Posted by alexandra_k on December 4, 2018, at 23:41:53
In reply to Re: thanks everyone, posted by alexandra_k on December 4, 2018, at 23:16:59
they're just swamped with undergraduate teaching in these days of 'everyone must have a degree'.
what used to be a place for intellectually curious people and so on has become a place where all the kids must go.
they aren't trying to sort them in any way. aren't trying to reward actual ability and / or actual hard work. we are more of a lottery than that. if you want hard work to be rewarded then here is not the destination of choice.
we embraced the low road... didn't want to limit the number of international students (for example) and teach them well / expect great things of them. we just wanted all the students. as many of them as we could.
the bottleneck is that we don't have people to assess the quality of their work. we can't do quality assessment.
people genuinely can't tell.
the arts degrees got longer and longer and longer... the students were fed some speel on how they need to be *brilliant* to get jobs and so on... that that brilliance comes from taking years and years and years on their theses. basically this idea that their phd is their magnum opus their lifes work. and then they kick at them and kick at them... try and make them believe they will need to work on it for more years than everyone else because they aren't as bright or as naturally talented or...
it's just a horrible awful nasty way to treat people that they supposedly care for and about.
whatever. evidence of completion by friday. then final alterations accepted within 10 weeks.
otherwise: my whole life is basically over. never can apply to medicine. me nill. new zealand one. great job new zealand! seriously... what can i say... what a f*ck*ng joke.
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