Ideally these texts should not only contain a table of contents though. They should also contain detailed aims and objectives in each chapter. This allows students to know precisely what is expected of them and to study efficiently. The clearly structured text should be supplemented with footnote references for further study and at the end of each larger part of the course exercises should be added. The latter will allow the student to evaluate on an individual basis whether he or she meets the aims and objectives which were set out.
Students can get familiar with university exams and test their knowledge at that stage.
It is submitted that further improvements can be made in this area through the introduction of exercises in each course. To this end lectures should be interrupted for one or two seminars when a larger part of the course has been dealt with, or approximately once every six weeks. These exercises need to be prepared by the students and should test their knowledge in the area taught immediately beforehand and to evaluate whether they meet the aims and objectives. The preparation should involve independent library research to widen the student's sources of materials and to teach them independent research skills, which are often left underdeveloped due to the dominance of lectures in the existing model. These exercises can be modelled on the English tutorial exercises and they should complement the exercises in the student texts.