Vision says…
The lack of support, information and simple aid the Politics Department has given to their own undergraduates following the loss of assessed essays is deplorable.
Unfortunately, freak and horrible accidents happen and no department could really account for a staff member’s car being broken into. The evil trivialities of the world cannot be placed upon the shoulders of Professor Matthew Festenstein, the Head of the Politics Department. However, when these things do happen it is the department’s responsibility to sort it out.
Politics undergraduates have been left behind in the sheer confusion of an administrative farce. Students have been given another date to submit their essays, but without any explanation of what happened to their work and whether they should be seeking to make improvements or changes to their essays.
Thumbs up to…
Rebecca Irwin and her new, innovative and amusing way of raising awareness, funds and a good old laugh for charity. The union and the university need to come up with and promote more great ways to do business.
Anyone who can make themselves look like Inspector Poirot, Salvador Dali or Charlie Chaplin with a simple (and yet effective!) pen and help a cause in the process deserves a jolly good slap on the back.
Just for you Rebecca, here are some suggestions from the Vision team. The Hulk Hogan – a lovely blond handlebar contraption for when you are in a wrestling mood. The Albert Einstein – for when you want a bushier upper lip and to rewrite the basics of theoretical physics. Or how about Ned Flanders – a simple yet helpful affair for when you wake up and just must do some good for the world.
Well done Rebecca. We praise your originality and hope you adopt some of our suggestions.
Thumbs down to…
The shoddy way the university has chosen to ship out maintenance of Goodricke to a private company at the expense of the university as a whole.
Through the simple hope of pinching a few pennies, the university has fundamentally abandoned its responsibility to its students and staff. As soon as private companies are introduced into the internal mechanisms of the collegiate system, the university management loses a vital link to the student body. Freshers are now having to suffer the full extent of the problems in this awful system. So far we have witnessed a kitchen fire which may have been due to an unclean oven, and now a disabled student is rightfully angry at the sheer tardiness of a maintenance system that doesn’t even clean baths when they become dangerously dirty and greasy.
Students are well-known for their unkempt image. But when our universities take part in this stereotype it is simply beyond reproach.