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When Sara started university, she was delighted to see she had just eight hours of contact time with her lecturers. “After putting in full days at school for God knows how many years, it felt great to have that freedom,” she says.
But by the end of her first year of her politics degree, she was feeling disillusioned. “None of my lecturers knew my name, I got very little feedback on my work and felt as if I had been left to fend for myself. I’d sit down in front of the reading I had to do and some of the concepts were so difficult … I found it overwhelming and disheartening.”
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