Skipping lectures

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-404687/University-students-skip-lectures-thrown-out.html


It's an odd thing that as weeks pass by, less and less students attend the lectures. This isn't a typical thing for Wolverhampton, because in my hometown in the Netherlands the same phenomenon seems to be growing in popularity. I try to attend every lecture, if only for the reason to show respect towards the lecturer. Besides, what some students tend to forget, is that not every important thing said during the lecture will be put online. Because I think that's the cause of all this. Students know that the lecture will be online for them to look at, so they don't bother to go to the lecture anymore. I'm not saying that the lecture should be removed from the internet because this is very handy for essays en exams, but it does seem to feed the absence of students. Something else some students are forgetting, is that the most important things will be announced in the weeks before the essay deadline/exam, so these should be the lectures to attend. Personally I don't care if people do or do not want to go to the lecture, as long as they don't ask stupid questions about things that have been explained during the lecture.