tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post7641461176623902458..comments2024-03-24T09:13:28.758+00:00Comments on The Plashing Vole: What DO you do between May and October?The Plashing Volehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021407602157515927noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-53126958212562215392013-07-08T10:58:10.534+01:002013-07-08T10:58:10.534+01:00I'd also add teaching - study abroad courses, ...I'd also add teaching - study abroad courses, doing taster sessions in schools, etc. <br /><br />And - a fairly new one to me - counselling a LOT of students about their grades and performance. If those same students had spent as long working on the assessment as they do complaining/worrying afterwards about their possible classification... <br /><br />for students in the summer - in some ways I am sympathetic to this though much less so when students complain that they don't have time, in termtime, to do their course reading - it's what the long vacations are for (at least in Humanities subjects). <br /><br />We used to teach for a lot more weeks at my University. The main reason we are changing this to a shorter 'industry standard' term structure? Because the government actively encourages, through its performance monitors on completed degrees, University years to finish early in the year. organic cheeseboardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-30142684291942748962013-07-08T09:56:30.632+01:002013-07-08T09:56:30.632+01:00You've put a smile on my face this morning and...You've put a smile on my face this morning and I thank you for that, hehe. Did you know you have a future in comic writing? I recognize so much of what you describe that my nodding has turned into titubation. I could add a few to that list, but am in danger of letting the palpitations get the better of me today.<br /><br />As for students, well, why don't you start on that reading you complain about not- having-time- to- do during teaching time, expand your horizons and read those books which will turn you into the erudite eloquent graduates you are meant to become.<br /><br />A grumpy-old-woman-without-a-key-to-her-new-office-and-a-pile-of-re-sits-to-mark-a-pile-of-reading-to-get-through-and-an-article-to-finish-before-the-end-of-July-module-guides-to-write-reading-lists-to-update-etcetera-etcetera-etcetera-etceteraAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-27230471886841752022013-07-07T13:10:05.317+01:002013-07-07T13:10:05.317+01:00Come on - we all have worked with members of the c...Come on - we all have worked with members of the country club set - who are not research active, do no service and most certainly are not spending their summers updating lectures. Hell, I am not spending my summer updating lectures - I am writing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6153845628469776909.post-87966546642629515852013-07-05T22:54:48.140+01:002013-07-05T22:54:48.140+01:00Yes but that doesn't answer what the students ...Yes but that doesn't answer what the students are supposed to do all that time? Why aren't degrees condensed with finance being so tight?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com