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A new study has concluded that British students are the least hard working in Europe.
London, Sept.25 : A new study has concluded that British students are the least hard working in Europe.
According to the study, British students spend only 26 hours per week on a course lasting three years.
Some students put in as little as 20 hours of work each week, the study adds.
According to the survey, the highest workload was borne by veterinary students, who work on average for 37 hours a week. Similar hours were required from those studying medicine and dentistry. Physics, maths, engineering and law all demand an average of more than 26 hours a week.
Europe's hardest-working students are in Portugal, where they put in an average 41-hour week.The report from the Higher Education Policy Institute, a respected academic think-tank, warned that the undemanding nature of courses threatens to damage the standing of English universities.
According to The Daily Mail, they are being subsidised to provide full-time education to students who were really studying only part-time.
The findings, taken from a survey of 15,000 students, also raises questions over the value that they and their families are getting for top-up tuition fees of 3,000 pounds a year.
One in five British students at English universities now feels he or she is getting poor value for money, a third up on last year.
A similar survey for the Institute last year suggested that students at some new universities can study for only 20 hours a week but still gain a first or upper-second class degree.
According to latest HEPI report: "There is real reason to doubt whether English degrees will be perceived as being of equivalent value to degrees from countries where the requirements on students are more onerous. These are potentially very serious findings."
A spokesman for Universities UK, which speaks for university vice-chancellors, however, said: "We would caution against any sweeping conclusions based on the survey's limited sample size.
ANI
