I think they should give you your money back if they are not gonna make up the days at a later date
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I really hope this is a joke.....but if it isn't....
I find it funny how you want your money back from tuition and not the knowledge you would have gained for the three class days you are missing. At no point did you bring up that the University should extend your semester by 3 days to make up for the time you are missing.
In fact they are selling you short by not teaching you the full number of hours they should to earn the credit. You should demand to be taught for those 3 days worth of time.
I really hope this is a joke though.
I find it funny how you want your money back from tuition and not the knowledge you would have gained for the three class days you are missing. At no point did you bring up that the University should extend your semester by 3 days to make up for the time you are missing.
In fact they are selling you short by not teaching you the full number of hours they should to earn the credit. You should demand to be taught for those 3 days worth of time.
I really hope this is a joke though.
I hope the next time you go to your professor for help, or if you ask the teaching assistant in charge of your tutorials a question after a class or tutorial is over, that he charges you £5 on the spot for spending 5-10 minutes of their time helping you.
Looks like some people took this a little more seriously than I.
thedude110, university in this country used to be FREE. The people currently running the country had the privilege of a free university education, yes they decided to charge for it. It was £1k for quite a long time, but beginning last year, each year costs a little over £3k. Obviously that's not including accommodation, parking, trips, photocopying and everything else the university provides. Hell, most lectureres don't even give out paper handouts, we have to print our own. They charge us more and more but give us less and less.
Thankfully I'm on the £1k a year, as I applied a year earlier.
thedude110, university in this country used to be FREE. The people currently running the country had the privilege of a free university education, yes they decided to charge for it. It was £1k for quite a long time, but beginning last year, each year costs a little over £3k. Obviously that's not including accommodation, parking, trips, photocopying and everything else the university provides. Hell, most lectureres don't even give out paper handouts, we have to print our own. They charge us more and more but give us less and less.
Thankfully I'm on the £1k a year, as I applied a year earlier.
University education in the UK is expensive because they decided to put every Tom, Dick and Harry through it. There are plenty of current courses that offer no siginificant benefit to the student whatsoever. The government need to accept that putting 50% of people through University doesn't make us a better/brighter country, and the sooner they put a stop to this the better it'll be for eveyone.
I'm sure I read it was going up to £6,000 a year next year or something.
There is something pretty morbid about UK Unis. All these people thinking it's going to be like American Pie but they end up in a tiny room in the cold eating beans and Monster Munch.
I plan to study maybe 2008 but not totally sure what to do. I'll be 25 by then. I'm glad I waited and didn't do Media Studies like I planned years ago.
There is something pretty morbid about UK Unis. All these people thinking it's going to be like American Pie but they end up in a tiny room in the cold eating beans and Monster Munch.
I plan to study maybe 2008 but not totally sure what to do. I'll be 25 by then. I'm glad I waited and didn't do Media Studies like I planned years ago.
Is going on the dole a right? Because without the ability to exercise aforementioned privilege that right is pretty much the only route left.
In this country the job seekers allowance is an entitlement that one has along with the right to work. A great many degrees confer no real advantage to the person studying them short of the 3 year delay on starting work and the sizeable debt acquired in the meantime. I think you'll find that plenty of work in this country does not require a degree, and if it does they probablively desire a good class of degree in a relatatively useful subject.
If I get no financial aid, my college costs will be around $35,000 a year. Plus that extra bit you mentioned - accommodation, parking, trips, photocopying, etc. £1-3k a year is nothing. You should be grateful that the cost is so low. The rest of us have to struggle through loans.
I would guess that 'circumstances beyond our control' or 'Act's of God' are covered in the contract that your girlfriend signed with the university.
As has already been said, ask them to extend the term by three days so she doesn't actually 'miss' any lessons.
By the way, did the lecturers get three days salary deducted for not working?
(But I feel this thread is a p!ss-take and deserves a
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As has already been said, ask them to extend the term by three days so she doesn't actually 'miss' any lessons.
By the way, did the lecturers get three days salary deducted for not working?
(But I feel this thread is a p!ss-take and deserves a
)