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.
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Statistically speaking, a disproportionate percentage of foreign staff are being sacked, subjected to disciplinary measures and otherwise forced out of their posts at Kingston. Could this be because the University knows that foreign workers have a tougher time prevailing in Employment Tribunal cases since their residence permits are often linked to their position at the University, and they are therefore forced to return to their country of origin, where they are then unable to proceed with a claim?
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