On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 02:18:10 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

And that's very good when student numbers are high, as the
lecturers can
put the postgrad students in charge of some of the tutorials.

They'd better bloody not, i tell you!

Why not?

I've got enough on my plate without having to teach undergrads as well!

Do all the lecturers run all the tutorials and practicals themselve in
your part of the world?

No - you're quite right that grad students are an important part of the
teaching force. Which is fine, as long as none of those grad students are
me.

Problem is, in my experience, the quality of teaching by PhD students is
far inferior to that by lecturers. In my students union days, the number
of complaints about the former was far, far higher than the latter.