'On Campus' Video - UWA/AV/1/12ii

 Leaflet

• Video on teaching methods especially in Maths in hope of inspiring Sixth Formers to go to university.
• Shot in Spring 1970, drawing on all aspects of student life, in particular the adjustment from school to university.
• At the time, 2000 students, 260 academic staff, 27 professors, and 65 research staff made up the university.

Video

• Student accomodation - focus on J block in Rootes building which was £4 per week, 60% students on campus, the other 40% in Coventry or Leamington.
• Rural location exaggerated as a plus point for studying at Warwick, perhaps an 'intellectual landscape'.
• Law lecture filmed - basic chalk and talk, students comment on missing lectures due to the difference in school and university structure i.e self directed study rather than forced.
• 'No work and all play' principle shattered by the reality of university pressures.
• Art on the walls - large abstract paintings, link with Sarah Shalgosky interview and use of modernism to portray a new, dynamic intellectual style of university.
• Before attending university it is seen as an apiration, following arrival and the loss of security of home, this leads to uncertainty and questioning of motivation to continue education in the first place.
• Active student body observed, busy union, protests, events and societies.
• Student union meeting filmed, very good attendance, observe a discussion of legal action being taken against student protestors on campus.
• University education portrayed as about the overall experience rather than just the work and academic aspect.
• Discussion of higher education and the influx of working class students - alot of debate, some students were very supportive of this but one male student filmed was against it completely arguing that the working class were needed for industry and did not need to expand their intellect.
• Interesting quote from a student;'Lectures are churned out to you and you expect to absorb it all, but you just can't.' HAS THIS CHANGED!??
• The definition of what it means to be a student is different for each individual, although the common factor in shaping this definition is that one is FREE to choose how one wishes to define themselves.

'The Warwick Video' 1989-1990 UWA/AV/1/52

• Prospectus video.
• Importance of Freshers' fair and non-academic life stressed.
• Students of mixed nationalities, classes, and races - more inclusive education.
• Very green campus, campus life stressed as a plus point of Warwick, significant?
• Highlight of interdisciplinarity of Warwick courses, best of the traditional and the new - has its spaces tried to reflect this intellectual commitment?
• Importance of links with industry and research.
• Warwick welfare system highlighted, interestingly exams presented as 'character building'.
• Video presented as a MARKETING PLOY rather than a realistic picture of student life as the 1970s video portrayed.

Notes by L.E