The electronics department has been forced to apologise after a furious lecturer blasted a whole cohort of students in a mass e-mail.
The message was sent to all second year electronic engineering students, and slammed them for not turning up to lectures. “Frankly I don’t give a toss whether you attend my lectures or not,” it says.
The lecturer goes on to say: “Just give a moment’s thought as to why I and my colleagues bother to give lectures in the first place.”
The head of the Department of Electronics, Jon Timmis, confirmed to York Vision he was “aware of the e-mail.”
Timmis said the message was “not expressed in a way that I could endorse” and that he would “discuss it with the author this week.”
He added: “In the meantime, as Head of Department, I apologise to everyone who received it.”
Student attendance may have dropped at the lectures because of the introduction of lecture capture. Last term the department entered talks to have ‘opt-out’ lecture recording.
Timmis was keen to emphasise the intention of the e-mail. “The Department of Electronics is concerned to ensure that students perform as well as possible in degree programmes; to this end, we are keen to impress on all students the importance of attending lectures,” he said.
We don’t have lecture capture in Electronics..
Either the lecturer should make the lectures more compelling, or students shouldn’t be so offended by what the lecturers say.
Or everyone should just shut their mouths and get along with their work.
the history department was doing this before it was cool