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So I only have a few stories this week, but they're some good ones.
Bit o'background: In addition to our usual haul of degrees, some of our units can also be taken as a single subject, with the idea being that the student then has a qualification that they can add to their resume afterwards and should they wish to enrol in a degree where that subject is required, they'll get credit for it already. In these instances, the students are under the same expectations as if they were taking the full degree.
We aren't THAT sheltered...
For one of the subjects, the students had to create a poster that could be theoretically hung up in say, a classroom or a community centre to promote a healthy lifestyle. This particular student decided to be particularly ballsy and rather than create a poster from scratch, opted to take an already-existing poster (as in one that's hung up on the wall in most community centres), changed the colours on it slightly, changed absolutely NOTHING else, then tried to pass that off as an "original" work.
Her reward for that was to be failed from the subject entirely (meaning that she cannot even claim credit for it in part should she try to return in the future) and be barred from enrolling for 12 months.
At least TRY and put in some effort...
Another course had one student who opted for the style of "Simplistic and to the point," in one of their assignments. Specifically, the assignment in question required him to make a mind map and then answer a bunch of questions. The expected word count was around 2000 words overall. He opted to submit around 3-4 bullet points for each half of the assignment. Not 3-4 bullet points per question, 3-4 bullet points per half of the assignment. Since it was his own work at least, he wound up failing the subject rather than being booted as well.
These are not the pants you're meant to wear:
As we're switching from a paper-based system to an online system for logging feedback from the mentors while students are on placement, I'm assisting with monitoring the feedback and picking up on things that sometimes get missed (I also do some low-level tech support for this particular system for the mentors as a result). The feedback then goes to us, the student and the mentor (same copy).
Under the question "Plan moving forward," one of the mentors had written for one of our students "Wear the proper pants next time." (We allow our students to wear navy or black pants or a skirt, provided they can move in it and it's otherwise professional in appearance) I can only imagine what the student had tried to rock up to placement in
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Yes, we DO need to confirm your registration...
This one was an applicant for being a mentor. Long story short, for our mentors, we require that you are currently licensed in whatever field you're in. If you have conditions on your license, it'll depend on what those conditions are as to whether you're suitable for the role. (For example, if the condition is one simply requiring you to visit a medical practitioner every so often, that's not a problem. If the condition restricts you to a particular specialty however, you may be in trouble)
Cue the arrival of this particular person's application. I forward it on to the coordinators to confirm if they're a suitable applicant or not. One of them proceeds to inform me that they'd interviewed her while working in their previous role and she'd not been entirely honest with them, but didn't go into further detail.
When I went and checked her license later however, it turned out that they had several conditions on their license which basically resulted in them being unable to do any mentoring work whatsoever.
Bit o'background: In addition to our usual haul of degrees, some of our units can also be taken as a single subject, with the idea being that the student then has a qualification that they can add to their resume afterwards and should they wish to enrol in a degree where that subject is required, they'll get credit for it already. In these instances, the students are under the same expectations as if they were taking the full degree.
We aren't THAT sheltered...
For one of the subjects, the students had to create a poster that could be theoretically hung up in say, a classroom or a community centre to promote a healthy lifestyle. This particular student decided to be particularly ballsy and rather than create a poster from scratch, opted to take an already-existing poster (as in one that's hung up on the wall in most community centres), changed the colours on it slightly, changed absolutely NOTHING else, then tried to pass that off as an "original" work.
Her reward for that was to be failed from the subject entirely (meaning that she cannot even claim credit for it in part should she try to return in the future) and be barred from enrolling for 12 months.
At least TRY and put in some effort...
Another course had one student who opted for the style of "Simplistic and to the point," in one of their assignments. Specifically, the assignment in question required him to make a mind map and then answer a bunch of questions. The expected word count was around 2000 words overall. He opted to submit around 3-4 bullet points for each half of the assignment. Not 3-4 bullet points per question, 3-4 bullet points per half of the assignment. Since it was his own work at least, he wound up failing the subject rather than being booted as well.
These are not the pants you're meant to wear:
As we're switching from a paper-based system to an online system for logging feedback from the mentors while students are on placement, I'm assisting with monitoring the feedback and picking up on things that sometimes get missed (I also do some low-level tech support for this particular system for the mentors as a result). The feedback then goes to us, the student and the mentor (same copy).
Under the question "Plan moving forward," one of the mentors had written for one of our students "Wear the proper pants next time." (We allow our students to wear navy or black pants or a skirt, provided they can move in it and it's otherwise professional in appearance) I can only imagine what the student had tried to rock up to placement in
. Yes, we DO need to confirm your registration...
This one was an applicant for being a mentor. Long story short, for our mentors, we require that you are currently licensed in whatever field you're in. If you have conditions on your license, it'll depend on what those conditions are as to whether you're suitable for the role. (For example, if the condition is one simply requiring you to visit a medical practitioner every so often, that's not a problem. If the condition restricts you to a particular specialty however, you may be in trouble)
Cue the arrival of this particular person's application. I forward it on to the coordinators to confirm if they're a suitable applicant or not. One of them proceeds to inform me that they'd interviewed her while working in their previous role and she'd not been entirely honest with them, but didn't go into further detail.
When I went and checked her license later however, it turned out that they had several conditions on their license which basically resulted in them being unable to do any mentoring work whatsoever.
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