Comments on: History department should acknowledge its faults http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/18/history-department-should-acknowledge-its-faults/ Award-winning University of York Student Newspaper Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:59:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: sympathiser http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/18/history-department-should-acknowledge-its-faults/#comment-51597 sympathiser Mon, 19 May 2008 01:53:54 +0000 http://www.nouse.co.uk/2008/05/18/history-department-should-acknowledge-its-faults/#comment-51597 In physics, when choosing final year projects, each in a year group of 60 BSc or 40 MPhys students selects their top 6 choices in order of preference from about 60-70 offered projects. Then the module allocator guy plugs all these choices into a computer program (that the guy probably wrote himself) which then spews out the project allocations. Perhaps a little swapping of software between depts is all that is required here... but I guess that would require the history dept to get off its arse for students... which (my housemates reliably inform me) is usually cant be bothered to do. artyfarty humanities academics - they're not really problem solvers are they. In physics, when choosing final year projects, each in a year group of 60 BSc or 40 MPhys students selects their top 6 choices in order of preference from about 60-70 offered projects. Then the module allocator guy plugs all these choices into a computer program (that the guy probably wrote himself) which then spews out the project allocations.

Perhaps a little swapping of software between depts is all that is required here… but I guess that would require the history dept to get off its arse for students… which (my housemates reliably inform me) is usually cant be bothered to do. artyfarty humanities academics - they’re not really problem solvers are they.

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