I’m going to present you the educational system in Scotland and more precisely the proceedings of the courses in Abertay University, which is somewhat different from France.
First of all, the price of the school is in accordance with the number of courses we choose. Each module is equivalent to 20 ECTS, so the EU students have to take 3 modules per semester to have 60 ECTS. And the price for 3 modules is £910, which is really more expensive than in France.
The organisation of the modules in Scotland is really different from the French one. The main difference is the number of hours of classes. We have just 9 hours in class per week!! So we really have some time to revise our courses that it’s important because we need more time to revise than Scottish students because our courses are not in our native language and their methods are different from France. But we also have time to go to sport, to go out with other students and to visit the country, which it’s also important to fit in with other students and to discover the country.
We have few hours in class because in UK they take into account the independent work, and we have to work outside class hours a lot! We can see an example of the distribution of the working hours for one module below. And to revise teachers incite students to buy the book they use and most of them buy it.
Each modules are divided in lectures and in tutorials as in France. Most modules are divided in 3 hours: 2 hours of lecture and 1 hour of tutorial, or 1 hour of lecture and 2 hours of tutorial. But it can be more.
– Lectures are with the whole class. Teachers use slides a lot and everything they say are in slides. Then they send us the slides so we can listen explanations of the teachers and we can understand better the courses. – Tutorials are in groups. They are devoted to exercises about the last course.
We do some exercises in tutorials that the teacher corrects in class. But we have to do the rest of the exercises at home and the teacher sends us the correction. We can ask the teacher the next tutorial if we didn’t understand something.
Blackboard
Each students and teachers can access the blackboard via the website of Abertay University with a login and a password. In the blackboard we can find all the documents that the teachers send us: slides, tutorial questions and answers, and other useful documents.
