Professors at the University of Cambridge are facing a backlash from students for scrapping recorded lectures.
The university started recording lectures as standard during the pandemic, when in-person meetings were restricted.
Last summer, students were told to expect lectures to continue to be recorded this academic year as a “transitional measure” alongside in-person lectures, while “further exploration of the post-pandemic teaching and learning landscape is conducted”.
However, the faculty of human, social and political sciences – whose alumni include Hugh Laurie, the actor, Christopher Steele, the former MI6 spy, and John Healey, the shadow defence secretary – said it would end recordings because they have resulted in declining in-person attendance.
Now, more than 200 undergraduates have signed a letter to the faculty’s professors demanding the return of recorded lecturers so they do not have to attend in person.
