Velida Pudic
There is a disgruntled atmosphere amongst Manchester University Law Students. In an
undergraduate law lecture on Friday the 20th of March, an academic member of staff hinted
that the law school was proposing to cut lectures from 30 to 20 per module. Exactly a
week later the entire law undergraduate received an email from the head of the Law
school, Frank Stephen, that these proposals had been voted on by the Board of Law. To put
it lightly, students were not pleased. How had this decision come about? Were students
consulted? What could we do?
As there has been much confusion, protest and general inaccuracy concerning this issue
this article aims to provide a comprehensive and accurate account of what these decisions
mean and how students have reacted.
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