Responding to Opinion: Fears lecture model broken at SA’s merged uni

Thank you for that article. In a Socratic or semi-Socratic discipline like law, the absence of face-to-face lectures is highly detrimental. The exchange of dialogue to improve understanding of concepts and applications is critical to the development of young lawyers’ thinking.

I’d be very disappointed to see the practice die just to make life easier (for student and lecturer alike), and at the expense of those who are compelled to rely upon our skills in the community. – Ian Robertson-Clark

I am in total agreement and support of Dr Chrisanthi Giotis’ views. With two of my children already at this university, I am appalled at the decision not to continue lectures…I believe our young people are going to be the experimental subjects, and you can’t take it back once the mistake is made and the degree is finished.

And I assume the fees for their degrees will drop dramatically with the disappearance of lectures? Lectures are so much more than the information acquired. I met my closest group of friends at uni lectures, who, over thirty years later,  have supported each other through work and life.

Our relationship with lecturers also helped us find jobs in our chosen areas of interest, and we are still in contact with some of them now. Adelaide University needs to rethink its plan before it’s too late for our current generation of students.

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This generation has already been the guinea pigs to realise the harm social media has caused them, and now they are winding this back, but it is too late for this generation of students, as they are all now over 16. Thank you for this article, and for putting up this significant fight that needs to be won! –Naomi Brill

Spot on. – Mark Coleman

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I write to endorse the comments of Dr Chrisanthi Giotis The thought of uni with no or limited student contact in lectures worries me. Personal interaction within a university is vital. Among other things your fellow students and teachers will challenge, disagree, educate and maybe inspire you.

This doesn’t happen nearly so well at a lonely screen. And what about personal skills that will help you in any workplace.

Uni plays a major role in developing these through shared projects and experience.  There is so much more to university than the acquisition of a set of skills. – Geoff Weaver

Responding to Not just a perimeter fence: Prospect Oval plans ‘next big thing’

Isn’t it refreshing to hear a mayor talk sensibly about the “consultation” process and how it may affect outcomes, but that this, in and of itself, is not the reason to proceed with a plan or not? It is also refreshing to hear about commercial investment returns rather than debt.

We are, as a society, fairly ambivalent about consultations with councils. I suspect that is because we believe that they are ticking a box to satisfy their desire to proceed with a plan, no matter what we say. If I were a Prospect resident, reading this article would make me reconsider that paradigm. – Eric Granger

This is just one side of the story, Larwood’s side.  How about ask the resident group, that is growing fast, about their major concerns. – Nicolle Harris

Responding to Smithson: Baptism of fire for govt’s newest MPs

Clearly, the government is utilising state funds to run its early election campaign with all the advertising of what it is doing and the nothing announcements it is making to get the Premier’s face on TV and in social media each and every day.

It gives the government a very clear advantage over any opposition parties or independents, especially now in the no-donation environment.

Is this truly democracy at work with a level playing field, or is the government riding roughshod to ensure it stays in government? – Graham Tench

Responding to New digs for Adelaide city volleyball in multimillion-dollar plan

The proposed location for the beach volleyball courts in this article has been taken over, fenced, and locked up as a car park and storage area for the construction of the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital, currently scheduled for completion in 2031.

It is curious that this didn’t come up in the Adelaide City Council discussion of the proposal, and I wonder if the volleyball folk are aware that, should their proposal be approved and funded, it is likely that nothing will happen toward their project until after that.

Indeed, I wonder if the Adelaide City Council councillors weren’t fully briefed on the site’s current usage and tenure. Or maybe they forgot. – L Noack

Responding to You decide: Where is SA’s best live music venue?

Best SA live music is Murray Delta Juke Joint at Goolwa by far!! – Sandra Sierke