{"id":50712,"date":"2017-06-06T14:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/studerende-bruger-mere-tid-paa-studiet\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T14:19:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T12:19:57","slug":"studerende-bruger-mere-tid-paa-studiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/studerende-bruger-mere-tid-paa-studiet\/","title":{"rendered":"Students are spending more time studying"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">The Eurostudent\u00a0study<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>International study comparing students in 28 countries across Europe.<\/li>\n<li>Around 9.000 Danish students answered the survey Eurostudent VI.<\/li>\n<li>Danish students\u2019 time spent studying has gone up from 32,0 hours to 37,6 hours a week from 2013 to 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Within Bachelor and Master levels the increase is 5,4 and 4,2 hours per week, respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>37,6 hours. That is how much time students in Danish higher education are spending on average studying every week, according to 2016\u2019s international Eurostudent study comparing info on students across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The time spent studying has gone up by five hours since 2013, where students at Danish universities, university colleges and business academies spent 32 hours a week on their studies. Minister for Higher Education and Science S\u00f8ren Pind is pleased with this development.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe need hard-working, competent students who can carry us well in to the future. We should have high expectations and demands for Danish students. It is okay that pursuing a degree is a challenging task and that is why I am pleased with this development. With that being said, the increase is primarily due to more scheduled hours of classes and less due to the students efforts outside the classrooms. I would like to see these go hand in hand in the future,\u00ab he says in a press release.<\/p>\n<h3>Four more hours in class<\/h3>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Pind hints at the fact, that out of the total increase of five hours \u2013 four of them are spent in class. So students only spend one hour more preparing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think it\u2019s more interesting, what the students do within that time<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Student Council vice-president Marie Thomsen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But according to Student Council vice-president Marie Thomsen you cannot draw a straight line from total hours spent studying to the quality of that education.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt\u2019s just a quantitative goal that doesn\u2019t necessarily say anything about the quality of education. I think it\u2019s more interesting, what the students do within that time. 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That is how much time students in Danish higher education are spending on average studying every week, according to 2016\u2019s international Eurostudent study comparing info on students across Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The time spent studying has gone up by five hours since 2013, where students at Danish universities, university colleges and business academies spent 32 hours a week on their studies. Minister for Higher Education and Science S\u00f8ren Pind is pleased with this development.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbWe need hard-working, competent students who can carry us well in to the future. We should have high expectations and demands for Danish students. It is okay that pursuing a degree is a challenging task and that is why I am pleased with this development. With that being said, the increase is primarily due to more scheduled hours of classes and less due to the students efforts outside the classrooms. I would like to see these go hand in hand in the future,\u00ab he says in a press release.<\/p>\n<h3>Four more hours in class<\/h3>\n<p>S\u00f8ren Pind hints at the fact, that out of the total increase of five hours \u2013 four of them are spent in class. So students only spend one hour more preparing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think it\u2019s more interesting, what the students do within that time<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Student Council vice-president Marie Thomsen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But according to Student Council vice-president Marie Thomsen you cannot draw a straight line from total hours spent studying to the quality of that education.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt\u2019s just a quantitative goal that doesn\u2019t necessarily say anything about the quality of education. I think it\u2019s more interesting, what the students do within that time. It is more important\u00a0to know how much of the time is spent on group work, classes or study groups, which can make people smarter the same way preparation can.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, Bachelor\u2019s students spend an average of 37,9 hours a week on their studies, while Master\u2019s students spend 38,1 hours. 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