Hi David

I quote from the JISC Mail site for this list "This list will provide a discussion forum for people interested in external examining issues". Though it has largely become a channel for advertising positions and it would seem like that is appropriate and useful. It is also appropriate and useful for people to engage in discussion and debate here as well.

All the best.

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David I Reid

25 September 2016 at 09:00

Hello.
With respect, this is a server for EE adverts. While I am interested in these kinds of questions and debates could you possibly create or suggest an alternative online space for them? At the moment it feels an imposition to receive these emails.
Thank you.
David.

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Geoffrey Darnton

25 September 2016 at 07:18

...oh, the stupidity in adverts for EE posts can have additional stupidities - there was an advert here recently for an EE requiring applicants to have a PhD! That was for an EE of regular programmes, not for appointment as a PhD examiner - how stupid is that? How on earth can the D-Level descriptors have any impact on competence to be an external examiner? - and that advert was from a university which of all entities should understand how incredibly narrow some PhDs are and the set of transferable skills in the D-Level descriptors is the narrowest set of transferable skills in all the level descriptors......I really worry about academics or academic managers who write adverts containing requirements like that.....!

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Roy Hanney

24 September 2016 at 22:54

Which came first the chicken or the egg?

The UCU boycott aside, the insane logic of needing to have experience before being allowed to apply is stupidity at its most inane.

Even a trained monkey could work that one out.

Roy Hanney

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