> Assessment should be “culturally responsive” and “reward the use of ‘language culture and identity” while marking should “embrace linguistic diversity” according to the new framework.
Are they changing the criteria to make passing of international students who barely speak English look less corrupt? Or are they changing the criteria as a pathetic infantalisation of young people?
MultiMidden on
>King’s College London wants to reduce “over-reliance” on traditional exams, with students to be **offered more choice in how they are assessed, such as coursework**.
Who came up with this cunning plan, Prof. Baldrick?
Academics are literally tearing their hair out about students using ChatGPT to write essays/coursework and now some ‘genius’ has decided to increase coursework. The lecturers I know are saying that because of AI more emphasis needs to be placed on exams.
FormulaSolution on
Shock Horror, University infamous for terrible student satisfaction has low student satisfaction
Thandoscovia on
Bruv KCL mans are MOVING mad still. Cutting essay word counts to 1300? That’s peak, fam. You lot paying bare Ps in tuition and they’re out here dumbing ting down like you can’t handle it? Wasteman behaviour from upper management, no cap.
It’s like this yeah. Why can’t mans come to Kings and write like mans want. You dun know. Mans ain’t even a real king. Like a professor or summit.
And this “ideas not grammar” ting – nah blud, that ain’t it. When you step into the job to make paper, they ain’t gonna care about your “lived experience” if your writing’s all over the place, you get me? Mans tryna bag a bag after graduation and these lot are on some next level clout chasing with the EDI slides.
The fact that STUDENTS penned a letter against it is sending me.The uni thought they was being dead and the mandem clapped back. Classic L from management, they got merked by their own yutes.
Real talk though – the academics spitting facts. You want a deep, hard education, not some watered down ting so middle management can justify their wage. Sort it out KCL, on god.
Shot_Net3794 on
If I was a student, I’d be celebrating given tuition prices but this isn’t a good thing for society lol
swiftmen991 on
I used to be a visiting professor and tutor at UCL (where I also studied) and we had clear guidelines on marking someone’s work. One of the difficult things was language (it was an engineering course) but it was still expected that students would be able to write coherent sentences. I’m not originally British myself but I worked very hard on getting my English to a professional level.
UCL is full of international students and even with its reputation, the number of Asian students with very poor English was insane. I believe that some of them had other people sit their language requirement exams because they could barely string two words together.
To remove these rules is insane. It’s one thing to get into the U.K. without speaking but at the very least, you should be penalised very heavily if your reports and coursework is unreadable
Edit: also just to add, most if not all U.K. universities offer free English language courses to help you strengthen your speaking and writing. There’s no reason to not speak or write legibly
KingdomCraftDeli on
We are already knee deep in the consequences of participation prizes and moves away from meritocracy.
Low-Cartographer8758 on
I don’t understand because I am not a native English speaker. My mother language rarely teach grammar and we do not vet students’ grammar. lol
Ah yes, because removing the requirement to read, write and speak English has been working _fantastically_ for the NHS, let’s just roll it out everywhere!
ProbablyDK on
Is there a financial incentive to do this? If so, from where? That’s a huge problem.
Specialist_Alarm_831 on
Will be interesting when all of our educational establishments dive in global excellence rankings.
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> Assessment should be “culturally responsive” and “reward the use of ‘language culture and identity” while marking should “embrace linguistic diversity” according to the new framework.
Are they changing the criteria to make passing of international students who barely speak English look less corrupt? Or are they changing the criteria as a pathetic infantalisation of young people?
>King’s College London wants to reduce “over-reliance” on traditional exams, with students to be **offered more choice in how they are assessed, such as coursework**.
Who came up with this cunning plan, Prof. Baldrick?
Academics are literally tearing their hair out about students using ChatGPT to write essays/coursework and now some ‘genius’ has decided to increase coursework. The lecturers I know are saying that because of AI more emphasis needs to be placed on exams.
Shock Horror, University infamous for terrible student satisfaction has low student satisfaction
Bruv KCL mans are MOVING mad still. Cutting essay word counts to 1300? That’s peak, fam. You lot paying bare Ps in tuition and they’re out here dumbing ting down like you can’t handle it? Wasteman behaviour from upper management, no cap.
It’s like this yeah. Why can’t mans come to Kings and write like mans want. You dun know. Mans ain’t even a real king. Like a professor or summit.
And this “ideas not grammar” ting – nah blud, that ain’t it. When you step into the job to make paper, they ain’t gonna care about your “lived experience” if your writing’s all over the place, you get me? Mans tryna bag a bag after graduation and these lot are on some next level clout chasing with the EDI slides.
The fact that STUDENTS penned a letter against it is sending me.The uni thought they was being dead and the mandem clapped back. Classic L from management, they got merked by their own yutes.
Real talk though – the academics spitting facts. You want a deep, hard education, not some watered down ting so middle management can justify their wage. Sort it out KCL, on god.
If I was a student, I’d be celebrating given tuition prices but this isn’t a good thing for society lol
I used to be a visiting professor and tutor at UCL (where I also studied) and we had clear guidelines on marking someone’s work. One of the difficult things was language (it was an engineering course) but it was still expected that students would be able to write coherent sentences. I’m not originally British myself but I worked very hard on getting my English to a professional level.
UCL is full of international students and even with its reputation, the number of Asian students with very poor English was insane. I believe that some of them had other people sit their language requirement exams because they could barely string two words together.
To remove these rules is insane. It’s one thing to get into the U.K. without speaking but at the very least, you should be penalised very heavily if your reports and coursework is unreadable
Edit: also just to add, most if not all U.K. universities offer free English language courses to help you strengthen your speaking and writing. There’s no reason to not speak or write legibly
We are already knee deep in the consequences of participation prizes and moves away from meritocracy.
I don’t understand because I am not a native English speaker. My mother language rarely teach grammar and we do not vet students’ grammar. lol
https://youtube.com/shorts/K61noHT82n0?si=F2qgHBetZRe6-D3S
The only thing worse than the daily mail is quoting the daily mail.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soft_bigotry_of_low_expectations
Ah yes, because removing the requirement to read, write and speak English has been working _fantastically_ for the NHS, let’s just roll it out everywhere!
Is there a financial incentive to do this? If so, from where? That’s a huge problem.
Will be interesting when all of our educational establishments dive in global excellence rankings.