involvement from industry and students will be able to visit employers
- Students in the future will need post graduate qualifications because of “degree inflation”
- Students will want campus based courses because:
- You develop life skills by moving away from home- you’d lose that with an online course.
- It’s good to be around others your same age from different cultures and backgrounds (internationalisation)
- Campus-based learning broadens your horizons, for example where you’ll work/settle.
- Campus learning provides more structure to learning.
- Employability/ life skills will be a compulsory course component
- People skills will be really important to combat the increase in technology
- Increased costs will mean there will be smaller numbers of students going to University- it will only be students who NEED a degree for their chosen profession.
- Students will be able to gain a specific qualification showing that they have lab skills and experience