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[kirstin hunter]

science/arts in history
I guess it's kinda a related discipline

 

[phrred]

what makes UNSW teaching so poor compared to Syd Uni teaching?
And it recent years why has the popularity of USYD (esp with the white population) grown so much whilst UNSW diminished

 

[redslert]

what makes UNSW teaching so poor compared to Syd Uni teaching?

Where did you get that idea from?

And it recent years why has the popularity of USYD (esp with the white population) grown so much whilst UNSW diminished

Where are your statistics?

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Where are your statistics?

*Raises hand* - come on transfer!

 

[ohne]

I thought you were a medicine student for some reason.

 

[kirstin hunter]

I was - I did three years which was the science part. Med wasn't for me though and I transferred to law this year.

 

[kirstin hunter]

what makes UNSW teaching so poor compared to Syd Uni teaching?
And it recent years why has the popularity of USYD (esp with the white population) grown so much whilst UNSW diminished

I don't know about the second part, but the teaching rankings I was referring to were published in (I think) The Australian last year. It forms part of the graduate assessment - when you graduate you fill in a survey asking all these questions about your course and stuff like that. They also consider a whole lot of other information and come up with rankings based on teaching, graduate employment, and anything else that they think is worth comparing.

For one of the "group of eight" UNSW doesn't rate so well. That's not to say that the quality of the teaching is less, necessarily, but that students don't rate it as highly, which (as I said above) can be influenced by a whole number of factors.

 

[elfm]

most (if not all) of my teachers are shit so i'd say those rankings are fairly accurate

 

[phrred]

Where did you get that idea from?

Where are your statistics?

The article Kirstin is referring too, i saw it too

Fall of UNSW courses in terms of UAI (demand) relative to Syd

 

[elfm]

The article Kirstin is referring too, i saw it too

Fall of UNSW courses in terms of UAI (demand) relative to Syd

that means nothing. unsw simply supplies more spots than sydney does with a lot of its courses.

 

[phrred]

are you sure?
they also have about 5000 more students (but also a couple more faculties)

 

[elfm]

for engineering this is definitely the case since our engineering faculty is the biggest in the southern hemisphere AFAIK so i'm assuming other faculties also offer a lot of positions compared to other unis

either way, we're not talking about the number of students here. we're talking about the number of positions offered, which greatly affects uais for courses such as engineering since they offer heaps more places than usyd does

 

[phrred]

but cutoffs a lower for commerce, economics, arts, science as well-- virtually everything

 

[elfm]

yea but who cares about those faculties

im just happy that engineering is atleast 85 now

 

[babydoll_]

OK Michael Pratt won, but thanks for the support anyway guy ~_~

 

[elfm]

yea sorry about that... i forgot to hand in the envelope.

 

[§eraphim]

but cutoffs a lower for commerce, economics, arts, science as well-- virtually everything

There are more places as the uni needs more money.

 

[Curry]

Thank god for the international students and their sweet, sweet Hong Kong dollars they pour into UNSW. It means we can build cool things like the Star Wars cum Law building.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Bah, once this law building is finished (and the analytical center), they need to start putting more money into research. I say, the university has now fulfilled John Niland's dream of a modern looking campus fully, it's now time to get more mentions in the Sydney Morning Herald. There are far too many articles that mention all this garbage that the University of Sydney does, why can't that be UNSW? That's my view. More research $$$ = more publicity = higher prestige = more funding = more places = higher funding = more research = $$$ = higher prestige = more etc. etc. etc.