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At the moment, lectures are not being recorded. This may be due to attendance related issues, but last year I struggled to attend due to the lack of reliability of the trains, and I know so many others who are also in this position.

This would mean that in order to catch up, I would have to research the subject area independently, and most times I would be unsure if I was recording the correct information. I know many other students who are also experiencing this.

As a result of struggling during the first semester, I decided during the mid-module evaluations of the following semester to raise this issue. When my seminar leader for one of the modules talked us through the most common evaluations of the module, the most raised was the fact the lectures were not being recorded, and he said he would raise this issue. I was hopeful that this would change as the new semester started, but it has not.

Furthermore, I believe that recording the lectures simultaneously as they present the lecture would also help students with certain learning difficulties such as dyslexia to be able to go back over the lecture as many times as they wish and revisit to re-write their notes and see which parts of the lecture match to which slides to be able to gather a better understanding.

Some lecturers do allow you to record the lecture if you are present, but at times it can be difficult to hear parts of the lecture due to a variety of issues, such as other students talking. Having a recording of the lecture where the lecturer is speaking directly into the microphone would allow students to go back and listen back to the parts they could not hear both at the time, and on their recording.

If there are issues with attendance with those who have no excuse to come into campus, I believe this problem should be resolved with those individuals. This is the only university that I am aware of which does not record lectures, and this is unfair.

When I speak to others who attend other universities have their lectures recorded, and a student who attended BCU a few years ago informed me they were being recorded at the time. This should be changed to be recorded again.