I can't believe that lecturer did this!

[PeachyClair]

Was told before Easter, no more lectures. told last week, one more but was too late to cover for kids. At class he gave the questions for our ecam tomorrow to those who were there, and amde them promise not to tell us. !!!!!. Someone gave in, but twenty minuets ago and exam at 9.30. Bears no resemblance to the revise this list he gave us.

All year it's been like this- extra classes that conveniently clash with the RE classes we have to get to, whilst his favourites get extra classes / notes / drop in.

What a BASTARD! Will ahve to be up at 5 just to scrape in I reckon. Assuming this list is genuiine that is.

Ethical! Guess which class I am dropping ASAP!

Aww bastard!

I'd complain - bang out of order. I get so pissed off with lecturers changing things at short notice, but that 's just ordinary lectures. if he had done this I would be fuming. It's unethical, unfair, unprofessional,

PC... definitely complain. That is well out of order...

Not professional at all. Lecturers are more than aware that the student population is much more diverse than even 10-15 years ago and includes people with caring responsibilities who need to make arrangements particularly where there is a change to the standard times. I would complain to the Head of Dept, the Head of School/Faculty/College, the Academic Registrar and your tutor/superviser. All of them. You are important to the running of the University and the academics need to take better care.

Thanks. I'm averaging B+ which is pretty good, but I realised he did this before.... spent all Esater rying to get stats exam details from him, got them a week before, students on other course (bizarrely counselling) got the essay subject six weeks ago. This has to be against every rule of f air play

What an unoprofessional excuse for a lecturer Peachy. I'm one too and if I did this my students wouldn't stand forit, and quite rightly too. Definitely complain. Good luck for today though. (btw first instalment of swap package is heading to you in the post today! :) )

There's three of us angry, for some bizarre reason the rest (about 50?) put up with it unquestioningly. One of my colleagues thinks he is doing an experiment on us (it IS a Psychology class), however I feel sure the ethics committee would shoot this one out of the air!

Let's see what happens in the exam, but we're complaining afterwards. fortunately I raised concerns before so I have back up with my tutor, indeed she raised with him and he promised to put anything else up on the virtual blackboard system, which he has failed to do.

For some reason, our students- they just don't react. Incredibly passive, find it hard to understand. not what i think a student should be.

Thanks

The more I think about it the more I realise how long this ahs been going on- the first essay was clearly designed o upset PRS students and on the most purile subject matter; there was an incident where my friend and I went in to study on a reading week and there was a lecture, had we not walked past we couldn't have gone and he wouldn't have signed our ethics forms, thereby eliminating us from the assignment- he swore he ahd told us, but we asked around and he hadn't mentioned to anyone.

he's already on a warning after comments were made in the student reviews about him

Also, I watched every question in my class test last week being amrked, I would swear I got 18/20 and he wrote 16.

he also now can put a face to my student number after marking that in my rpesence, can I ask for my essays / exams to be modulated as I feel certain I will be downgraded.

I can't do it before the exam as it has to be on a certain form which I can't acquire until the office opens, which is when the exam starts. Therefore, I am going to e-mail my tutor now so she has a record.

Thanks.

Oh you must complain, that is outrageous

(mind you guess who made the comments in the review- at least some of them anyway, not the one about being a long way for thre loo if you had an UTI- I mean, wtf?)

Have e-mailed my tutor, so will wait for a reply.....

yes, e mail your tutor, and then see if the other 2 students will also fill in the forms detailing this whole story. Is the friend who was with you in the study week incident one of them? Or will she fill in a form about that one incident??

Best of luck in the exam, anyway.

Another lecturer here, agree that this is outrageous and should be reported.

Try not to worry too much about him marking your work in a hostile way though. Any half-decent university should either double-mark or moderate ALL work that counts towards a degree, and also have it reviewed by an external assessor. If your work is assessed anonymously, strictly speaking you should be assigned a unique identifier for the exam which would only be tallied with your student number after the assessment is complete, so his ability to identify you from the student number shouldn't be a problem.

Anyway, there is a union assessment boycott on, so he is a blacklegging scab as well as all his other sins!

Good luck with the exam.

Just to second WW's post that you should get some form of complaint in before the exam rather than after just so that it doesn't have the appearance of sour grapes. Don't worry about the correct form, just make sure there is a written record esp with the HoD and/or your registry.

As a "blacklegging scab" I'd say you must make sure it's all on record and if you can get the others to support you in this, then all to the good. These things are taken seriously, they really are.

Good luck and try not to let this kind of sloppiness make you lose your focus.

Well, we had the exam, and saw the School Office.

yes, he is blacklegging. We were in a class one day as he typed a grovelling letter to his head of school begging exclusion for penalties for striking as he had been such a good boy. Each to their own with industrial action, but he grovelled

Well the exam was HARD but i think I scraped in. Others didn't though, some eft after 30 minutes. 5 people agreed to complain.

So we went to the office where they had lost greivance forms but amde a note. Anyway, they telephoned him immediately it would seem. He came storming out running at us an hour later.... are you the two (there were three of us therre) who complained about me?
he then threatened to sue my friend whilst waggling a finger st her because she said questions when she meant incredibly concise subject areas.

The upshot seems to be that as he did it unpaid (???) hard luck, it's up to him. We were invited to the class, if we can't get there why should he care? In the old days we'd have got no help... (I did point out that was fine too, as long as everyone had a level playing field).

He then proceeded to complain bout the new schools sytem within the uni, whilst shaking with anger.

The upshot does seem to be the Uni won't be taking it any further but he guarantees us a pass(they're not double marked, no anonymous identifiers and he is doing them as we speak).
However, we felt it was quite clear he had received a supreme bo**ocking. he aslso BEGGED me to stay on in his class as I am apparently so talented (????). Um no thanks, not with you. Anyone else I'd have loved to, but I'll do extended Islam instead.

he managed to insult his bosses, the school, most of the (apparently stupid) counselling students, the (apparently mouthy) school rep and just leave us feeling total disrespect for him.

Plonker.

Oh the funny bit.... all the time we were chatting (arguing? whatever) the Uni photographer was taking photos for the prospectus. I can just imagine... 'First year mature students enjoying the sunny views as they discuss with their lecturer the recent grievance they have made against him' - LOL!

sorry but shocked at how this has been handled. it's irrelevant whether he was being paid to give this class. I would not be happy if this was me. I can;t imagine a decent university handling this so badly.