Academic Board decides to stick with 13 teaching weeks in second semester

Management had proposed reducing contact weeks to 12, preceded by “a light introductory and course guidance week.”

DVC E Pip Pattison led the charge for change made the case in an oped in Uni Sydney’s student paper Honi Soit. She wrote that a trial last year showed, “students are able to have an effective learning experience and achieve good academic outcomes over a 12-contact week semester.” (Which is what a university representative told CMM, March 9).

But grass-roots campaigners (CMM April 20) and Academic Board were not convinced, and so semester two will have 13 weeks of classes. A proposal to clip a week also failed last year.