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Thursday 26.2.04 | COMPLETE panic time. I have to go for an aptitude test at the Foreign Office in about 10 days' time. Feck. Friday 27.2.04 Currently have tears streaming down my face and am shaking with laughter (mmmm, attractive, yes) at this, sent to me by the wonderful Kath - will put it on my permanent list of links on the left next week, but I want to draw some attention to it first... :-) Sunday 29.2.04 ERM, excuse me. The AUT is getting its markbooks in a twist due to the abysmally low rate of pay for lecturers. Fair enough. They are paid terribly. Have spent two days of last week on strike, their next plan, however, is to stop marking. Just stop. Not give students any feedback at all. Withhold all marks - courseworks, degrees, everything. This is in an attempt to rally students behind their cause. Apart from being an exceptionally stupid gamble (students are not known to support other causes unless they get some direct benefit from it, which they will not from the AUT strike), even if the students to decide to support the lecturers, let's look at their track record of campaigning: more than 5 years of protests about tuition fees, and, erm, the Government has just introduced top-up fees. You could say that, as a body of power, students are fairly weak. So in other words, all the next stage of the AUT protest is going to achieve is an enormous pile-up in marking, lots of pissed off students, and those (like me) who are taking their finals this year facing the prospect of having a lack of degree classification until the whole thing is sorted out. Not pleased. | ||
