I'm helping my friend with her Arts timetable and there is an auto-allocated lecture for FRENCH running at the same time as an auto-allocated part one lecture for philosophy, is it ok to miss lectures or will she have to consider changing subjects (im really sorry if this has already been asked & answered but we are dazed and desperate to find out)
Take it by ear. Realistically, she should be able to manage. She should be able to watch one of them online instead. So long as she has the discipline to watch the lecture she misses online instead, she'll be alright. Most uni students are quite lazy and don't much like attending lectures anyway.
However, if after the first few weeks she finds it isn't working out so well, it might be best to push philosophy back to second semester and bring one of her second semester subjects forward instead.
Also, some subjects might have a test held during lecture time, so just be aware of when the test is (if this happens to be the case for her subjects). She *will* need to attend that test, regardless of the clash.