Kingston University - More Bad Press

Students at Kingston University are complaining that they are not getting their monies worth from their fees, because they say that their lecturers are not able to speak intelligible english.

“In this economy, what graduate employer is going to want someone with a 2:2 from Kingston?” he said. “I have run up £22,000 of debts and I have no hope of getting a graduate level job.” Another said: “One of the lecturers had real problems saying basic words – like ‘zero’, which he pronounced ‘chino’. That is confusing when someone is talking about economics".

There has been a marked increase in recent times of students complaining about the service that they are getting from various teaching establishments. Recently we heard about those students in the University of Bolton decided to give anonymous feedback on the poor feedback that they have been getting from their lecturers. Apparantly this caused such distress that the lecturers needed to contact their union. Personally I can't believe UCU actually kids themselves into belieivng that this is bullying behaviour on the part of the students. They ought to concern themselves more with the real problem which is that lecturers, trainers, and assessors are being so overloaded by the demands of the employer that giving feedback actually becomes a big problem.

Kingston defends itself by saying that in todays global workplace it is common place for large numbers of foreign speaking lectures to be employed by a teaching establishment. I think they said that 47% of their teaching staff was from a foreign country. Personally I think they have done the usual political side stepping that is common place in the halls of academia these days. It's not about where they come from, it's about their ability to speak English in the way their audience can understand, this is one of the first rules of communication. The transmitter has to transmit in a frequency the reciever can receive in or it all goes to rats. In which case the students are entitled to their money back and should get it forthwith.

Meetings of Death

Of course it is not clear what kind of meeting Carl Baybut attended. Whether it was a one to one meeting with his upline or a general meeting held by the Uni to advise lecturers on proposed changes, the fact that Carl took his life within days of the meeting does indeed speak volumes. Something scared him to death (no apologies for the pun)

If you don't beleive that it is going on in educational establishments read this article in the Daily Echo.

It's high time something was done about this. One life lost is one too many, not to mention all of the lives ruined by haphazard and disorganised management of our educational establishments. Believe me I have a lot of experience and I see it everywhere I go. The world of education is falling apart. There are two threats that the teacher has to defend themselves against. One is the threat of government. You can bet your bottom dollar that when governments start to tell educational establishments what they can and can't teach in terms of political content that scape goats will be made. It is happening now in as we speak. Lecturers are being villified and bullied out of posts because they try to appraise their students of the state of political machinations world wide. some have been labelled as terrorsits or insurgents. The other is when the group mentality within the particular organisation they work is so far up itself it will broker no deviation from the norm. So everyone sits around nodding their heads like those little dogs that appear on the luggage shelf in the backwindow of a car and anyone who dares step out of the norm and state obvious flaws in the systems gets squeezed out.