Bloody hell! Why do we have prerequisites for modules if course directors don't insist on applying them? My 2^nd/3^rd year "Web Technologies" module (glorified title for "Dynamic HTML and a brief XML introduction") requires 1^st year HTML (Obv: You need to know HTML as a basis for many web technologies!) Yet I have a dozen students who have no HTML prior knowledge for whom (poor suckers!) I have to arrange extra tuition for them to have a hope of getting anything out of the module :-(

Note I'm not complaining about the other dozen who have expressed an interest in extra HTML because they've "forgotten" it in the 6-18 months since finishing the module -- AFAIC you revise your prerequisite modules before embarking on new and interesting stuff that builds on prior modules. If you can't be bothered to do-so then so much the worse for you...

This Higher Education thing should involve effort on both sides of the lectern -- I put in the effort to "teach", students should put in the effort to "learn". If I don't do my job then fine! Complain -- you've every right to. If students don't do their job, to whom can we complain? No-one! Bring-on "learning contracts" and student accountability, I say!