Remember guys, three unexcused absences and you fail the course!

Really depends on the course to be honest. Also people that are responsible enough would know by themselves when it's useful to attend. As long as you are able to reach the goals you should be allowed to get the degree.

I hope you have a kid who develops depression.

b-but that's communism and might help bl- I mean welfare queens and leeches!

>Also people that are responsible enough would know by themselves when it's useful to attend.
I was one of those people and made a mess out of it all. The faculty kept track of people's results vs attendance and there was a strong correlation.
Afterwards they enforced it more strictly and I just started going everywhere + used pen and paper for notes and now I am 3 credits away from my diploma.

Everyone including me said the same "we are old enough to decide for ourselves" but the fact is students are manchildren and should be treated as such

Main reason for depression is sitting in your room skipping responsibilities

...which is aggravated by the depression itself
And you just revealed you know nothing about the condition.

Majority of depressions are caused by bad lifestyle. Some people are fucked by genetically caused ones but most have a bad period in their lives and with some help can get it back together

I don't know how it works in the Netherlands, but here in Italy you cannot really "fail a course". You fail the exam, and that's it, but you can take the exam how many times you want, and you don't have to take it necessarily during the first session available.
If you fuck up because you're too lazy to show up at school, it doesn't have any tragic consequence, but it forces you to get your shit together if you don't want to waste even more time.

I agree that university students are manchildren, but compulsory attendance mostly damages those who also work or are professional athletes.

Also albeit I agree there is causality between attendance and academic results, their correlation may as well be given by the fact that those who attend when there is no compulsary attendance are just more likely to be better organised in their studies.

To be honest it's a pretty scummy thing to do. Every time it costs the social security 25€, even for a 10 minutes consultation.
Not all classes have compulsory attendance anyway, and you don't really risk anything if you don't attend those with compulsory attendance (except if you're a bursary student, then they might cut the bursary and ask you to pay back what they've already gave you for the school year, although I don't think it actually happens very often).

And getting shit grades from unsympathetic teachers only makes things worse.

>I agree that university students are manchildren, but compulsory attendance mostly damages those who also work or are professional athletes.
Of course it shouldn't hurt those with a good reason but about 95% of the people in university doing a bachelor are student first and something else second.
Athletes, full time employed, chronically ill, they are the minority.
>may as well be given by the fact that those who attend when there is no compulsary attendance are just more likely to be better organised in their studies.
Bad students perform better too. People hardly ever fail a subject because they don't understand it, but mainly because they just didn't invest enough time.

Theres plenty arguments to be made against compulsory absence but I feel a lot of the time it's just people trying to make student life seem like some sacred rite of passage in adulthood whereas I think university should be about getting a degree. Which is what compulsory attendance does

>Excuse me teach, but could you stop asking me to work ? I'm just here to get my scholarship.
>By the way can you warn my work group that i won't help them next month, holidays are coming and i get my scholarship at the start of the month so i won't bother to come.

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Most teachers are sympathetic people in my experience