My son, a third-year student, stands to lose out yet again. First, when he took is A-levels, having been sent home unceremoniously due to COVID and having his mock results declared as his A-level results. He, like so many third year students was also not able to have a meaningful and enjoyable university experience, again due to COVID, and now this. What a mess!

Im in this position right now. Can't even begin to tell you how stressful it is for us students. Hours and hours of work for absolutely nothing. It's the most anxious I've been in a while.

@slayer2608

Жыл бұрын

One of my assements they told me I need to redo before I pass onto 3rd year and they’ve been ignoring all my emails kindda wanna cry lol

@charlottematthews6268

Жыл бұрын

I’m sorry to hear that :(

@ed8001

Жыл бұрын

@@slayer2608 that's messed up. I was in the same position in year 2 and they luckily made me re do it alongside my year 3 modules

@tcrijwanachoudhury

Жыл бұрын

Same, over half our classes were cancelled due to strikes why tf are we paying 9 grand for £4k worth of education 💀

@leestalker8256

6 ай бұрын

80% of degrees are worthless

I am in this position too, 4 years of hard work and now with £72,000 in debt with no idea if I am going to get a proper degree classification and plus my uni life ruined by the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 restrictions, makes you think whether getting a degree was worth it? Obviously lecturers should get properly paid, but this is not the way.

What a disgrace… how could they live with themselves. The students should sue those involved

@guitar999able

6 ай бұрын

I bet the student loans company are inundated with people contemplating suicide.

How's he comparing it to A&E work? What a joke. The papers will eventually be marked. Not the lecturers' fault - start treating workers properly.

@damiagunbiade

Жыл бұрын

The point is they will be marked in October. So for some students they won't get any grade until later in the end when maybe they should have finished in July. It's not their fault is it! They didn't ask thr unis not to pay the lecturers right. They should have their work marked. I agree the government should get around the table and work with the unions to get a deal.

@lucieirl

10 ай бұрын

You realise it’s holding back thousands of peoples entries onto Masters/into jobs requiring proof of qualification/updating their visa if international students etc. its not just oh we have to wait a bit longer its fucking over the students who have ALWAYS supported strikes and now when it matters most we are being left out to dry. As horrible as it is to say, at least staff have their accolades and experience behind them to seek new employment if the uni does not provide enough, undergraduates with no degree and minimum job experience due to COVID and full time degree to complete are screwed.

Not being funny but during covid I got to see my lecturers houses, they aren’t short of cash that’s for sure. Absolutely ridiculous

@joanne4758

Жыл бұрын

Wow - you could take that up as a professional job. summarise a persons financial situtation by looking at a room. I don't think it's been done. Go for it.

@shannondavis183

Жыл бұрын

@@joanne4758 the fact that you think I’m basing that on a single room and nothing else is comical.

How about paying everyone fairly in every sector and we would end these disruptions, the government is more worried about their donors than to confront these issues.

Education in most UK universities even the well reputed ones is a dreadful rip off. Hardly any classes, endless "reading weeks" and very little or no supervision. Also the overhanging risk of strike or colleges/ courses going bankrupt.

I agree with the Professor and I’m also a university student. My lecturers are visibly exhausted. BUT I also think they should mark students work when able.

@wr9209

Жыл бұрын

I think your missing the point of why they do this. The senior management in universities always use the students as a stick to beat lecturers with, meanwhile they’re on 6 figure salaries expecting lecturers to work unpaid additional hours, doing 9 month rolling contracts with no guarantees of a job next September, and pay that isn’t increasing at any meaningful rate for two decades now. The only way to hurt the seniors is unfortunately through the students. If students make more of a stand for lecturers, it would massively help.

@lucieirl

10 ай бұрын

⁠@@wr9209 massively disagree. Students should not have their future prospects being held ransom by the very lecturers they supported continuously through Covid and some of the biggest strikes in recent years. As much as I respect and have a good relationship with my lecturers I can’t help but feel it was for nothing now and that my cohort (final years) have been unwilling forced to say they still support the boycott even when it’s now actively fucking us and our post graduate jobs courses plans etc :/

It is a shame that the final year students in particular are affected. Hope the situation gets sorted out.

"We're all dedicated to the students"" But only if you get everything you want, right??

It is a difficult one, this situation is unfair for both students and lecturers - side note: his dad is chief correspondent on GMB, do not believe he has 45k debt in uni loans 😂

@B1azeman4760

Жыл бұрын

If he does. He father will just clear it all for him. It is alright for some 😂

@johnadejuwon4718

Жыл бұрын

@@B1azeman4760 exactly my thoughts ahaha

@B1azeman4760

Жыл бұрын

@@johnadejuwon4718 Someday the media will gets students on from the real world who won't rely on their parents and their money/influence to fix all of their problems. As a student myself having him as the interviewee takes the piss

@johnadejuwon4718

Жыл бұрын

@@B1azeman4760 I couldn’t agree more, it was the right message but wrong messenger

@B1azeman4760

Жыл бұрын

@@johnadejuwon4718 100%, hopefully the message does not get lost due to a poor choice in messenger

Students pay universities to provide education to a specific standard, included in that is an expectation of assessment & grading that will better enable them to find future employment. Universities themselves have raced towards charging maximum fees…theyARE now COMMERCIAL providers. Surely by NOT providing that marking ( or delaying so as to damage employment opportunities) there is a breach of contract? Can students sue in this instance?

@majordelays4909

Жыл бұрын

It sounds like they should have every right, hopefully they do.

Unbelievable. 😮

Had my degree for 12 years and it has never benefitted me

Hope they get refund on tuition fees paying for service don't get...

Once I can't have my time back at least give my money back. No teaching, no support and now marking assessment boycott. Splashing £9250 in tuition fee what for? I'm charity person but I'll like to decide when and to who I donate. And this criminals are definitely not on my list. What a mockery !

Why punish the students after all we're paying their bills. Shameful!

Did they ask someone from the uni to make a statement? Missing in the conversation is the university's point of view.

As an academic in a “highly-rated” HE institution who doesn’t agree with all this mess, my sincere advice to students planning to go to uni this September is: don’t waste your time and your money, look for an alternative plan. A gap year, or even a second gap year, will be more fruitful than what you will get from college.

I bet the student loans company are getting thousands of calls asking what happens to their debt if they die. Talk to your family guys. Thankfully your debts are never passed onto them! 30% of degrees should be axed!!

This is NOT like a Hospital A&E boycott!!! 😆 So ridiculous, the degrees WILL be marked, just a few months late - you don't recover from a fatal accident when you get treatment a few months after a strike! 🤔 As much of a pain as it is, and very disruptive for some, the student's futures and careers have NOT been ruined, no more than train or postal strikes that effect people's lives & jobs.

@eloise2470

11 ай бұрын

Very bold claim that students futures aren't being jeopardised, students are losing job offers and postgraduate opportunities thanks to this ongoing boycott. Universities aren't giving any feasible time frame in which work will be marked and degrees will be handed out. We are looking at potentially graduating a year late. This is not a trivial complaint but a situation that makes a mockery of our country's so-called 'world-renowned' higher education system.

@lucieirl

10 ай бұрын

it’s holding back thousands of peoples entries onto Masters/into jobs requiring proof of qualification/updating their visa if international students etc. its not just oh we have to wait a bit longer its fucking over the students who have ALWAYS supported strikes and now when it matters most we are being left out to dry. As horrible as it is to say, at least staff have their accolades and experience behind them to seek new employment if the uni does not provide enough, undergraduates with no degree and minimum job experience due to COVID and full time degree to complete are screwed. So yeah while not directly fatal it’s extremely degrading and disrespectful to young people who have committed time and money and sadly some students will probably suffer from mental health issues due to this stress

Its okay for this professor as he earns £90,000

If you can't do your job properly, the logic is simple. JUST THROW YOUR HAT MATE!

Briefly diverting from the topic discussed here, Charlie really takes after his dad It's an absolute joke what is happening to you university students, you suffered during A levels and again now. I sincerely hope you receive your degrees that you worked so hard for and that you wholeheartedly deserve.

He’s handsome ❤

This GMB guy doesn’t understand the concept or purpose of striking. If your not causing problems, nothing will change. I suppose when you’re in a privileged 6 figure salary on TV, it’s easy to judge others.

He kinda fine!

The UK really is ‘proper fucked’ after 12 years of Tory rule. There is some irony here in that the Tory rich boy being interviewed has been caught up in what normally just affects the ordinary plebs.

Wow that guy is cute

@everydaywinning

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂I was just thinking the same

@ScepticalBrit

Жыл бұрын

FIT 😍

@Da1Dez

Жыл бұрын

Are you even aware of the point of this video!?

@abigailcoffey512

Жыл бұрын

@@Da1Dez I'm not british and don't really care tbh

This is disgusting!! The University lecturers are willing to sacrafice the future of thousands of students for their own greed!!! Revolting!!

when will people understand that university is a business. they don’t give a shit about students... all they want is you paying for your courses......

University lecturers complaining about difficult working conditions need to literally work in any other job that exists on earth and get some perspective.

@tinterlight

Жыл бұрын

Lol - you should try a week in the life of a typical academic. We do three jobs in one: research; teaching; admin (and for good measure: giving pastoral support to students). No doubt there are some dons out there with laughably light workloads but for most of us it's a relentless grind.

@micu1544

Жыл бұрын

@@tinterlight get a job in a kitchen or a building site and then come and complain

@micu1544

Жыл бұрын

@@tinterlight apologies i just reread your comment and now think you were possibly being ironic?

got to admit it bugs me that academics make so much of a fuss when everyone forgets about the professional service staff. To be fair academics aren't paid as much as they used to be (in real terms) and there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes students don't see. But the real issue is professional services, often the 'forgotten group' again because no one sees them but a lot wouldn't happen without them. Loads of universities are making these staff redundant because they cannot afford to pay them. This is admissions staff, student support, school staff (that dot he admin for these things), on average, there's about 2000 staff members that work behind the scenes. But they can't strike a lot of the time. Unfortunately, tuition fees need to go up, I know it sounds horrible, but universities won't run and have the services people need/ want without them. Academics kinda need to pipe down as well, I think they will find it hard holding a discussion with an admissions officer that handles thousands of applications and is on £22k about how they on £50k are underpaid :/

Why aren't the students supportign there lecturers

@CGCTV

Жыл бұрын

Because most lecturers dont support their students. Gone are the days where you could walk into their office for help. Its just emails that you may get a reply too

@a.lodhi2317

Жыл бұрын

Because we're a just a game piece that they're ready to throw off the board. I've worked to fund myself and had to basically teach myself a course only to be told it didn't matter.

@damiagunbiade

Жыл бұрын

I don't blame students for not supporting the strikes or being angry for the situation. You realise these students have worked hard to get their degrees. It's not their fault whatsoever. Don't try and blame them for this!

@sharingiscaring4922

Жыл бұрын

@@damiagunbiade you don’t think the teachers work hard.

@sharingiscaring4922

Жыл бұрын

@@a.lodhi2317 boo hoo,

FIT 👉👈

Uch.. I forgot how virtuous good morning Britain is *I legit hate the host*

too much time wasted wondering what gender they are

Well I never went to Uni. But from what I heard here it's the luck of the draw...

145 Universities in the UK, no there is not there is about 60 the rest are practically borstals with white boards!

Damn this dude is handsome