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Q&A Session - Safety Net
Do you have a question that you want answered relating to the Safety Net and/or how it's being managed by the University?
19 Jan 2021 17:00
How it works:
The question window will be open until
5pm, 19th Jan 2021
.
Any University of Plymouth student can submit a question relevant to the topic.
Questions can be up voted and down voted if you see other questions that you feel would be important to address on the topic.
Once the question window is closed, representatives will discuss the questions and present them to the University.
The questions will then be addressed in a video conversation between relevant student representatives and University staff.
Submit Questions
426
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446
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Why has no Safety Net been introduced to protect our grades? Things like extensions give us a bit of extra time, but they don't protect the quality of work we're expected to produce in a pandemic.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlotte Williams
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382
voters
Why are 4500 votes and countless testimonials not enough for you to understand this year is significantly harder than last year and a safety net is needed to protect our grades which have fallen 10%
Submitted
1 year ago
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Cameron Glenister
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309
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315
voters
You constantly said that online learning decreases results by at least 10% (studies show) so why is this not taken into account when our whole year is online? We need the same safety net as last year.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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298
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314
voters
What are the reasons for not providing a safety net this year when other Universities are and there have been and still are long standing, significantly distressing effects of COVID on students?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Olivia Yeadon-Ray
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278
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282
voters
It seems really unfair that we are going to be competing with people from other universities who have their grades protected with safety nets. Do you think this is fair?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Coral Bailey
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273
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315
voters
What is the £9250 actually being spent on?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Isobelle Smith
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230
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238
voters
Why isn’t there the same “no detriment” policy “to ease pressure” when we’re in the same situation maybe even worse after a year of restrictions?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlotte-Annabelle Holmes
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212
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218
voters
How exactly are the circumstances we are studying in now any better than they were in March? (Lack of study space, childcare, family death, stress, lack of resources, zoom teaching)
Submitted
1 year ago
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Summer Ashbury
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190
voters
Why did we have a safety net in the first lock down, however this time where circumstances are exactly the same, we aren't given the same opportunity?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amber Parton
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178
voters
How are you preparing for the student mental health crisis that will be created as a result of inadequate academic support?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Bran Malloch
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163
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167
voters
You say that you don't want to give us a safety net because it would affect the validity of our degree but what about the previous year who graduated with a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Antonia-Marie Nanyonjo
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166
voters
Will you be offering a refund to students who haven't been given the full uni educational experience? Most people have had to put up with online classes and no help
Submitted
1 year ago
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James Browne
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128
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146
voters
I have not been in one lecture hall this year, only experiencing online lectures etc. Why am I not being charged open university fees? The campus is not open for me, why should I pay?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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123
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137
voters
Why is the extension not been made automatic as I feel that the added stress of waiting and worrying about your reason being accepted really stressful
Submitted
1 year ago
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Sarah Bettison
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118
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124
voters
You say you want to protect the 'integrity of our grades' by not using the same safety net as last year but those graduates haven't had issues and other universities have implemented it again?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Amelia Farmer
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118
voters
How can you justify having no safety net? We are not getting the degree we signed up for, unable to access the library (and not every resource is online), no face to face lectures or tutorials?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rachel Holliman
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109
voters
You claim to care about mental health but refuse to listen to the plea of needing the same safety net as last year despite our year having objectively more disruptions?(in and out of lockdown, tiers)
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Amelia Farmer
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95
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105
voters
Why has it taken this long to ask us about safety nets?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Josh Fruin
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90
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94
voters
Why would last years safety net devalue our degree when we are already at a disadvantage from online learning/inadequate home learning environments?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Ellie-May Egan
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87
voters
How can you justify the fact we will be competing against other graduates who have a safety net in place? This isn’t us not wanting to complete our work, it’s us wanting protection of our work.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Roberts
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85
voters
Why has no safety net been put in place? Many mature students are currently home educating, whilst on placement (critical workers), and trying to produce work the same quality as before. I'm broken!
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rachael Pearson
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80
voters
Why is it the vice chancellor gets a pay rise, we pay full fees, with no safety net, and lower quality content and missing content, with reduced support even for students with disabilities.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Neil Bickle
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86
voters
The hardship fund only gives up to £500 to under 25s. That's not even enough to cover a month rent in Radnor. Is this your only support for students?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Holly Kingman
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voters
Other universities across the country have implemented safety nets for all students (University of Hull for example), why has this not been introduced at the University of Plymouth?
Submitted
1 year ago
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James Edees
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voters
I have had to stay home (away from Plymouth) to do my final year at university due to lockdown. Not every resource is available on the online library, so this is unfair. We need the same safety net.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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73
voters
The University have granted extra time but nothing to assist the quality of our work, which has suffered. Surely we should be protected from receiving grades below our previous attainment?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Elliot Wearne-Gould
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71
voters
after paying 3 time the price of the open university who specialise in online teaching what are we getting to justify that?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alex Butters
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voters
Why are you charging the full £9250 tuition and providing no safety net when it is clearly apparent that the quality of teaching online is just not up to standard.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Cameron Dunn
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65
voters
Why did I get preached to about how “watching lectures online reduces grades” in my first two years and now I’m being told that online learning is sufficient and no effect on grades! Manipulation?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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voters
Why are you failing to recognise mental health? This lockdown is more stressful because it’s uncertain and there feels like no hope. A saftey net would be reassuring that one thing will be stable.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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voters
Although it's of no fault to the university, this year has meant that many of us haven't had the university experienced we were promised, and have paid for. Will anything be done to reimburse this?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kayleigh Vallance
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voters
How is it fair that final year students have to complete an entire dissertation online with little support and no form of safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kirsty Richards
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60
voters
By law we can't use the library or the uni wifi. some of us have to look after elder parents and some have to home school children, why does the uni say nothing has changed to warrant a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alex Butters
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59
voters
Why are we expected to be used to the pandemic now, meaning we don't need a safety net? The situation is worse than in March - specifically the mental toll it's taken and how that's affected studies.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlotte Williams
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55
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voters
Why are you ignoring how burnt out we all are after nearly 12 month of covid disruptions, a safety net would help MH and stress as I'm currently watching my final year results burn into nothing
Submitted
1 year ago
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Bethany Milne
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voters
Does the university actually care listen to its students? Coz a nearly £300,000 yearly wage for the vice chancellor and no refund doesn't look like it.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlie Eggs
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51
voters
Would a decreased grade (up to 10% in many cases according to studies) not devalue our degree more than a safety net ?
Submitted
1 year ago
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George Lynch
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voters
explain how this year no saftey net is allowed when people are in the same situation as last year (childcare issues etc), if not worse situations (more unstable situations)
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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50
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voters
You say that you don’t want to introduce a safety net as it would “Discredit our results”. However, A-level students are now getting their predicted grades, but you’ll accept them in September??
Submitted
1 year ago
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Megan Hill
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48
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voters
Why have you repeatedly used the excuse that university students were "prepared" for a covid type situation and moving to online lectures when students were clearly not prepared for it?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Thomas Mahoney
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voters
We are suffering mentally due to the stress and anxiety of producing coursework under such horrible circumstances. A safety net still hasn't been confirmed as of January. What will you do about this?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jamie Walker
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voters
What do you say to the many students who have said they have not received this blended learning that was supposed to be implemented and have had only zoom calls but still have been charged over £9,000
Submitted
1 year ago
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Samuel Gray
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voters
For those in final year, almost half of our entire degree has been impacted by COVID and we are still not being given a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Kirsty Richards
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49
voters
Why doesn't the University understand that the students are not asking for the safety net just 'because' - but because they don't want a year of education to be wasted/hindered because of covid?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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47
voters
I'm a final year, left with no access to equipment, resources, labs or spaces to complete my dissertation, I am now months behind. Can you justify your lack of support for me?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Summer Ashbury
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40
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44
voters
How is this year costing £9250 when the same course on open university costs £3000. Where is all of my loan going?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Anna Cirant-Carr
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39
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voters
Why are extenuating circumstances not automatic like last year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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35
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37
voters
I have suffered from increase of stress/lack of motivation/no wifi throughout my entire third year - I know many others too. How is this adequate learning with no need of safety net when grades drop?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Ellie-May Egan
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34
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44
voters
Will a safety net be provided to support Masters students? We only have one year, a year which has been full of disruption, to make our grades count.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kayleigh Vallance
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34
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36
voters
Why was a safety net introduced last year and not this year? Despite being prepared for online learning this year, students struggle for a number of reasons out of their control, affecting their work
Submitted
1 year ago
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Bethany Spencer
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40
voters
Why hasn’t a safety net been put in place to protect our grades like the first lockdown? We need to know our grades are protected and can’t fall behind.
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Finn Purchase
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34
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34
voters
When defending not having a safety net, why do you repeatedly refer to the "blended approach" whilst a large percentage of students, including final years, have zero in person teaching?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Elena Palmer
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37
voters
why is it the VC got a pay rise but i got stolen from
Submitted
1 year ago
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James Browne
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35
voters
What is the difference between this lockdown and the March lockdown? If anything its harder now than in March. Why was the safety net approved then but not now? What's the difference?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Jones
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40
voters
As a university does your image matter to possible new students? cause it don't look like it
Submitted
1 year ago
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Isobelle Smith
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32
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34
voters
I am struggling more this year than I did last year. I feel a total need for a safety net, therefore I ask you to please consider a safety net this year. Why should we not get a safety net? Thanks.
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Megan Jervis
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32
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36
voters
Why am I paying 9250 pounds for on campus resources I can't legally access?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Baily Martin
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35
voters
Other universities have given students their top 60-80 credits. It will not devalue our degree as others are doing it, so why won't you? We are having harder conditions!
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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30
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32
voters
I have a dissertation to write and a severe lack of resources (including the old library archives)... is this not a disadvantage ??
Submitted
1 year ago
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Ellie-May Egan
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31
voters
What imagine does the university give by refusing student cry for help and not furloughing staff then announcing a pay rise to well paid management?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alex Butters
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voters
Since the traditional safety net is not being put in place. Is there going to an adaptation of it to give the students the safety they are asking for?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Caroline Williams
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28
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32
voters
How can you justify charging £9250 for student nurses to receive poor quality zoom lectures, no safety net and as well as expecting them to go out for free to work on the frontline of the pandemic
Submitted
1 year ago
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Anna Cirant-Carr
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27
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29
voters
If you keep stating that you care about the students during these times then why does mental health support and funding keep getting reduced?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Samuel Green
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27
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33
voters
Why have you continuously lied about student feedback and do you think this looks good for your reputation? Numerous universities have put in measures to protect students but you are refusing to.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Thomas Mahoney
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How can you say a safety net would devalue our degree when you wou still need to pass all the moduals which means we'd have all the needed credits anyway, just our best 60 will create this years grade
Submitted
1 year ago
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Bethany Milne
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28
voters
Why is there no safety net/no-detriment policy? Other uni's reintroduced it. Extensions aren't enough to protect grades as the prep for online teaching has no effect on student performance in lockdown
Submitted
1 year ago
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Max Bruce
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voters
My grades have dropped around 10% during this year due to no wifi, lockdowns, stress, having to look after a child that would be at school if not for COVID, no access to library. Give the safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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How will marking us on our av best credits devalue our degree, when we have to achieve that best in the first place? It will only help our mental states/stress/lack of resources
Submitted
1 year ago
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Ellie-May Egan
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29
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I am having to look after an under two year old due to her nursery closing and I'm still expected to produce the same quality of work? It's unfair - we deserve the same safety net as last year.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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27
voters
Why is a safety net not being provided even though we are paying full tuition fees and not receiving the most out of our education?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Carissa Ravalia
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25
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27
voters
Having a safety net will not devalue our degree when so many other universities are already doing it
Submitted
1 year ago
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Anna Cirant-Carr
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25
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27
voters
Last year Covid affected around 3 months, so normally around 2 modules were disrupted but the worst 3 modules where dropped. Yet, our whole year so far has been disrupted, why do we have no support?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Lucy Burdett
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24
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voters
How does the University feel about students having to falsify results just to produce a dissertation?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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28
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You keep stating that 'Well, you have a safety net!'. No. We want the same safety net as last year as we have had our whole year disrupted -and no, online learning isn't good especially with poor wifi
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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Why does the safety net affecting the value of our grades last year but that sidnt stop you implementing it last year?treating different years of students unfairly
Submitted
1 year ago
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Bethany Spencer
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Why is there a lack of safety net? Some of your students are now homeschooling their own children while also trying to still achieve the grades they need. Which is not possible.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emma Cain
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If you don’t want a safety net on grades, how do you suggest those who haven’t been able to fulfil their potential in their final year despite good grades in previous years proceed? Retake the year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Cherise Cupid
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You don't want a safety net to protect our degree but the fact that other uni's have reintroduced a no-detriment policy means we aren't on a level playing field so will you now reconsider?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Max Bruce
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Can a safety net where we can't fall below our average grade so fall be considered? (Students are showing a decrease in grades by at least 10%)
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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How can you insist the level of teaching is "the same as pre-COVID" when I am capable of getting ignored by a lecturer in a Zoom class a total of 8 times? The level of support is not the same.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joshua Richards
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It's clear all other levels of education have been changed occordingly (GCSEs and A-levels), so why not our degrees? Why do you feel it would devalue them?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Bethan van der Poel
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The mental health of students is being totally disregarded. Give us the safety net so we don't have to stress about not passing the year rather than sit as nervous wrecks, worrying.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Sarah Wilson
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plymouth uni always pride there self at open days on mental health for students and taking on all disabilities. I think the comments say it all.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Neil Bickle
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voters
Why has the safety netting not been reinstated despite the number of votes for this, what is preventing the safety netting from being reinstated?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alexandra Clarke
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How can you justify full tuition fees when 'blended learning' isn't even being offered to the majority of students right now.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Baily Martin
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voters
What is our £9250 actually being spent on?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kirsty Richards
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22
voters
Does the university care more for profit than their student's education?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Josh Fruin
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voters
I'm having to complete an entire dissertation and final project from my bedroom, with nothing but a Chromebook and dodgy WIFI. Why is there no support for us?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Summer Ashbury
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Will you be refunding students who have been unable to use your facilities we pay for to keep them running? I have not been able to use these for obvious reasons.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joseph Jones
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voters
How is it fair that this years graduates will have to compete against last years graduates that had the benefit of a safety net, when we’re in the same, if not worse position than last year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Anya Lewis
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Do you believe it is fair to cut significant amounts for staff at a disavantage to students and then give a payrise to the VC?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Otto Colman
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23
voters
What is going to be done about field trips that still aren’t going ahead yet still make up a huge part of module marks?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Julia Newman
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voters
It is unjust for last year to receive a safety net and for us not to. Especially when our circumstances are even more difficult with full online learning!
Submitted
1 year ago
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Aidan Rogers
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I have to work on the same table as my mum (she takes calls all day)—I can’t hear myself think! Tell me how this will not negatively affect my grade? More priv ppl w study rooms will do better than me
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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No safety net as it would affect the validity of our degree but we're expected to compete with other Uni's that have offered a safety net to there students. Why can't Plymouth give us a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Jones
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It has been scientifically proved that learning online decreases learning ability and so why is this not recognised in direct correlation to assignment quality
Submitted
1 year ago
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Matilda Nash
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voters
Lecturers have constantly stated over my past 3 years here that only learning from online lectures negatively impacts our grades. How does getting an extension resolve HOW we are learning this year?
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Emily Angell
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voters
I feel like all the emails about support we recieve are for show and the real help we need is not being listened to or reflected in your decisions, what do you think
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Matilda Nash
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20
voters
Other universities including bath spa are going to give their students their top 80 credits for this year- how is this fair
Submitted
1 year ago
by
Matilda Nash
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18
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18
voters
Would you agree that this year of covid has been arguably more difficult on students compared to last year, considering the constant uncertainty students (especially 3rd years) face?
Submitted
1 year ago
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James Whybrow
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Why have we not been giving the Safety Net when other Universities have given it out such as the university Leeds Beckett? If other Universities can, Plymouth should also.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amy Pyle
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19
voters
If the standard of our degree is so important to be protected, how come there was a safety net implemented last year? Are those who graduated last year at a disadvantage because of this?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Erin Holman
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If we have worked hard for the whole of our degree, how is a safety net which reflects our grades or our top credits for this year “not a fair” way of judging our final degree classification?
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1 year ago
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Matilda Nash
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How will you support final year science students who haven't finished their dissertation research yet due to the disruption but now have to change our projects as we can't go in the field or in labs?
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1 year ago
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Constance Edwards
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With multiple polls, emails and questions being sent out to students to ask for their opinion just to be shut down and felt unheard - will this be any different?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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What support are you putting in place for dissertations? Many students have had no help over summer, starting later, delays in data collection, yet the deadline extended by two weeks? It’s inadequate.
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1 year ago
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Louise Lawton
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As a third year now homeschooling children, I am watching my grades along with my future career slipping away.What is more devaluing? A safety net or three years equating to no job?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joan Baxendale
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What is being done to support students who required the lab and other university facilities for dissertations and projects which now can’t be completed as the facilities are closed?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Samuel Gray
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Will you reconsider saying yes to a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Jones
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How is it fair that we are expected to pay the full tuition fee when the uni are not providing the support and teaching that is expected of them?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alisha Lamble
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We had a safety net last year which was great but this year the situation is 10 times worse. Our mental health' are 10 times worse, our motivation is at a all time low, Why cant we have one this year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Tasmin Head
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Why does the uni keep asking students for what they want (a safety net), and continually not deliver, yet keep asking? It’s a waste of time, just implement it.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kate Cooper
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The university advertises an annual turnover of £249 million, with over 19000 students a refund of everyone’s fees would leave you with a turnover of £67 million. Why are you not considering refunds?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Laura Bentley
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Last year students had 6 months of standard University life before COVID-19s impact, and were given a safety net. We have felt COVID-19s impact this entire year, why wouldn't we be given a safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jordan Stenner
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Are you aware that a two week extension on a deadline doesn’t change the circumstances of a global pandemic or the fact that students still do not have the same access to facilities that they should?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Holly Peters
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Is a safety net where only 60/120 credits going to be considered?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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How can you expect student studying subjects like nursing and midwifery to produce the same quality of work whilst on placement during a pandemic, putting our families at risk and no f2f support?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jasmine Copeman
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Can you explain how our degrees will be devalued by a safety net as this is a statement you have made in your defence but have not actually explained what it means
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alexandra Bolton
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You should implement that we cannot fall below our average grade we've already achieved (meaning we've proved we're capable) and/or only count 60 credits of this year. It would not devalue our degree.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amelia Farmer
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If a Safety Net is introduced, will it only be applied to grades given after its put in place or will it also be put in place for previous grades achieved during this year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Trudy Roden
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Since colleges and high schools have had exams cancelled, why are we still having to do exams and coursework to the same standard even though our learning has been disrupted too.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Beth Hopwood
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Why can't ECs just be automatic? Living in a global pandemic seems like a pretty good reason to need an extension to me, and having to submit and wait for approval is stressful enough
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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How is the University comparing the situation we are in now to last year ? and how is it so different the students aren't entitled to some help and protection like last year?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Hannah Brown
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Why has there been no safety net on our grades despite the fact that over just the past few weeks many of us have had to deal with a lot of added a stress due to being back in lockdown
Submitted
1 year ago
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Megan Redmond
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Students mental health is deteriorating during this time. Why do you think we are still able to provide the same level of work when the quality of the lectures are not the same? Many of us are worried
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1 year ago
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Joseph Jones
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Why has midwifery never been ‘allowed’ to be a course taught at open university, yet we have had to deal with reduced/being taken out of placements and no face-to-face learning?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Thomas
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Why is the University of Plymouth, not listening to it students.
Submitted
1 year ago
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George Heal
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Were is the blended learning that the uni claims to be happening. I've seen online only, no blended learning
Submitted
1 year ago
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George Heal
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The university have stated they do not wish to introduce a safety net, because of the risk of devaluing our degree. Will future employers know the precautions the uni put in place?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Steven Mooney
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Why have you ignored your student’s pleas for the safety net we had in March? So many of us are deferring as we feel our grades and mental health are at risk.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Kelly Short
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With other university's offering safety nets of their own, how do you plan to address the discrepancies in grades from the this university when students are looking for jobs?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jamie Massie-Jones
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When will the university start addressing the issue of a safety net seriously and with meaningful action? Not a few extra days to do an assignment and repetitive statement releases.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Regan Cross
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Why does Judith get a pay rise when its not the right time when many students in her care are struggling to eat after paying extortionate rent. How can she justify her £288k salary? Why don't yo care?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Samuel Bradley
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Students with more income, good mental health, access to better technology etc will do better. Ones who are carers, parents, disabled, lower income etc will do worse. Will uni address this inequality?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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So far, the repetitive official responses from the Uni have been cold, robotic, meaningless statements to make us believe we are being listened to. Show some compassion. Give us the safety net.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Logan Read
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Why is there only 24 hours allocated for students to have a chance to ask about our concerns when all of our previous emails have been ignored? Why has it taken until semester 2 to respond?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Skye Toffoletti
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What is being done to support creative courses? We need access to Scott, not the library. We need access to the media hub, not computers. What is the university doing about these issues?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Catriona Dodd
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People are getting used to being locked down but not the isolation and effects on wellbeing. You need to provide more support than you currently are and look after your students, wouldn't you agree?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Kee
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How is this fair on students with additional learning needs? Online learning just doesn’t work for many people.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jasmine Copeman
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Why has this not been an absolute priority for the university and why has the university ignored all of the students concerns so far?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Ward Sarkhan
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So working from home, slow/ non-existent wifi, no place to work quietly and a pandemic where many students have gotten ill or self isolated will not affect someones work, motivation and grades?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Jones
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Just because certain facilities are open or will open after the lockdown it still doesn’t mean students can safely access them. How will you support those students that can’t get onto campus?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Daisy Laye
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What do you have to say to all the students that have deferred or are strongly considering deferral due to a lack of support from the university?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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How can the uni claim it is supporting students when their mental health support is so poor? It takes weeks to be seen by a counselor & even then students get asked to "just try breathing exercises'"
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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Why is there no safety net for students on taught Masters when teaching time has been reduced by 50% and is now provided entirely by prerecorded lectures?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Clare Elwell
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Is allowing students for summer referral whom have failed 80 credits really in their best interest when they have demonstrated they cannot do it?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rebecca Giffen
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While certain implementations of a "safety net" have been made we feel they are not suffice at protecting us against the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Is there anything else can be done?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Daisy Lish
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Our studies have been compromised due to being only online but we have all been working just as hard if not harder than last year so surely our grades should be protected with the previous safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Megan Redmond
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Why are we still being expected to produce the same quality of work when we have no additional help and having the disadvantages of lockdown as well?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Maia Crook
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Why are you dancing around the idea of the no-detriment policy/safety net when you know full well what student think?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Max Bruce
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As an institution plymouth university has largely let down its students, they're clear examples of successful safety nets implemented elsewhere, yet the 'saftey measures' at Plymouth aren't sufficient
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alistair Drew
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Why are we still being charged the full £9000 when we are all remote learning, where is this money going? We dont have a chance to use the resources.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charles Palmer
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As a final year student, the level of work we are expected now and before is the same. However the teaching level is much poorer because it’s online. Why are we still expected more than we receiving
Submitted
1 year ago
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Umida Alimukhamedova
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If our lecturers are given excessive leeway with marking coursework, where is that same compassion for students submitting said coursework?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Raisha Gibbs
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How do you expect student ambassadors to promote this institution at open days, call centres etc. without lying? How will they be able to say the uni will support their students? ECs are not enough.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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We are having 2 lectures a week which is alot less than previous years and we are being charged 9k for it yet the open university charges significantly less for delivering the same if not more.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rhian Graham
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Why have you waited to discuss the safety net until AFTER most exams and coursework have been submitted for semester 1?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Isobel Meatcher
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Is the safety net for all students including those in healthcare degrees e.g. medicine, dentistry etc.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Sneha Saji
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The safety net is important especially when students grades will be significantly negatively effected by online lectures and exams, how is the university going to address this effectively?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Ward Sarkhan
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Why has a safety net not been tailored for students who have children at home, particularly if children are young and/or have disabilities that means that you cannot leave them alone.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jenny-Lee Grant
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Why are you refusing to implement the safety net even when the situation has not changed and is possibly worse than March 2020?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Toni Moyle
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My course was due to go on a trip this year to the Bahamas- paid by our tuition fee. This has now been changed to Slapton- which is clearly far, far less expensive. Where is our spare money going now?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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Why do I still have to pay £9250 for a full university course when i'm not getting what i've signed up for? I'm holding up my end of the deal, why aren't you, where's my support?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jack Taylor
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Can we get a full breakdown of where our £9250 is going this year? We pay it- we deserve to know where it goes.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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Why has a safety net/ no detriment policy not been implemented which allows final year students to achieve their avg % to mitigate the effects of Covid and poorer teaching? Seems like you don't care!!
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rory Johnson
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Other universities are implementing protection such as York reweighting 3rd year to be less % of the overall degree and increasing the 2nd year % (for 3rd years) to account for impact. Why can’t Plym?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Lucas Voss
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10
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Why is there no safety net when taught Masters students have had opportunities for submitting work for feedback severely reduced?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Clare Elwell
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13
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Why do you think the saftey net you have provided is enough? It’s a half attempt (if that)
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chelsie Pearce
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As international students, we pay more tuition fee, but don’t getting the full learning experience as previous years, why are we not getting any refund and reduced fee when I don’t get what I paid for
Submitted
1 year ago
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Crystal Wong
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I understand that elements of the 'Safety Net' have been implemented, but why have the university used this as a cover when they have been avoiding implementing further measures to protect students?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlie Atkinson
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how can we be expected to produce the same standard of work as previous years when they were granted face to face teaching and supporting, we were told online learning degreases grade outcome!
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amazon Doble
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My tuition fee pays for the laboratories I am entitled to use for my education in biomedical science, since I have not been allowed to enter the lab once in 10 months where is my refund?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Amazon Doble
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Dissertations have been disrupted with many of us having to start again due to new rules&with less support from staff than previous years got. The current safety net isn’t enough,why won’t you listen?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Coral Coutts
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9
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Will the university be implementing a safety net around assignment grades, especially for 3rd year students?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlotte Jakes
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Uni (in frequent survey): are we supporting you enough and what can we do? Thousands of students: no we feel overwhelmed and need the 2020 safety net. Uni: no.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Charlotte-Annabelle Holmes
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How on earth do you expect us to produce the same level, quality and quantity of work amidst this pandemic when circumstances are extremely hard?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jessica Fahy
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Now that other universities are implementing a safety net, are you not disadvantaging Plymouth students?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Chloe Carr
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10
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The library isn't that useful for creative students, we need the workshops open, why aren't they open ?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joseph Wollerton
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12
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If a safety net were to be implemented this year, what would that entail? Would it be the same as last year or would different adjustments be made?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Louise Tuck
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8
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How come we have had no adequate academic support to secure our grades when we can't even access the books we need?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Oliver Chaplin
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8
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Expected same level of work , even though no email replies constant IT issues, as an International student I just feel like University just thinks we are just a bag full of money
Submitted
1 year ago
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S Tajwar
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I echo many of the previous questions. Why has a safety net similar to last year not been put in place. Summer referrals are not a reasonable solution when you have children.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alona Challis
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Where is the consideration for masters students? We have one year to make count – one filled with stress, sub-par teaching, unachievable expectations, 10+ hrs/day staring at a computer screen.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Logan Read
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We are in the middle of deadlines and exams now. Why has it taken so long to get to this point and if there are any changes to the policy, what impact will that have on already submitted work?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Samantha Evans
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Why has little/no consideration been given to allied health/medical students who are providing vital support in hospitals who are still expected to produce high quality academic work?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Rebekka Sharp
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Why are we still being charged £9250 for tuition even though many are not able to return to campus at all this year, and online learning sucks anyway.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Toni Moyle
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Why should we be expected to apply for an Extenuated Circumstance when we are already suffering with mental health and feeling stressed with deadlines in this lockdown?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Melissa Wright
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How do you plan to help those of us who are key workers and having to work extra hours due to covid?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Lauren McBrearty
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I feel like barely any of these questions will be addressed even though they cover a broad range of topics- I've lost all faith in this uni that they genuinely care about their students. Performative.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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Why are you not helping us at all? Especially us key workers who are having to work extra due to covid
Submitted
1 year ago
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Lauren McBrearty
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We are paying £9000 for online courses and emails for lectures are taking ages to respond. Why is the uni reluctant to provide a saftey net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Alexander Pile
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Why are parents not being considered? Now juggling working from home, Uni and 30+ hours of home schooling. Where is our safety net?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jasmine Hammond-Hart
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You have come out and said ‘You care about your students mental health’ but yet, won’t reintroduce the safety net that so many Plymouth university students have asked for. How can/do you care at all?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Talaina Sullivan
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University says it downgrades our degree standard because we dont care about student mental or physical health, let them suffer for choosing us. Thats how the safety net is justified , right ?
Submitted
1 year ago
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S Tajwar
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Witnessing the effects of COVID-19 on the competitiveness of the job market for 2020 graduates, how can it be justified to offer no safety net for 2021 graduates who’ve been impacted even more?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Windsor
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Why has no saftey-net been introduced, when the pandemic is worst now than in March? We as students need help from the university to protect our grades.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Montana Wright-Sharp
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How does the 'safteynet' work for postgraduate students, particulally those who begun their studies amidst the pandemic and therefore have no 'baseline'?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Jade Ryding
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If a safety net is introduced will this be applicable to taught masters programmes? We are expected to produce better quality of work than undergraduates with poor online resources and little help
Submitted
1 year ago
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Molly Roberts
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At what point is the line drawn for creative courses who simply cannot work online, who require the use workshops for learning? Some courses simply cannot be taken online.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Oscar McNaughton
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For courses that require labs and workshops, why have our deadlines not been changed automatically to times when we’d be more able to access these? They were already hard to access due to COVID-19.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emina Sora
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Extensions on coursework deadlines are only beneficial for certain courses, what has been done to help people in exam centred courses when the quality of teaching has been much lower?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Tiarnan McKeever
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As a lab-based student who hasnt stepped foot on campus since March, how can you reasonably believe my education is "blended"? How am I expected to find employment without essential skills?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Raisha Gibbs
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Why has the no detriment safety net not been implemented when other universities have? Why do you think it's fair that we will have lower grades due to the lack of support?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Gage Millen
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Why are you simply disregarding the severity of mental health among your students? That reason alone should surely out-way your reasoning for not implementing a safety net.
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joseph Robinson
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Why are you not supporting us, especially final years, our mental health is struggling?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Lauren McBrearty
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As a third year, now homeschooling two children, slowly watching my grades fall - without the my future career is now in jeapordy,
Submitted
1 year ago
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Joan Baxendale
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Uni is only doing this so they can say they have asked for students opinions. They're not gonna do anything despite the masses of students struggling. Is this just to protect your image?
Submitted
1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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Many higher universities have safety net, last year they got 1 and half sem had it , We as final year students, the stress the workload and all , still How come safety net is not justified ?
Submitted
1 year ago
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S Tajwar
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Does university even care about us students? How is it justified no have safety net , who is that gonna downgrade our degree while last years had it ? Why best 3 credits are not taken last year ?
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1 year ago
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S Tajwar
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Not having a safety net just shows university not caring for student ? I cannot see any other reasons !!!
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1 year ago
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S Tajwar
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How do you expect me to write a dissertation with a dodgy internet connection, a house with 3 other people working from home, bad mental health but stuck home without much support? Yet no safety net?!
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1 year ago
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Alexandra Mackaness
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Since you are adamant that this year won't have the 2020 safety net , will you be pushing for better online teaching AT LEAST? Some lecturers are so incapable of using zoom & won't reply to students
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1 year ago
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Emily Angell
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How do you justify the £9250 fee with minimal resources, only having zoom seminars for a vocational degree?
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1 year ago
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Mawgan Whitcombe
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I’d like to know what our fees are paying for as many of my cohort asked for printed workbooks, as per previous years, and were told no. Meaning more time spent staring at screens. Great.
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1 year ago
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Naomi Sargeant
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How exactly are conditions different March 2020 than now and why aren’t our grades being protected?
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1 year ago
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Danni Cook
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As a Student Ambassador I can no longer tell new students that Plymouth Uni will give them the support they need without lying through my teeth. Your students are your priority! Listen to us!
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1 year ago
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Li-An Stanley
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WHY NO SAFETY NET?, you are discriminating against those of us with learning disabilities, who now have extreme screen fatigue and are struggling with ever increasing stress and worry about our grades
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1 year ago
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Fiona Foster-Weir
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How are you aiming to cater for DSA and other disadvantaged students? Many struggled before COVID with extra help in place (extra time etc), all of this has now faded. The support is appalling.
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1 year ago
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Louise Lawton
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How are we expected the same level of work when we had face to face teachings, whereas now half of the time students can’t get into their online lectures due to lecturers not understanding zoom
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1 year ago
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Umida Alimukhamedova
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I’ve not been only uni once as my course has been 100% online since September how do you think this is worth my money?
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1 year ago
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Chloe O'Shea
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Why are you saying that the safety net means the degree will be lesser? What about students from last year who graduated with the safety net? What about other unis who have it in place?
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1 year ago
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Caitlin Parker
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The EC was changed, emails state administrators are inundated with applications - wouldnt the previous safety net (10days auto-extension&non-submission similar to ec) benefit the uni&students?
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1 year ago
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Kira Gough
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1-2years we were preached looking at things online would not be enough and has shown lower grades.Suddenly my FULLY ONLINE course sufficient and will not affect my grades why the change of preach?
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1 year ago
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Thalia Pelegrin
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What about our mental health? A lack of motivation, lowered moods, feeling isolated, real feelings and concerns! A safety net(average of grades) to help protect our grades and mental well-being! Help!
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1 year ago
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Cerys O'Connor
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Is it true the uni made £41m profit last year and has lost 600 staff in 2 years? If so why haven't we been given the same support as Exeterand a safety net based on individual previous grades?
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1 year ago
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Julia O'Shaughnessy
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If other universities have offered a safety net for their students, does this now leave us at an academic disadvantage vs students in the same graduating year?
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1 year ago
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Michelle Fenix
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What protection is being afforded for final year students doing their dissertation with little/no support from the uni (not a representation on lecturers, they’ve been amazing!)
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1 year ago
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Ellie Massie
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Without a safetynet we'll be competing against students from other unis with a Safetynet for the same job. The employer will just hire those with the better grade. How aren't we disadvantaged?
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1 year ago
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Amy-Leigh Shepheard
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Why are we always told we won't do well if we don't attend face to face lectures, yet this year we are suddenly told online lectures are apparently just as good? Seems convenient
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1 year ago
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Fiona Harris
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Why were last year given a safety net, yet they had at least half of their term time face-to-face, and most courses this year have had no face-to-face teaching at all? It doesn't add up.
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1 year ago
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Lauren Pitcher
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How do you expect me to write a dissertation of high quality when the support I’m receiving is of very poor quality? If I receive a poor level of education you are going to get a poor dissertation.
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1 year ago
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Bethany Chandler
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In pre-COVID years lecturers emphasised the grade detriment for online learning to in person. We are now in this situation; do you believe extra time is enough to keep the same standard of work?
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1 year ago
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Victoria Miles
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Will postgraduate courses be protected or helped? How? It seems like the uni has taken our money and ran, we could have done an OU course for a slice of the price and more support.
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1 year ago
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Rebecca Spencer
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How is it fair to compete with others who have a safety net? Especially when the majority of employers look at the grade not how it was calculated.
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1 year ago
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Megan Dyer
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I went to one in person lecture. We just joined the zoom call from the lecture room so I might as well have stayed at home. How is this not a huge disadvantage to students?
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1 year ago
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Baily Martin
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With most societies and sports not possible to run my mental health has gone down signficantly which is heavily effecting my work. Why isn't a safety net reimplemented to compensate the drop in grade?
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1 year ago
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Josie Hales
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I would echo what others have said that the current safety net provisions do too little. Will you reconsider implementing a policy of ‘no detriment’ as in March?
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1 year ago
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Daniel Braund
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We appreciate the extension for the extenuating circumstances. But the no detriment policy would be much more beneficial especially for people who suffer with mental health.
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1 year ago
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Katie Smith
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Why has no additional help been brought in to protect grades for students on practical courses? We cannot do what the course has promised because in some cases it’s ILLEGAL
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1 year ago
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Catherine Brown
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Will these questions be answered with meaningless templates?
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1 year ago
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Baily Martin
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How do you plan on helping us with assignments?
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1 year ago
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Lauren McBrearty
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Are we getting any difference with marking since the teaching isn’t like normal?
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1 year ago
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Lauren McBrearty
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Why are we being left? Home schooling, online learning, assignments equals not enough hours in the day and a very stressed mother and wife! Please show us more support than a 10 day extension.
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1 year ago
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Nicola Shakespeare
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Why won’t the university reintroduce the safety net? Students are not getting the learning experience they deserve. Lack of childcare, poor quality housing, etc impacts grades. This must be considered
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1 year ago
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Rosie Young