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Room overcrowding could be eased with fli~·over desk chairs, s~ UEA
Academic bosses consider this a possible way oftackling seminar overcrowding. But there's only enough room for an A4 pad. let alone a pile oftextbooks ... :..
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SITTING in-a seminar could never be the same again, when Registry bosses move to tackle class overcrowding. They may recommend discarding seminar desks, replacing them with chairs featuring built-in flip-overwriUng rests instead. But this would scarcely leave By room for an A4 writing pad and textbook, and would be unlikely Andrew Biggs to alleviate the present cramped school have to face lectures or conditions. Academic Registrar, Or Tony seminars where there are not Rich, admits that increases in stu- enough seats and no taele space dent numbers have led to existing for taking notes. Added Or Rich, "Another soseminar rooms being unable to cope with overcrowding, some- lution is to increase the capacity thing that he feels is "particularly of existing rooms by removing the tables and replacing them with bad" this year. Students in virtually every chairs that have folding-out writ-
ing desks." One EUR student recently reported a seminar group with as many as 45 people, whilst others are being expected to take exams in similarly cramped conditions. When the 1994-5 academic timetable was set out last year, the exact number of students enrolled in each course was not known. This has meant many groups are now too large for the rooms they have been allocated. Or Rich also hopes that the new Elizabeth Fry Building which
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