This morning.
Trinity College, Dublin 2
Trinity students can expect to pay a flat fee of €450 for supplement exams, following a decision of the College Board …
The fees will be introduced from 2019 onwards and will mean students will pay the €450, regardless of the number of exams they sit.
Over recent months, Trinity has cut services and increasingly commercialised itself and its campus in a bid to combat the decline in state funding for higher education.
While the cost savings have aggrieved students and staff alike over the years, the introduction of a new and substantial fee, in the face of a chorus of opposition, is likely to frustrate students…
Trinity Approves €450 Flat Fee for Supplementals (Dominic McGrath, University Times)
(thanks Alan Bracken)
Paddy Prendergast and Patrick Geoghegan want to make TCD into Disneyland with students as a cute background feature. It’s an IBEC wetdream.
when I was there these demos were always led by someone with a megaphone and a trench coat.
Glad to see some things never change!
But they also always were the most annoying…
She goes to clown college. Wants to be a juggler.
Are you trying to be funny?
More a greatcoat than a trench, RF, but your eye is keen!
They should revolt and go to some of the world’s leading universities in North America!
Oh wait…
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/universities-to-be-allowed-to-hire-staff-on-up-to-250-000-1.3286314
And now they are blocking tourists going into the Book of Kells. Really well thought out form of protesting there folks, well done…
While we are looking out for the tourists, whats with all the drug dealing across from Christchurch. Every bloody morning for years. It must be one of the highest trafficked area for tourists yet the cops choose to ignore the same dead eyed crowd selling tabs.
This is for supplemental exams.
So if you miss/fail the first exam they are charging you to sit it again. If this is to offset the cost of running the second exam I can’t see why they are up in arms about it.
The other option is to fail the students and let them re-sit the entire year (how much us that €6K?)
ugh I see the fascists have arrived, education should be free, FREE FREE FREE what part of that is difficult to understand?
Why should re-sitting an exam be free?
Pass the exam first time – no problem!
Hey! I agree!
Down is up, up is down.
Spend less time protesting, more time studying.
Though I’m one to talk. I never protested OR studied much.
If someone is too thick to pass an exam the first time around then they should absolutely have to pay the costs associated with running a special repeat exam for themselves. Its hard to get a 1.1, its not remotely hard to get 40% in a college exam.
The money being spent to run those repeat exams could be used for far more beneficial services. Why should the rest of the student body (ie, the vast majority of students who manage to pass their exams) suffer to pay for the lazy minority who fail?
you must have passed lots of college exams with that level of critical scrutiny..
More stuff for free please!!
Does flat fee mean €450 for each resat exam, or €450 for resitting exams, regardless of how many you fupped up the first time?
I get charging for the the resit but €450 is a LOT of money for a student. could they not make it €150, which is enough to sting but not enough to cause an actual nervo?
(And before yous start, I passed all my exams the first time around.)
Flat fee means you pay €450 for 1 resit or 20. Doesn’t matter how many. You’d get better bang for your buck if you really went for it and failed everything.
Another proposal was to have a €250 per repeat exam (to a max of €1000).
But that would be unfair to someone that missed the exams for a good reason (as apposed to someone that didn’t study).
Protest seems to be over. Happy hour must have started…
Exams are just another oppressive patriarchal construct as a result the white supremacy of colonialism and thus, should be banned.
At least according to the deeply oppressed students of one of America’s most prestigious colleges, UC Berkeley.
Because of this, the Berkeley students demand an end to exams and instead to be given the opportunity of a ‘take home essay’, so they can do these non-exams in a “safe space”. Additionally, they accuse other students who do not support this take-home initiative of supporting white supremacy…. for sitting an exam as instructed!
All hail intersectionality theory and the unthinking victim drones it produces.
No, really…. see for yourself :)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=berkeley+students+demand+a+take+home+essay