Timetables - One Working Day to go

Well we now have one more working day (Wednesday August 9 th)before (in theory) the timetables are signed off for next year on Thursday (August 10 th).

Absolutely NO CHANGES will be allowed after Thursday is the message that I got but I'm still waiting for the second attempt at a timmetable for my first year module HMNS10061 Computing and Social Research for the Human services degree. The first attempt really suffered because none of the I classes were in computing resource rooms. Not that the proposed timetable for the rest of the modules on that particular degree was much better.

So tomorrow I expect to get the final version of the timetable for this module (Not!) and I will then be signed off on Thursday. I'm a little puzzled as to why NTU (or whatever particular project team) chose this date for the final sign-off as next Thursday we have the "A" level results in England and the start of the clearing frenzy. Surely better to wait a couple weeks and see what slow recruiting courses manage to pick up in that first week of clearing? After all you might then want to increase or decrease the number of seminar groups you have based upon the final expected numbers?

Or am I missing something?