Posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2019, at 13:27:02
In reply to above for politics board sorry (nm), posted by alexandra_k on February 4, 2019, at 12:58:54
I don't know about the vc. I guess it depends how things go with the ombudsman. the vc of the other university seems to have given up... in the sense that he said i didn't have the right to complain to him, i cited Calendar regulations that said i did... he didn't respond to acknowledge that within 3 days.
i guess the ombudsman might be about help. about external help in seeing what to do...
it is a good start that people can appeal being declined from a program of study. becauase if the staff are informed that students can do this then they may be more likely to be respectful about who the offer the places to. i wonder how that awful lady would have justified not offering me a place (even though i was one of the most academically able). she probably would have said what she said to me: that kid's already good at something, she should go do that. if she actually said that to someone then that's when they get to say 'we are supposed to pick the kids most likely to go on to succeed... not aiming to pick the kids who will only scrape by, here, because they are even worse at everything else'.
that's the tall poppy thing of nz, all over. right there.
i guess the external people can check with the examiners whether they think the thesis should be failed or not. my supervisor doesn't seem capable of that. she would have me hang about indefinately until absolutely everyone in the university started hassling us about taking so long and started up about 'when are you going to finish your thesis!' after maybe 4 or 5 years of that i would be allowed to (only just) scrape through my 1 year qualification... only becuase people would be fairly fairly sure that after that i would really not go on to succeed at much of anything else.
i don't think the external people intended me to be failed.
i do think one of them was trying to teach my examiner how to supervise a thesis... but i don't think he would think that he couldn't sign off on the changes within 10 weeks...
there are competent people in this country. somewhere.
why haven't they noticed me?
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