Given your average lecturer's approach to admin matters, the option of
not marking the scripts is almost impossible to enforce unless you
confiscate the script from the exam room. Then you have LOADS of ad hoc
marking and decision making as and when each student pays up, which is
academically dubious.
The option of trying to bar them from the exam room leads (in my
experience) to massive hassles:
"You can't go in, you haven't paid" "yes I have" "no you haven't" "yes,
I paid 5 minutes ago and have lost the receipt" etc etc.
We've now moved (as of yesterday!) to:
- sit the exam / do the courswork in the normal way
- mark the exam/coursework in the normal way
- consider at the exam board in the normal way
- release the transcript/results in the normal way
- put on the results/transcript something like
"You will not be permitted to resume your studies / receive your award
until you have fulfilled your other commitments to the University".
So the only sanction is refusal to re-enrol or to confer awards; both of
these do not fall foul of DP legislation.
john
Charles Christacopoulos wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems to me that that we should not mark exam papers at all. I will have
> a meeting with our Academic Secretary to see what he thinks. There are
> implications such as:
> - if the paper is to be marked at another time, when? (12 months time)
> - will the staff who taught the course be still around
> - what about the need for external examiners.
>
> The alternative that had been suggested some time ago (I can find the msg if
> anyone needs it)
>
> - mark the papers
> - disclose the marks
> - submitt the name of the student to "bad debtor" companies.
>
> I am thinking along the lines of:
> - If asked can we give a statement stating the marks and also stating clearly
> that the student "Has not been awarded a degree".
> - If employers ask us for verification (they are not the subjects) we don't
> have to give them the marks, all we would have to say is "No degree has been
> awarded".
>
> Any comments please, so I can take it up with the man who may have the
> answers.
>
> Regards
> Charles
>
> PS. I will tell you what conclusion - if any - we come to.
>
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> Dundee DD1 4HN, (Scotland) United Kingdom.
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