You told us that ppt lectures usually do not work well (staff don't pace lectures well, students are unclear what is needed and ppt notes are hard to revise from). After discussion at the SSLC, we introduced guidelines strongly discouraging ppt-based lectures. These were published in 2017 and are by and large followed by staff.

Students said they wanted more computing and employers seemed to look increasingly for computing skills. More "computing" can mean many things - more use of packages, more low-level programming (using compiled languages). Not all students want or need the same things. We agreed a policy in 2020. The final agreed change, an enlarged fourth year component, will run for the first time in 23/24.

After Covid, education theorists and administrators at Warwick (and elsewhere) argued that material should increasingly be presented online with live lectures being phased out. Staff and students would meet to discuss how things were progressing. The education theorists call this blended learning. An SSLC-organised survey showed a strong student preference among physics students for a full return to live lectures. This is what we have done.

In 2022/3, the Vice-Chancellor, his deputy and the acting academic registrar all proposed without consulting you or us that the University should ban overcatting. Together with CS, Maths and Statistics, we organised opportunities for students to give their opinion. We sent the results to the Chair of the Board of Science together with a point-by-point rebuttal of the proposal. The plan is now back under review, with an understanding that changes to the curriculum should not be introduced without proper consultation.