Pubey
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I also think a lot of degree courses (mostly arty/media types) could easily be condensed into 2 years rather than 3. You hear about some students who have 3/4 teaching hours a week - what are they paying for (or should I say getting in debt for)? If you shortened the course to 2 years it would cost them, and the taxpayer less.
I think that's highly unlikely/unusual.
For a degree to be called a 'degree' it has to meet a fairly strict criteria. Just because there may be relatively few 'teaching hours' doesn't mean that the student isn't working. Lectures are a fairly inefficient and 'outdated' way of learning, there's a big shift towards other methods.
My wife studied history - she maybe had 8 contact hours (lectures and tutorials), but was in the library a lot of the time doing research, reading and studying.
I don't think degrees could really be compressed into 2 years when most of the first year is correcting issues and gaps in knowledge and skills that arise from out outdated and not fit-for-purpose A-level system.