Official Bitch about daily life in NUIG!

laoch na mona wrote: »

thats like saying affirmative action is racist towards whites

But it's nothing like that! We don't have a culture of sexism (unlike most of the countries that have affirmative action-they have a culture of racism) and quotas are always a bad idea. The best quota system I've seen is the recent government one where 30% of all election candidates (notice the word candidates and not dail seats) have to be of one gender (actual quote, it doesn't say 30% have to be female which is good as it's seen as gender neutral)

Am I saying NUI Galway doesn't have problems with the promotion of women? Of course not, cryonism is a massive issue in any 3rd-level institution but putting in gender quotas won't fix the problem, it will only make it worse. A person should get the job on their merits and not because there are quotas to fulfil.

h2005 wrote: »

I'm going to get slaughtered for this but I think it is. You're still not picking the
best candidate you're filling a quota.

Agreed. For unskilled jobs or positions where many skilled candidates are available, there is a justification for "quotas", but other than that the best person for the job should always get the position.

An employer has a responsibility to the company, and it's not the responsibility of the company to act as a tool for social justice.

I think MSS is looking for too much in this petition - with 5 women to be automatically promoted AND everyone who has appealed the last competition (some of whom are men incidentally) be promoted also It's also too rigid to say that if there are 66% of college lecturers then exactly 66% promoted to senior lecturer should be women. However that does not take away from the important case taken to the tribunal, the best candidates were ignored in that case were ignored it seems. From paragraph 24 of the Equal Officer's decision:

"• In this type of complaint, it is important to establish that a factor in the complainant not being promoted is because of the discriminatory ground rather than a personal dislike. Again I agree with the respondent that candidates choose referees who will give them a positive recommendation. In general the references were positive. However, none were as glowing as the references for the person (female) who came 26th out of 30. Her former Professor at a prestigious American University (It is ranked 174 in the World University rankings while NUIG is ranked 287) ‘I rank her as one of the best two or three best students – possibly the best – whom I have trained at [his University].’ Her internal referee who gave lukewarm references to other people stated ‘No doubt there will be applicants for promotion to SL who have strong claims arising from excellence in one or perhaps two of the key areas for assessment. But I would doubt very much if there are many other applicants whose excellence in performance has been as sustained and impressive as [Candidate 26] across all the areas research, teaching, service to the University and to the wider community under which these applications for promotion are to be assessed. I support her application for promotion warmly and without reservation.’

anyone know if the repeat exams for final year arts english are capped? barely slept all week due the mother of all ear infections but decided not to defer. probably should have.

janet1989 wrote: »

Are you allowed to defer the repeats in August?

Fairly sure you're only allowed to defer exams to August.

You are allowed to defer August exams but you'll be deferring the year if you do.

Long Gone wrote: »

Smokies ?

What? They've changed the name?? :eek: It used to be Smokey Joe's back in the day... Then it became known as the awkward "Smokies" with dubious apostrophe - what have they changed it to now?

Relax. It's still called Smokey's (or at least it was up until Christmas, anyways).

Interesting fact re Smokey Joe's - I never knew that it used to be called that.