UK universities need massive reform

Lecturers have **** all to do with the administration of you getting your cert, thus it is entirely possible (and likely) that they have been working their backsides off, regardless of you not having received your certification

The two are basically completely separate.

WOW! You still haven't got your transcripts? What a bunch of jokers!

But they are creating an image of the whole university working..... That includes student services and support.

Really have they been innocent though, in previous years they've taken some strong action to not work their backsides off from my experience.

They're likely being driven by the fear of not having students and losing their pension debacle.

And what if enrolment doesn't fall!?! 👏 👏 🤣

Does industrial action then come back on the table.

Well yes, because people need to toe the institutional line or lose their jobs. Come on, this isn't even deep analysis, you know how this works. Every academic I know has a special disdain for administrators, but you think they can tell you that publicly? Think about it for more than ten seconds.

If you think the strikes are about having a few days off, or an excuse not to work, then you are catastrophically deluded about first the nature of academic work and second the nature of the bloc that forced through the last two rounds of strikes (and who have this year basically all been voted off the UCU NEC owing to widespread disillusionment with the strike action).

Yes, the admin is ridiculous, yes they are slow. I am having an excruciating experience of my own in this same regard. No, this does not have anything to do with academic staff.

Let's face it'll be salty until i get whats owed to me at this point, yes OWED...i've been requested to pay back quite a hefty sum for it.

The fact that YOU you paid is irrelevant. I am sure there would have been issues too if universities in Germany or Finland or Norway, would have done the same. Public, private, or hybrid public-private institutions should do what the are paid for regardless if payer is the direct reciever of the education or the taxpayer.

The University of Edinburgh use a service whereby people needing evidence of a person graduating (e.g. employers) can use a webpage to verify. It requires evidence from the consenting person.

They were also fairly quick to send out degree certificates after the results came out (3 weeks.)

Nonetheless, it is definitely sensible to recommend people to take a year out. If you start in September you get;
- No freshers week
- Lesser uni social experience
- Fewer to none in-person teaching.
- Possibility of more strikes?
- Dubious online assessment.

I think it's the fact my uni pushed back results by a few weeks or has a later calendar... Alot of people graduated well before our official date of 24th July.

I'm likely so impatient because of my unique Timeline. Since my next uni starts in three weeks and I'm moving on Wednesday 😂.

But still in hindsight... Had i got my diploma and transcripts on graduation day as I planned.... I wouldn't be in this situation. So I'm kind of correct to be upset imo.

I'm sure everyone starting in late September or October is alot calmer.. Heck some are even starting in January 2021 due to covid-19 (Leeds for example).

I got my results a month later than usual due to covid, it sucked spending the entirety of the post-exam period worrying about results.

You're going to the netherlands to study? My cousin went to Groningen to study mechanical engineering.

My biggest fear this year as I head into 2nd year uni is being in a different city with a regional lockdown.

Some unis I’ve been incredibly lazy, I understand your frustration. What did you study?

university tuition is so unnecessarily expensive.

then again, where does the money go?

Just because your university is **** doesn’t mean every UK university needs reforming.

Just because your university is **** doesn’t mean every UK university needs reforming.

Haven’t you been given access to your HEAR?