posted on Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:12 PM
by
paulfp
AUT Assessment Boycott Petition
http://www.aut-boycott.co.uk/
As many of you will be aware, university lecturers all over the UK are taking
part in industrial action which recently involved a one-day strike, but now
they are taking part in a boycott of all assessments, meaning that they are
refusing to mark any essays, exams or coursework, or to give any feedback on
such work.
By the AUT's own admission, the assessment boycott will cause "millions of
students [to] be left with coursework unmarked, lectures and seminars
cancelled, and their exam programmes thrown into chaos."
This means that students will not get marks or any recognition for the work they
do, so they could fail their degrees and language students may not be allowed to
go on the year abroad due to not having passed 2nd year. Students get into
enormous debt paying huge tuition fees, and now we aren’t even getting what
we’ve paid for!!
To show the unions and the lecturers that we feel very strongly about this
unfair treatment and the possible implications, please join in the campaign
against this boycott and sign your name on the petition at
http://www.aut-boycott.co.uk/ and get everyone you know to do the same!
Please, please forward this email to EVERYONE you know and urge them to sign the
petition and pass the email on! In the true style of all forward emails, if you
do not send this email to at least 10 people within half an hour, you may fail
your degree!! ;-)
http://www.aut-boycott.co.uk/