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  • tinkerbel
    tinkerbel Posts: 1,795 Forumite
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    That is a fair point, and granted it is annoying. Students should be (and in my experience are) told a week or two before the lecture that it will be cancelled that day or rescheduled.

    I have been told before, half an hour into waiting around for a lecturer, that they actually got the dates of the term wrong, and won't be flying back from China (home) for another week. This in my opinion is unacceptable. Surely he/the uni knew when he booked his filghts and could have told us.

    I go to a 'good' university and have 10 people in my class. It still takes months to get work back (the previous example where I said it took 5 months in a class of 100 people is a shared module)
  • heretolearn_2
    heretolearn_2 Posts: 3,565 Forumite
    OU again - 14 days :-) but even that is torture! I'm so sorry for those of you hanging on and on, it's not reasonable at all.

    We get quite a lot of feedback too, an A4 sheet specifically showing the marks and a commentary on our work, plus tutors anotate a copy of your work with comments and you get that back.
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  • LindsayO
    LindsayO Posts: 398 Forumite
    tinkerbel wrote: »
    I have been told before, half an hour into waiting around for a lecturer, that they actually got the dates of the term wrong, and won't be flying back from China (home) for another week. This in my opinion is unacceptable. Surely he/the uni knew when he booked his filghts and could have told us.

    I go to a 'good' university and have 10 people in my class. It still takes months to get work back (the previous example where I said it took 5 months in a class of 100 people is a shared module)

    how about this scenario.

    Lecturer books his flight back, not realising he has made a mistake. Doesn't tell uni when he booked his flights. He assumes he has got the dates right and instead says he will be back for the first day of the new term.

    First day, or his first lecture of the new term arrives. He is not there, uni calls or emails him, he realises his mistake, might take awhile, he might not be checking his email regularly at the end of his break. By this point its too late to contact you before your class with him. The only way to let you know is at the lecture
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  • tinkerbel
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    if they had let us know, rather than us let them know.
    The fact someone who is meant to be very competant missed a week by 'mistakenly booking the wrong flight' is a bit rubbish in my opinion!
  • melancholly
    melancholly Posts: 7,457 Forumite
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    tinkerbel wrote: »
    if they had let us know, rather than us let them know.
    The fact someone who is meant to be very competant missed a week by 'mistakenly booking the wrong flight' is a bit rubbish in my opinion!
    ok, but how many times have you made a genuine mistake in your life? i'd guess more than once - yes it's a bit rubbish, but i'm sure they'll reschedule and the content won't be missed.

    i get that some courses don't have perfect organisation, but life sometimes just happens. the number of students who over-sleep and forget a lecture, or want extra time with lecturers because something came up in their personal life, or get messed about by public transport and turn up late, or have to miss some course content due to part time jobs etc etc etc is vast. give a lecturer a break because some dates were confused on one occasion. if you want everything from the uni to be perfect, you'd better be the most prefect group of students in response ;)
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  • Rosie75
    Rosie75 Posts: 609 Forumite
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    i get that some courses don't have perfect organisation, but life sometimes just happens. the number of students who over-sleep and forget a lecture, or want extra time with lecturers because something came up in their personal life, or get messed about by public transport and turn up late, or have to miss some course content due to part time jobs etc etc etc is vast. give a lecturer a break because some dates were confused on one occasion. if you want everything from the uni to be perfect, you'd better be the most prefect group of students in response ;)
    This is good point. In most seminars and lectures, between 10 and 40% of students are absent (often when they are supposed to be giving presentations, and usually without providing any explanation for their absence), and the lecturer also has to deal with people wandering in late. Yet, when one of the lecturers in my department had to reschedule a class to go to her father's funeral, and another ended a seminar early because he was still recovering from a long-term illness, you should have heard the complaints...
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