How is teaching at Essex?

Don't know what Herriot-Watt is, but from my experience, a lot of the lecturers read off the slides. Powerpoints are up to 60 slides long with just black on white text or some diagram.

Thank you for your answer! Are you sure? What about the Seminars? Do they at least make the lecture interesting? Don't they do examples as well on blackboard during lecture? I really need to know! Don't just scare me off like that. :P
I am used to learn maths mostly from doing applications rather than from learning it from "black and white text slides".
Thank you!
Cris

They are up to 60 slides long. Been that way since second year.

Some might write stuff on the white board, but a lot of the time they don't bother. A lot of what they say is word for word what's on the slides (but then, there is a fair bit they expand on too). A lot of slides are black on white text, where there is a diagram or schematic, it's not really labelled in a way you can tell what it is after the lecture (there's no figure legend either) unless you're listening on listen again or got the notes first time. Student attrition rates are high as well in lectures. Might say you're better off listening on listen again than attending live (but they monitor attendance now, so you're out of luck). Some are better than others. This is biomedical science though, don't know about maths

One of the best lecturers didn't use PowerPoint at all, just a few handouts and you remember everything.

I have just been admitted at Essex for the Actuarial Science Degree. How would you describe your years from an academic point of view there if you have studied this degree? Is it better than Herriot-Watt for instance?