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First Year At University
Approximately 17% of Australian secondary school students continue to either universities or colleges for tertiary studies. Now they have to meet very different demands. Tertiary students are expected to act and work more independently:
- In making decisions about their courses, their study and use of time,
- In making use of the resources and facilities of the institution
- In developing their own ideas and capacity to make judgements.
The change is probably more obvious in Humanities course than Science, and at university than at college, but all tertiary study quires greater self-reliance.
Let us look more closely at some of these changes which first year student, will probably have to make.
1 General independence and self-reliance
New students can find the apparent freedom of tertiary believe it. Listen to these first-year students talking about .;. the problems they had while settling in to university life.
Chris (a Humanities
student): I couldn't believe it when Ifirst got only twelve hours
of classes a week (at school I ha,: twice that). Twelve hours -
and that's total. The rest of
Was mine, I could do what I wanted. It was suddenly like being let out Australian secondary school
the teacher's problem
apparently casual nature
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