Comments on: Lecturer Strikes http://www.nathandrew.org/2006/03/23/lecturer-strikes/ The random ramblings of the Nath kind... Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mikey (came to your site from Ghosty's) http://www.nathandrew.org/2006/03/23/lecturer-strikes/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Mikey (came to your site from Ghosty's) Wed, 05 Apr 2006 09:30:53 +0000 http://www.nathandrew.org/2006/03/23/lecturer-strikes/#comment-25 Nice suggestion Ghosty, however the Law Clinic would not be able to help, owing to a conflict of interests. While it may in theory be run by students it is for the most part overseen by qualified solicitors who also lecture and, if I remember rightly, took part in the strikes two years ago. I think the aims of the strikes are honourable, and with all the extra money going into higher education through top-up fees and the like it is only right that a traditionally underpaid vocation should finally get the funding it deserves. However I too feel that this should not be at the expense of students. Marking coursework is a vital and fundamental part of their role, and suspending their services at such a crucial time in the year will serve only to antagonise rather than garnering any form of sympathy. I object to the NUS's solidarity with the strike, but then again I also object to the automatic assumption that I want to join an organisation which seems to most to be one large talking shop as soon as I join university. Rather than having the option to 'opt out', when was I ever asked if I wanted to opt in? Nice suggestion Ghosty, however the Law Clinic would not be able to help, owing to a conflict of interests. While it may in theory be run by students it is for the most part overseen by qualified solicitors who also lecture and, if I remember rightly, took part in the strikes two years ago.

I think the aims of the strikes are honourable, and with all the extra money going into higher education through top-up fees and the like it is only right that a traditionally underpaid vocation should finally get the funding it deserves. However I too feel that this should not be at the expense of students. Marking coursework is a vital and fundamental part of their role, and suspending their services at such a crucial time in the year will serve only to antagonise rather than garnering any form of sympathy. I object to the NUS’s solidarity with the strike, but then again I also object to the automatic assumption that I want to join an organisation which seems to most to be one large talking shop as soon as I join university. Rather than having the option to ‘opt out’, when was I ever asked if I wanted to opt in?

]]> By: Ghosty http://www.nathandrew.org/2006/03/23/lecturer-strikes/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Ghosty Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:53:10 +0000 http://www.nathandrew.org/2006/03/23/lecturer-strikes/#comment-20 I have to say that I am all in favour of the lecturers getting a fair salary, as I am with all those who deserve it. What pisses me off is that the sodding thing is affecting me. I know that the exams are set and that there is no problem there, but when asked about marking the exams I get told "Well, we cant speculate" I say, if I do not get my degree after so sodding long then I will not be happy. Surely if thats the case it would be worth a few of us contacting the Law Clinic about suing for loss of earnings (as we wouldnt be able to start our jobs without a degree) Grrrrrr! I have to say that I am all in favour of the lecturers getting a fair salary, as I am with all those who deserve it.

What pisses me off is that the sodding thing is affecting me. I know that the exams are set and that there is no problem there, but when asked about marking the exams I get told “Well, we cant speculate”

I say, if I do not get my degree after so sodding long then I will not be happy. Surely if thats the case it would be worth a few of us contacting the Law Clinic about suing for loss of earnings (as we wouldnt be able to start our jobs without a degree) Grrrrrr!

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