{"id":152922,"date":"2023-04-04T15:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T13:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=152922"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:43","slug":"shorter-and-fewer-tutorials-at-public-administration-and-sociology-worry-tutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/04\/04\/shorter-and-fewer-tutorials-at-public-administration-and-sociology-worry-tutors\/","title":{"rendered":"Shorter and fewer tutorials at Public Administration and Sociology worry tutors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The small-scale tutorials at the bachelors of Public Administration, Management of International Social Challenges (MISOC) and Sociology will become shorter, larger and less frequent next year. Students will have fewer guidance and mental support, and the jobs of tutors might be at stake, expect tutors Gabriela de la Vega and Billy Groom.<\/p>\n

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Fewer tutors are indeed needed, faculty vice dean of education Bram Steijn confirms, but this is part of a larger revision of education and meant as a quality boost, he explains. \u201cWe think tutorials are still very important and about fifty percent of them will remain. But one aim of the revision that started this academic year is to make education less dependent on tutors with relatively little experience. We want to intensify contact with more qualified staff instead of tutors, so we\u2019re hiring more assistant professors and academic teachers on permanent contracts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Covid and ChatGPT<\/h2>

According to Steijn, the tutorials had worked fine for years, but in recent years, circumstances have changed. \u201cA few years ago, we already had to scale back the tutorials from three to two hours because there weren\u2019t enough classrooms available. And then corona happened. Two-hour remote tutorials didn\u2019t work well during the pandemic. Nowadays, you see assignments are happily shared among students or they use ChatGPT for them. So the nature of assignments has to change. And we haven\u2019t scored well in the National Student Survey for years, and our students tend to be not very self-sufficient at the end of their studies. We really had to figure out a new vision for our education. And having quite unexperienced teachers in such an important role seemed like one of the places we could improve upon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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