Comments on: Back to School #4 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/ Noli nothis permittere te terere Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:24:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1671 Primal Sneeze Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:40:44 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1671 That's scary!<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1671','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> That’s scary!
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]]> By: Rosie http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1658 Rosie Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:01:11 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1658 I've never met an external examiner. I don't believe in them, to be honest. Not as in I think they're a bad idea, as in I think <i>they don't actually exist</i>.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1658','Rosie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I’ve never met an external examiner. I don’t believe in them, to be honest. Not as in I think they’re a bad idea, as in I think they don’t actually exist.
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]]> By: Primal Sneeze http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1647 Primal Sneeze Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:40:29 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1647 Grannymar - Correct! As I say at the top of the page, <i>Noli nothis permittere te terere</i>. Rosie - Question: Are the externs in on the racket? They'd have to be - or are the scripts they view <i>specially</i> selected? Sugar - I had those dreams once a week for about 5 years - long after finishing college the first time and before beginning again. I don't know what brought them on or why they suddenly stopped. It makes you empathise with the kids doing their Leaving Cert though. Medbh - True, yes. But in my year one I shared lectures with undergrad years 1, 2 & 3 and I seen it right across all of them. Okay, it was a lot less common with the 3rd years than the 1st years, but was still happening.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1647','Primal Sneeze'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Grannymar – Correct! As I say at the top of the page, Noli nothis permittere te terere.

Rosie – Question: Are the externs in on the racket? They’d have to be – or are the scripts they view specially selected?

Sugar – I had those dreams once a week for about 5 years – long after finishing college the first time and before beginning again. I don’t know what brought them on or why they suddenly stopped. It makes you empathise with the kids doing their Leaving Cert though.

Medbh – True, yes. But in my year one I shared lectures with undergrad years 1, 2 & 3 and I seen it right across all of them. Okay, it was a lot less common with the 3rd years than the 1st years, but was still happening.

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]]> By: Medbh http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1638 Medbh Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:46:26 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1638 Well, funding is a large part of it, but many students need to get through a shite first year before they find their stride and cop the fuck on to what they need to do or how to be a student.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1638','Medbh'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Well, funding is a large part of it, but many students need to get through a shite first year before they find their stride and cop the fuck on to what they need to do or how to be a student.
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]]> By: Sugar Britches http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1636 Sugar Britches Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:31:04 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1636 I've been out of college for over 15 years and I still have those nightmares! Not two months ago I dreamt I was late for finals and when I got to campus realized I didn't know where any of my classes were because I had attended so sporadically. I woke up in a cold sweat.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1636','Sugar Britches'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> I’ve been out of college for over 15 years and I still have those nightmares! Not two months ago I dreamt I was late for finals and when I got to campus realized I didn’t know where any of my classes were because I had attended so sporadically. I woke up in a cold sweat.
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]]> By: Rosie http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1634 Rosie Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:28:18 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1634 <i>Is it because fees are the lifeblood of a university and accepting all comers into year one and passing them into year two ensures funding?</i> In a word; yep. I lectured for a year and had the pleasure of sitting on exam boards, deciding which of the students were to be allowed pass by compensation and which of them would have to repeat the year. There is a tacit understanding that bums on seats bring funding, but only if those bums get a piece of paper at the end of it. I was all for failing some of my students, their language skills were so poor that I knew they'd be at a disadvantage if allowed to continue (they wouldn't be able follow what was going on in class) but as they'd passed all of their other subjects, they had to be allowed to proceed. It reflects badly on the institution to have them drop out after failing a year, but better that than to release them into the workforce, clueless, qualified and incompetant. I was outvoted though :-(<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1634','Rosie'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Is it because fees are the lifeblood of a university and accepting all comers into year one and passing them into year two ensures funding?

In a word; yep.

I lectured for a year and had the pleasure of sitting on exam boards, deciding which of the students were to be allowed pass by compensation and which of them would have to repeat the year. There is a tacit understanding that bums on seats bring funding, but only if those bums get a piece of paper at the end of it. I was all for failing some of my students, their language skills were so poor that I knew they’d be at a disadvantage if allowed to continue (they wouldn’t be able follow what was going on in class) but as they’d passed all of their other subjects, they had to be allowed to proceed. It reflects badly on the institution to have them drop out after failing a year, but better that than to release them into the workforce, clueless, qualified and incompetant.

I was outvoted though :-(

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]]> By: Grannymar http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/comment-page-1/#comment-1633 Grannymar Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:29:33 +0000 http://www.primalsneeze.com/2007/09/20/back-to-school-4/#comment-1633 Never let anyone burst your bubble! As I used to preach at Elly "Do your best, nobody can ask anything more of you!"<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('1633','Grannymar'); return false;">Reply</a> </div> Never let anyone burst your bubble!

As I used to preach at Elly “Do your best, nobody can ask anything more of you!”

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