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