Students at the University of Manchester have launched a petition calling on lecturers to move back to the lecture halls, rather than staying online next year.
Vice-Chancellor April McMahon told the student paper ‘The Tab’ that moving forward the university would be moving to a blended learning approach, with a mix of face-to-face and online teaching.
More than 5,000 students, and counting, have signed a petition calling for a return to in-person lecturers. If this does not happen then students want to see a reduction in their fees.
The petition was launched by Emily Bennet, who said: “UoM “UoM has decided that blended learning should continue in the long term with only ‘interactive’ content being delivered in person.
“Students are obviously unhappy with the decision as we don’t feel like we were adequately consulted on the matter, and particularly for humanities subjects, this change would result in drastically lower contact hours per week as non-interactive lectures make up the majority of the content in many degree programs.”
