Class sizes still exceeding maximum limit
Official LSE figures reveal 14.2 per cent of undergraduate classes currently exceed the official fifteen-student-per-class recommendation. This represents 223 out of 1574 total undergraduate classes.This is a marginal improvement from last year, when 14.9 per cent of undergraduate classes topped the limit.
Three years ago, Janet Hartley, the Pro-Director of Teaching and Learning, instituted the Teaching Task Force in an attempt to address this issue. Despite this effort, large class sizes remains one of the most pressing issues regarding the teaching quality at the LSE.
Figures reveal the problem affects many departments at the LSE. As it transpires, more evident cases are observed in bigger departments, such as the Department of Economics and the Department of Geography and Environment.
There is also a significant number of over subscribed classes in many second and third year modules.
Data indicated that all five “Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control” and “Economics in Public Policy” classes have at least seventeen students each, with the largest one having 21.