College Hand-in Policy

Lump

I'm the student Rep for the media production school in my University, Cumbria Institute of the Arts. We have an issue where the college registry refuses to stamp/sign a receipt for students when they hand in their work.

There is a box infront of the window to the registry office and you fill out your hand in form, don't get it signed, attach it to the work and insert it into the box.

The problem is that our college is known for loosing students work, and as we don't receive a receipt we have no come back.

I'm currently drafting a letter to the principle. What I need to know is the practise in your particular instituation, whether it college, school, uni whatever.

Also does anyone know the law. I'm sure if you were failed due to supposedly not handing in work you could take the college to court claiming that you weren't given the option of getting a receipt then you would win the case. Can anyone clarify this for me?


Thanks,

John

Lump

Hey monty, Kind of need some urgent replies... Ok if I leave this here? Moved it from college work.

John

fozzle

I'm in NUI, Galway, and I've never heard of reciept giving, I'm afraid. 'twould be a good idea if you could manage it, though.

eth0_

Don't know why you think this thread is better off in After hours than in College Work....?

tba

You should get a guarentee of some sort even if it is just some sort of project sheet you sign.

wee_lady

they don't issue receipts in my college either but i have a friend who goes to Magee in Derry and i know she has to get receipts for every little bit of work she hands in. presume they do this all through the university of ulster.

Lump

Originally posted by eth0_
Don't know why you think this thread is better off in After hours than in College Work....?

Because more people post here, and Since I'm drafting a letter tonight, I needed them urgently..... Did you read my post?


John

Squall

Im in UCC and receipts are always given. I had thought it was standard practice but I guess not. Bit stupid not to do them up I mean theyr'e not that big a deal, a slip of paper with a stamp and thats it.

Oriel

University of Ulster always issues receipts too, I've never had any call to need them myself, but know some people who have.

rob1891

This year (final) receipts are given for major work, other smaller (but still mark giving) pieces get handed to the lecturer who assigned the work. In earlier years assignments were handed in at reception and a sheet with a list of names was signed and dated by the student.

Johnny_the_fox

University of Ulster, Coleraine

Informatics/Business etc - they currently use Webct to upload work + plus they also put a hardcopy into a post box which is opened in the morning of the due date and close evening time.

Other Departments (irish etc) - they give the coursework to the secretary in the office; she would sign it in and give them a receipt.

ixoy

Never got a receipt. What we did was sign a sheet with our name on it and the paper got stamped. But no receipt. Oh yeah - this was Trinity a couple of years ago, in the Engineering & System Sciences department...

BlitzKrieg

In APU cambridge they give reciepts for any work handed in but they always have it that the reciepts are handed in to the office of the course at certain times and if you miss those times you loose marks (or if its before the due date) have to wait till working hours again.

There are 3 reciepts one is stuck to the work itself, one to the office files and the final i keep. Also they note it on the course computer.

Lump

BlitzKrieg SOunds similar to the system we had... ironically we still you the same sheets. White, green, and pink.


John

daveirl

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nuvolari

my college doesn't do anything like that (starting to think they should...). you fill in a cover sheet, attatch it to your work and then hand it in to the office or put it in the departmental post box. half the time you don't know if it was stamped with the date or anything and you get no proof you handed it in at all

Peace

We get receipts for each assingment handed in.
Some lecturers are too lazy to hand out all the receipts so they just say if you want i can sign a sheet for you otherwise don't worry about it.

Griffith College Dublin.

daveirl

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sceptre

No receipt system in UL for assignment work, at least as far as I'm aware. Certainly none in departments of Informatics, Humanities or Business (that's over half the college in total).

I handed my final year project into the main college of business office a few years ago to make a deadline and insisted on a receipt but it isn't common policy. In informatics (which includes CSIS) the system is a series of boxes that lecturers can use for individual assignments. These boxes are made so that you can't pull out someone else's assignment. Business, unfortunately, has no such copon and often uses cardboard boxes.

Co-op reports are swapped for a receipt on er, receipt. Just as well as they lost mine.