Lectures

With the UCU having announced a three day strike this December, and plans for more next semester, third year student Alice Nott explains why she supports the lecturers' striking....

The University and College Union has announced eight days of strike over working conditions, pay and pensions. Staff from 60 universities, including some of the largest and most prestigious in the country, are to set walk out on the 25th of November until the 4th of December. Amongst the...

If you walk into any lecture theatre across the university campus, you will be confronted by a diverse group of people. Some will be furiously typing away on their laptops, others will be checking their Twitter sneakily under the bench and a few may even be having a quick...

The University of Nottingham has agreed to a roadmap for the expansion of using lecture capture technology in its teaching.  After the University’s Teaching and Learning Board agreed that it wanted to encourage teaching staff to make more use of Lecture Capture, the UoN has set out plans to...

Following the success of our pilot Challenges article in issue #245, our brand-new contributor Caspar Barnes let his vengeful housemates dress him for the day. It can’t have been that bad, right? Well… I persistently, and sometimes brutally, tease one of my housemates fashion sense. So the idea of letting...

University without lectures is like a gin and tonic without ice – the content is the same, but it’s served disconcertingly differently. It is what many think of as the basis of a degree (lectures, not gin). Before we flock to university in first year, we fantasise about lectures...

With more students applying for a degree now than ever before, the prestige of a degree doesn’t really carry the employable advantage it used to in the good old days. With this in mind, Impact set out to investigate which is more important to students: the actual degree, or...