12 May 1999 Summer School Offers Advantages to Mid-Year Entrants

Study continuity offered by Lincoln University's Summer School has proved a major attraction to vacation study for many students.

"Survey data from the University's first Summer School shows that students are very keen to speed up their degree programmes by doing and passing papers as quickly as possible," says Summer School Project Manager Dr Jeff Heyl.

"By completing some of their normal university papers in the compressed and accelerated timeframe of a five-week Summer School semester students can significantly shorten their overall stay at university."

This offers a particular advantage for students starting at Lincoln through Mid­-Year Entry in July. After completing their first semester of studies, and if available papers and courses match up, the students can go straight on and enrol in Summer School without having to wait out the summer vacation until resuming their academic work.

Some 15 or more papers will be offered in the 1999-2000 Summer School with most of them in the Commerce degree area but others fitting into the Social Science and Landscape Architecture degrees. Along with everyone else, Mid­-Year Entry students will be able to make optimum use of their time by picking up new papers at Summer School to build into their degrees or repeating failed papers if that's the case.

"While Summer School doesn't cut tuition costs, it does provide a real saving at the end of the day on other costs," says Dr Heyl. "Accommodation, transport and general living expenses all come down if you compress your total study time by attending Summer School over the vacation period."

Ian Collins, Journalist, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand