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Terrible University Course

FrankR · 2018-09-07 14:26:04

Hello, I'll try to be brief. My son started a University course last year at what we thought was a good university (it is very high in the rankings). However, the department that teaches this course has made lots of mistakes all throughout the year - they lost his exam scripts and official marks were awarded incorrectly…

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Aylesbury_Duck Posts: 16,294 Forumite

8 September 2018 at 5:48PM

jackboy1 wrote: »

No, it's never the student's fault if they underachieve, don't attend or hand in work when it's due, without submitting for exceptional factors. It's always the academics or admin fault (or the cleaner, bus driver or anyone else they may encouter!)

Be fair, they've paid £9,250 p.a. so they are now customers and expect a first or 2:1 for their money, irrespective of how much work they put in...

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