The supervision gap part ② – how does your college compare?

Figures for Engineering, English, Geography, History of Art and History are this day’s releases

by Phelim Brady

This article is 12 years old

Wednesday April 24 2013, 2:51pm

Today we release the figures for five more subjects from our investigation into the Cambridge supervision gap, including data for some for some of Cambridge's largest courses. Yesterday we published figures covering Archaelology and Anthropology, Chemical Engineering, Classics, Computer Science and Economics.

Using data from the university's CamCORS system, obtained through freedom of information requests, the figures show how many hours of supervision and college classes the average student received in the 2011-2012 academic year. It should be noted that in some cases the figures may be problematic because of a number of issues, such as differences in how colleges record their data. See below for full details.

You can find the other releases here:

Arch & Anth, Chemical Engineering, Classics, Computer Science and Economics

Law, Maths, Land Economy, Linguistics and Medical and Veterinary Sciences

MML, Music, Natural Sciences, Philosophy and PPS

Engineering

Supervision hours per student, 2011-2012	Part IA	Part IB	Part IIA	Part IIB
Christ’s College	42.88	56.29	63.57	31.21
Churchill College	47.76	50.16	29.67	15.79
Corpus Christi College	51.3	39.9	31.6	18.5
Fitzwilliam College	45.49	44.9	27.4	15.55
Girton College	60.68	59.17	32.08	19
Gonville & Caius	54.07	55.34	30.76	17.88
Homerton College	67	71.78	30.09	19.77
Jesus College				53.17
King’s College	55.5	60.91	33.87	18.48
Lucy Cavendish College	51.3	47	34	20
Magdalene College	56.2	63.9	30.04	19.7
Newnham College	78.88	61.16	30.75	20.3
Peterhouse	45.76	53.64	44.4	15.65
Robinson College	36.96	41.5	32.15	17.84
Selwyn College	41.91	48.56	28.33	18.93
Sidney Sussex College	87	66	32	16
St Catharine’s College	58.3	50.7	26.42	17.08
Trinity College	46.21	40.77	30.41	21.27
Trinity Hall	59	47.13	28	16.36

	Parts I & II
*Downing College	36.6

English

Supervision hours per student, 2011-2012	Part I	Part II
Christ’s College	57.85	47.88
Churchill College	65.6	52.95
Corpus Christi College	85.88	71.97
Fitzwilliam College	64.4	49
Girton College	73.59
Gonville & Caius	87.27	56.13
Homerton College	73.26	62.7
Jesus College
King’s College	75.5	57
Lucy Cavendish College	82.16	27.2
Magdalene College	108	54.1
Newnham College	81.67	64.47
Peterhouse	68.94	55.54
Robinson College	68.69	52.45
Selwyn College	69.88	37.84
Sidney Sussex College	76	46
St Catharine’s College	89.06	51.25
Trinity College	104.52	59.22
Trinity Hall		55.46

	Parts I & II
Downing College	50

Geography

Supervision hours per student, 2011-2012	Part IA	Part IB	Part II
Christ’s College	22	17.77	23.25
Churchill College	27	19.13	17.5
Corpus Christi College	32.67	21.16	14.5
Fitzwilliam College	29.2	28.1	26.6
Girton College	32.15	22.57	32.64
Gonville & Caius	29.83	23.25	20.45
Homerton College	27.4	22.79	19.67
Jesus College	38.67	24.28	32.17
King’s College	25.53	17.05	19.9
Lucy Cavendish College			22.28
Magdalene College	27.3	23.8	20
Newnham College	26.2	22.48	22.01
Peterhouse
Robinson College	30.73	24.18	21.09
Selwyn College	31.38	23.08	15.05
Sidney Sussex College	34	23	18
St Catharine’s College	27.58	23.64	16.8
Trinity College	27.67	14.5
Trinity Hall	28.26		27.78

	Parts I & II
Downing College	21.6

History of Art

Supervision hours per student, 2011-2012	Part I	Part IIA	Part IIB
King’s College
Sidney Sussex College		25	29
Girton College		26.75	27.5
Selwyn College	21		29
Homerton College	20.75	27.21	33
Magdalene College	16	25.7	22.8
Peterhouse	16.5		27
Lucy Cavendish College
Jesus College	14.25		10
Newnham College	24.75	25.97	29
Christ’s College	22.5
Gonville & Caius	18		25.5
Robinson College	18
Trinity College	22	29	29.16
Fitzwilliam College	23	26.6
Trinity Hall	23.5	32	24
Corpus Christi College	25.75	23.33	28.66
Churchill College			25
St Catharine’s College		27

	Parts I & II
Downing College	26.6

History

Supervision hours per student, 2011-2012	Prelim for Part I	Part I	Part II
Christ’s College	37.73	18.58	17.2
Churchill College	36.4	22	16.43
Corpus Christi College	32.26	30	33.07
Fitzwilliam College	27.1	26.5	21.42
Girton College	23.28	29.44	56.57
Gonville & Caius	28.7	28.82	18.38
Homerton College	24.6	27.92	20.65
Jesus College	71.25	86.33	54.42
King’s College	52.6	27.61	27.94
Lucy Cavendish College	34.2	15.23
Magdalene College	33.4	32.6	19.2
Newnham College	59.22	35.17	36.58
Peterhouse	54.75	31.47	22.64
Robinson College	13.44	17.95	15
Selwyn College	25.1	25.86	18.21
Sidney Sussex College	47	35	40
St Catharine’s College	22.71	16.18	13.19
Trinity College	23.6	25.93	17.15
Trinity Hall	53.5	35.2	28

	Parts I & II
Downing College	31.1

*Instead of providing figures for each part, Downing College has provided a combined average for all parts of each Tripos.

In places the data is incomplete, either because figures were not supplied (when a college does not offer a course, for example) or because the data was anomalous. Some smaller Tripos courses have been excluded from our analysis. Murray Edwards College, Emmanuel College and Queens' College were the only colleges to refuse our request for this data, but a number of colleges are still yet to respond to our requests or to provide us with the data requested.

When supplying this data, colleges noted that in some cases the figures may be partially inaccurate due to a number of factors, such as differing methods of recording supervision data on the CamCORS system between colleges. A number of colleges said that this was particularly the case for some smaller courses where the cohort of students in question is relatively small. In addition, the figures will have been influenced by actions on the part of students rather than colleges, for instance if undergraduates degraded or failed to attend supervisions which were provided for them, or if they required extra classes.

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