sorry laaaaaureenn but like dingo said it wasnt that simple im a mature student with 12 years IT industry experience before coming onto the course so you could say im a lot more mature and established than your average fresher who has never lived away from hime and the whole concept of university is exciting and full of late nights drinking and early morning starts. from my perspective i had come to the course to learn rather than loaf.
as i said the uni is a pretty big joke, hardly any of the course delivered what it said on the tin at the open day and in the nice pretty brochures. as for the proceedure for complaints there isnt one that will get you anywhere, at the start of my 2nd year i was working 1 day a week in the industry which then turned full time over the summer and then for 3rd year i just remained full time and did 1 day a week at uni. i chose to do this simply as regardless of what grade i got i was still going to have this position when i finished uni and how the course had gone so far i was of the mindset that i may as well just finish it rather than drop it for my 3rd year.
when i chose to do this i was told i would get the full support of the uni as i was work ing in the industry but what really happened was i got no support whatsoever. one other thing that happened was i got a meeting with teresa moore at the start of my 3rd years because of comments i had made on public facing intertnet sites with the intention of these problems being sorted out. again what really happened was i was put in the room for an hour promised the world but eventually delivered nothing. the whole point of the meeting really was to be told not to expose the uni for the joke it is and keep my mouth shut. it wasnt just me that was having problems the whole group had issues with the course and its shortfalls but again nothing happened of it.
dont get me wrong bucks has a few truely inspirational lecturers but it also has a lot more truely crap lecturers whos idea of marking work leaves little to be desired. one such incident was some group work we had in the 2nd year where we were told close to handing that we had to have no more than a group of 4 where we had a 5, this left us no choice but to split the groups for handin but everybody just did twice the work so 2 versions of the same wok were handed in. when it came to the marks one group got a 1st the other a low 2:2 when in reality the 2 pieces were slightly reworded versions of each other.
there were many other examples of this throughout the 3 years and quite frankly the course has been of no benefit to me in attempting to change careers which i have done completely off my own back and not with help from the uni. as for the comments about why did i not simply change to another course it wasnt that simple, im a mature student , this was my one and only chance of getting a degree and it was done off my own back without the support of mummy and daddy which im sure a lot of the people on here are getting. because of this maybe my expectations are a little higher than others or maybe its because i didnt look at uni of 3 years of my life where all i want to do is get pissed every night.
anyway im done trying to explain myself to a stroppy teenager.