Posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2019, at 0:26:36
In reply to Re: clash, posted by alexandra_k on January 31, 2019, at 0:12:57
The point is...
It would have taken them work to write the policy.
Auckand now has a policy whereby every student declined from undergraduate including Med and Foundations) courses is informed of their right to appeal, who to appeal to etc.
That information wasn't really freely available before.
I don't know that there was a policy...
I guess because it takes time for people to look at appeals and make decisions.
It would have taken time for someone to have figured out this policy now.
One thing they did (smart) was require appeals to be submitted by post. Email... You can attach formal letters. And that's helpful, actually. To have that distinction. Very obviously formal letter. Then more discussion / conversation / informal email.
Anyway... The requirement of a posted letter forces / encourages students to spend more time formulating it carefully and then they have to physically post it. You want them to sign for it (they respond within 10 days of having recieved it) so they have to pay like ten bucks to post it (in this f*ck*ng country with barely a postal service at all). Well.. you could send it with a 40 cent stamp, I guess... But it encourages people to not spam the system.
Yeah.
ANyway...
I see that appeals create work for other people.
And that often things are sh*t / crappy / unfair. That's right. They are. But do you have a better idea of how to make things better? Is it really workable? Really? Really really? PRobably not... Because smart people do work on these things... Maybe that's part of what VC's and so on do... Maybe they are smart and they do do their best / a pretty good job of it, actually. It is just that it is hard when the culture here... People mostly function by word of mouth and what people do and the implicit practices... How to get people to follow the rules. Yeah. Yeppers.
That's why sometimes you gotta focus on the small things you can do. The small changes. Trying to change the world it too big. To unweildy. To pie in teh sky.
I think I am sensible with respect to some sort of an understanding about things like that.
In my better moments.
I know it costs a lot to build quality housing. NZ is in a pretty rough position because of... I don' t f*ck*ng know... Something aout us trying to get the smelter happening becuase then maybe aliminum... And then maybe the structural component of the construction.... It is something about our lack of access to building materials that makes housing so freaking costly, here. The proliferation of wooden shacks.
Anyway...
Thesis writing. Back to it. Get it done. Once it's done that's a major load off. I can't imagine they will not accept it once it's submitted.
I mean... I can see them maybe dragging their fuckig heels on saying they accept it...
But it's take it or leave it at that point. And none of this 'pay us more money first' nonsense.
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