Scientific Mathematics takes place from 3-5pm and this is what the online timetable says. Unfortunately, and unbeknownst to me, a printed timetable had been issued having the class as 9-11am. There was one student in attendance who had got up at 7am in order to attend my class - which was due to run until 5pm!
In a far worse case it transpired that one student was taking her degree alongside a full time job. Her employer was very understanding and had arranged her schedule around the lecture commitments. Since Scientific Mathematics was on a Thursday morning, they had arranged for her to work on a Thursday afternoon. This meant she would only be able to attend very rarely. This is a really terrible consequence of a silly error on the part of the University. It had been agreed that since this student had an A-Level in mathematics it would not be too problematic for her to complete the course in a sort of distance-learning mode, attending where she can.
