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FOR GOD’S SAKE, TEACH RELIGION PERHAPS HE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN THE LESSON Cuts blamed
for ‘irrelevant’ crime modules JOSH BAMFORD AND MANE GRIGORYAN
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RELIGION students are having to listen to ‘irrelevant’ lectures on criminology because of UCLan cutbacks. Undergraduates on the religion, culture and society course are choosing elective modules that have nothing to do with what they signed up for. Among others they are being offered are sessions on state crime and genocide and terrorism and security. One RCS student said after turning up to one of the modules from a different course, the lecturer said it ‘had nothing to do with religion’. Another module had not been prepared for the students and the classroom did not have enough tables and chairs, the student added. The students suspect cutbacks are to blame after 51 full-time members of staff reportedly left UCLan through voluntary redundancy earlier this year. When students raised concerns, the university said no compulsory redundancies were made and measures were being put in place to ‘safeguard the future of UCLan’. It was looking to ‘develop new courses and combinations of courses in areas of
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