Varsity Issue
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER SINCE 1947 ISSUE NO. th 767 FRIDAY 8 MARCH 2013 EV1122, DAVIDSIMMONS, TULANE PUBLIC RELATIONS TULANE PUBLIC EV1122, DAVIDSIMMONS, ZABETHEASTCOBBER, TYTUP, LENSCAPBOB, TRINITY.CAM.AC.UK, INKL TRINITY.CAM.AC.UK, LENSCAPBOB, TYTUP, ZABETHEASTCOBBER, MindO CREDITS, CLOCKWISE FROM ind the supervisionsuper gap PHOTO CREDITS, CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: 303STAINLESSSTEEL, ELI 303STAINLESSSTEEL, LEFT: TOP CREDITS, CLOCKWISE FROM PHOTO • Varsity investigations reveal major disparities in college provisions for undergraduates • There are significant differences between colleges in the number of contact hours, experience of supervisors, course resources and funding for extracurricular societies peers studying elsewhere - despite inequalities in supervision provision. rst years with 53, 55 and 59 hours of supervision time, while their Trin- paying the same tuition fees. e dif- For rst year economics students the respectively. ity counterparts received 43. ose at ferences are particularly pronounced supervision gap can be as much as One King’s College history student Homerton had 38 and at Roinson only for rst year students beginning their 71 hours, with the average Newnham told Varsity that they knew “other col- 33. Cambridge educations. College student receiving 115 hours leges have more classes organised e supervision gap for second year e data covers supervisions, col- over the year, but only 43 hours if they internally by directors of studies”, mathematicians was up to 33 hours, lege classes and college seminars from attended Sidney Sussex last year. First giving one explanation for the wide with Lucy Cavendish College o ering byPHELIM BRADY the last academic year. years at Gonville & Caius and Trin- variation. 62 hours of college contact time com- Deputy News Editor The figures, released under the ity College saw supervisors for 89 and e gap between the college pro- pared with just 28 hours at Homerton Freedom of Information Act, also 66 hours respectively, while those at viding the most and the least hours of and 30 at Magdalene.
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