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Barmymoo:
We don't have office hours, I'm not really sure what those are. They cover some things, so taking notes on those is useful. Also they often mention things that would be useful to look up later, so I need to have a better system of noting those down (last year I often wrote down "look at this thing" but it would get lost in the general mass of my notes which covered the whole page without much of a system). There are 65 people in my cohort and I think I'm in a minority in terms of learning style - I learn far, far better alone, out of a book/from a computer than I do by listening to a lecture or talking in a group - so they aren't likely to change the teaching style for me. I did talk to my personal tutor about it and she suggested taking a textbook with me so I had something to look at which was related to the topic, but I found that I stopped listening to the lecture if I did that/
Method of Madness:
On this side of the pond, professors have office hours which are the times where they are in the office and can be seen without an appointment (assuming they're not seeing someone else, of course) for questions and additional help. I'm surprised you don't have that.
Loki:
On this other side of the pond, most professors (if they can afford it) have assistants which fulfill those duties.
Method of Madness:
Yeah, professors have TAs who help grade papers and do that for big classes, but that doesn't mean they don't ever talk to the students directly during office hours.
Also wait, "if they can afford it"? Professors have to pay for their own TAs? Wouldn't the TAs also be employees of the university? (Over here they're usually grad students who work for free tuition plus a small stipend)
Loki:
Now that you ask, I am not too sure. I do, however, think that the chairs have a certain budget (which is approved by some commissions) which is where they pay their TAs from. Legally speaking, the universities are institutions of the state (like public schools) and the employers of the TAs. So in a sense, TAs work for the state.
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