Student Life

Thought I'd do a quick blog update - I get occasional nags from you readers... (A bizarre thought that people actually read this guff!)

Been on my course for 3 weeks now, and I’d have to say it’s a mixed experience. I’m certainly enjoying studying again and the freedom that being a student brings along with it. The course itself is odd... I’m doing 5 units – two are very practical learning-to-program units that suit me down to the ground and I’m enjoying hugely. One is part practical and part theoretical (not so good!). The other two are very theory driven so far, which is driving me nuts.

The quality of teaching is certainly not good on 4 out of 5 units – I’d say extremely poor on 1 or 2 of them! But I guess I have to take into account that as someone who’s taught people things my whole working life, I have high and possibly unrealistic standards that don’t really fit university lecturers, who after all, have had no teacher training. Overall it’s going OK, though my first assignment is due in a couple of weeks’ time and is an essay on a subject I know nothing about... My experience of essay writing last time I was in education is poor – just something I’m definitely not good at!

I’m still looking for some part time work, and desperately trying to avoid having to go for supply teaching (which would mean joining the GTC etc etc blah blah). Hopefully some Christmas jobs will appear in the papers soon... I do like not working at the moment, but I know I will run out of savings at some point in the summer if I don’t get something more :-)