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| University Placement | “I am doing placement for uni so currently I am there full time”
(3) “Because of placement I have to work my days around that… it’s made it a bit difficult but it has benefited me in some ways as well” (3) “I’m currently not working but I’m doing my placement…. I’m currently doing online and working from home” (4) |
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“I like things being visual and not dry and not one person talking.”
(1) “For me it would be more visual probably and hands on as well,especially because I’m a very visual person.” (4) |
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“if you’re doing it online you can also be doing the reading or
something while the teacher is talking to someone else.” (1) “I think the tutorials tend to just end up wasting a lot more time than the more structured in person ones” (2) “made it a bit easier for me that I can hop online and join into the zoom classes where if I couldn’t do that I would miss the whole uni class” (3) |
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| “I like in-classroom kind of learning and like mixed, blended
learning.” (1) “I think I prefer face to face lectures and tutorials”
(2) “Oh absolutely in class. I think everyone prefers that.” (4) |
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| f | “being in a class with people who actually care and who actually are
passionate about it” (1) “makes the transition into the new year or new classes a bit easier, so if I already have someone I know and as I mentioned I don’t have to meet ne friends” (3) |
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The data seen in Table 1 provides insight into the important aspects of the university experience that social science students value the most. From the data, it can be seen that students value good teaching staff, along with flexible learning hours. For example, in their interview students stated that they appreciated when staff were supportive of students and their current circumstances with one student stating “tutors are taking into account what’s going on (4)”. As well as this, students favoured teachers being prepared for tutorials with students stating “if they’re more prepared then you get more out of it and you learn more (4)”. In addition to this, students found flexible learning hours to be beneficial to their studies as it positively impacted their wellbeing and satisfaction. One student stating that it empowers and motivates her to get her work completed. Students also valued how flexible learning hours allowed them to work around their schedule as a number of them were completing university placement.
Table 1. Content Analysis of ‘manifest’ information in ABC News, Sydney Morning Herald, News.com articles, 2016-2018
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The data shown in the above tables explore different forms of sexism that occur in Australian Universities and how they are reported in the
media. According to Table 1, the terms “University/Universities” and “Female/Women” appeared in significant numbers. Following this,
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Kermond, C., 2016. Top unis struggling to combat rape culture. Sydney Morning Herald, Available at:
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