1) >?Would it be possible to get third year students to participate as
> teachers in the first year practicals??

> ?Excellent suggestion (no payments though, only credits), but to work
> it needs most of the third year to be willing to teach the first
> years. Are they??

Although I can´t speak on behalf of every present second year 
students, many of us became already excited about the opportunity to 
teach the first year students the basic things of biochemistry 
practicals. Naturally, this requires time for -the teaching without 
any simultaneous lectures of our own, but otherwise at least I am in 
on that.

2) Some of the second year students seem to be also interested in 
going to schools to tell about biochemistry, if that is needed. I 
recall that eg. physics department did pay their students the money 
they had to spend on traveling to their own high school if they went 
to talk about physics in Oulu. I don´t know if that would work in our 
department and I think students might be willing to go without any fee 
(eg. to high schools in Oulu). The opportunity to go to schools could 
be encouraged in future, also before/after/while doing one´s BSc 
thesis (also "while", since if you do a poster you would have both 
something to show and to say). It would also be nice to know how 
interested the schools themselves  are in getting someone to talk.

Susanna Teppo

I like both suggestions, but there are some implementation issues. Tuomo if you would like to make some general comments and then if we could discuss at the meeting next week.

Also more student views on this and other issues would be useful.

Finally, if people are wondering why I am sending these feedbacks from students to the bklists it is because the students can't as they are not on the bklist mailing group - Lloyd