of their teaching.29 The solution to the problem of high levels of academic
absenteeism is not to make attendance compulsory, nor to design exams so
as to make attendance necessary, but to improve the quality of our teaching,
in terms of both content and format, to provide students with the right
incentives and let them vote with their feet.
29See the comments in Brauer (1994) for a comprehensive discussion of the arguments
against enforcing attendance.
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