Semesterisation yay or nay?

joulter

For those of us who worked under the old system what do you think of semesterisation?

from my own experience its been fairly poorly implemented...badly organised,no actual choice of modules and a seriously increased workload... but then maybe thats just my department:)

evil-monkey

has its ups and down. i think it has definately increased the workload.

Webmonkey

evil-monkey wrote: »

has its ups and down. i think it has definately increased the workload.

Personally it has fked up my final year. FYP being sarcrified terribly. Since we came back 2 weeks late (work placement), we are having awful time with scheduling.

Kold

Is utterly impractical in Crawford.

Seanot

The workload is crazy!!!

TBH I like the format...... the month off in January will be very handy. Some of our modules are 100% CA, so no final exam!! but thats where the extra work is coming from you have to do it throughout the year instead.

Webmonkey

Seanot wrote: »

The workload is crazy!!!

TBH I like the format...... the month off in January will be very handy. Some of our modules are 100% CA, so no final exam!! but thats where the extra work is coming from you have to do it throughout the year instead.

month off would be nice alright if we didn't have our exams on it plus a project

deegs

Suits me very well.

towel401

its a load of bollox nothing wrong with the old system why fix it if it aint broke?

oh ya to keep the admin staff in their jobs...

Webmonkey

As well as that Lecturers don't have much control over exam scheduling/format anymore etc.

evil-monkey

era the workload is up but other than that i don't mind it. sure anyone coming into third level this year anyway wouldn't know any different because they never had the old way. a few years time and the change will all be forgotten

suppafly

Seanot wrote: »

The workload is crazy!!!

TBH I like the format...... the month off in January will be very handy. Some of our modules are 100% CA, so no final exam!! but thats where the extra work is coming from you have to do it throughout the year instead.

I really like how 3 out my 6 modules r 100% CA. I much prefer that to the majority of the marks going for an end of semester exam. Also the it goes by a lot faster cuz its only 12 weeks.

akamossy

I get no month off i go on work experience straight after xmas for 3 months. Think ye have it bad, when we get back we have 6 weeks to cover 12 weeks work. Oh joy

towel401

at least you get work experience..

akamossy

In social care you generally need to have it or no-one will touch you after college. It's the reason i'm doing it here.

towel401

that sux. someday i`m going to walk out of collitch with 0 days experience doing anything. especially if the recession keeps going. but things like the recession only make more work for social workers

evil-monkey

towel401 wrote: »

that sux. someday i`m going to walk out of collitch with 0 days experience doing anything. especially if the recession keeps going. but things like the recession only make more work for social workers

what course are you doing towel??

suppafly

evil-monkey wrote: »

what course are you doing towel??

I'm towel401. repeating a few subjects of electronic engineering. as usual

electronic engineering apparently

pablomakaveli

I hate semestirisation. its been badly planned in my course and im up to my eyeballs in assignments,reports and exams. iv had to stay in til 9 some nights just to get things done.:(

evil-monkey

suppafly wrote: »

electronic engineering apparently

cool. had you down as ITS for some reason and was wondering why ye hadn't any work experience. ya it's a pity that ye don't have it. it's a worthwhile addition to any course.

pablomakaveli wrote: »

iv had to stay in til 9 some nights just to get things done.:(

lol. we're timetabled from 10 -10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. and then it's home for a few hours of more work to get stuff done. i'd be happy out to be finished my college work at 9!!

Cork Like

i am big into sports, im chairman of one club, and had planned to join many others. but since semesterisation, i dont have ANY free time. i have exams andassignments EVERY week... and even the final year exams are formatted badly. i have a programming exam on week 12.. then the programming end of semester exam on week 13. who needs 2 exams in 2 weeks? and i have another in week ten to top it off.... if they half the year they should half the number of exams and assignments, instead of squeezing all the same ammount of work into a smaller space. but they dont seem to get this fact into their thick skulls. Solely because of semesterisation and its bad implementation in cit, along with the bad running of everything the techies were blamed for at the start of the year (including missing 4 weeks of labs coz they hadnt been bothered seeting up the student log-ins) i am fairly certain that i wont be coming back here next year.