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A certain incident....
Readers of my last protected entry will realize that I have been having a bit of trouble with my CCNA instructors (not tutors, I have been duly informed) and access to module assesments.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
On Wednesday one of the instructors, Graham Timmins, telephones and informs me - in the most abusive and threatening manner possible - that I had been expelled from the course and if I attempted to attend on Saturday that he would remove me. He also claimed that he "knew my type" and that I had done nothing in the past fifteen years except be a professional student (clearly he doesn't know how to do a websearch).
Now of course you can't prove anything by 'phone. So I requested that he send me an email of all this - at which point he hung up. Soon afterwards I received send email, minus the personal abuse and of course the threat to throw me out substantially modified ("you will be refused entry").
He also said for further discussion I should either 'phone him or see him personally. Neither is an option to me. I don't want to engage in a conversation with a man with that sort of 'phone manner, and the idea of seeing an erratic individual who wants me to go to a building which he has just threatened to throw me out of is unlikely.
I have submitted a formal complaint to RMIT on account of his actions.
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I thought most universities had provision to return test papers buried somewhere in their handbooks or policies. I know many academics hate it, and will swear point blank that no such provision exists.
But they're academics - and don't know any better.
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Hmmm... Now that is a wonder. I guess the closest thing he came to a reason was that (a) I wasn't interested in the course (not true of course) and (b) he knows my type and I hadn't done anything for fifteen years (not true of course).
I thought most universities had provision to return test papers buried somewhere in their handbooks or policies.
Usually - but this probably doesn't apply in this case as a fee-paying short course.
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That's as I requested. I didn't want to take them home or anything. I just wanted to know what questions I got wrong.
It didn't really seem to be a big deal at first.