***IMPORTANT*** Monday 11th exams re-scheduled

ditmature

Hi all,

The exams scheduled for Monday 11th January in DIT have been POSTPONED due to extremely poor weather expected on Sunday 10th. This announcement was made by DIT today about 1pm.

The rest of the week's exams WILL go ahead as scheduled. There is no make-up date scheduled yet for Monday's exams.

Best of luck!

Bob

kona

Important update on DIT examinations for Monday 11 January:

Given the uncertainty of weather conditions and the availability of
transport options for Monday 11 January, examinations scheduled to take
place in DIT on that day have been postponed and a new date will be
arranged as soon as possible. NB - Examinations for the rest of next
week will proceed as scheduled.

Opening of buildings and libraries:

Dublin Institute of Technology campus buildings are open as usual
today, Friday 8th January but will close at 5.30 pm this evening.
Normal opening hours will apply tomorrow, Saturday 9th January.

All Libraries are open today, but will close at 5pm this evening.
Libraries will open as usual tomorrow, Saturday 9th January - opening
times are as follows:

Aungier Street, Bolton Street, Cathal Brugha Street, Mountjoy Square:
10 am to 5 pm


Kevin Street: 10 am to 4.30 pm


Rathmines: 9.30 am to 1 pm


This information will be updated regularly here on www.dit.ie and on
the student and staff portal, www.mydit.ie, so please check if there is
any deterioration in weather conditions or transport.

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your route:

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http://www.buseireann.ie/

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projectmayhem

Stickied for the time being. Use this thread as an information place

Sheeps

I hope you realise that the threat title says that Mondays exams are cancelled when they are just postponed. Maybe someone should change that. It's very miss leading, due to the fact that to cancel something and to postpone something mean two completely different things.

projectmayhem

Sheeps wrote: »

I hope you realise that the threat title says that Mondays exams are cancelled when they are just postponed. Maybe someone should change that. It's very miss leading, due to the fact that to cancel something and to postpone something mean two completely different things.

Fixed for clarity, though in the OPs defense the post says everything needed to be said.

Ciaran500

Any idea when we'll see a new date for them? I don't want to start focusing on other exams to be told Monday's exam will be before the others.

projectmayhem

Ciaran500 wrote: »

Any idea when we'll see a new date for them? I don't want to start focusing on other exams to be told Monday's exam will be before the others.

No idea but assuming a huge number of students are now displaced they'll probably hold this exam late, after the main bulk of exams are completed next week. Or just suck it up and pay some overtime to hold it on Saturday...

Yelonka

I just hope that it will be during the 2 weeks that had been booked for exams.I'm flying away on 24th and can not afford not to go.

Tails142

In the same situation as Yelonka above. Got exams on the 11th, 13th and 18th, and fly out for work for 3 nights on the 19th!!

This could be an absolute disaster, as a p/t student I've used up the last of my annual leave to take the next two weeks off for studying and the exams, so if they reschedule it after the last exam I'll probably have to take unpaid leave or something :eek:

candy19

I think that DIT should come out and give an outright decision not just for Monday but for Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
If they check the forecast they can anticipate in advance what's to come.

St. Pat's College in Drumcondra has cancelled exams now until Wednesday, could DIT not have taken a similar approach. We are now going to have to wait until Monday to hear a decision on Tuesday and so on!

They need to be more considerate to student who have to commute to college daily. I know in my own case, that I live a 15 min walk away from college and so we are putting a few friends up so they don't have to travel home daily.

An adequate decision needs to be made for the safety of the students, Tomorrow and not Monday morning!!

68 lost souls

candy19 wrote: »

I think that DIT should come out and give an outright decision not just for Monday but for Tuesday and Wednesday as well.
If they check the forecast they can anticipate in advance what's to come.

St. Pat's College in Drumcondra has cancelled exams now until Wednesday, could DIT not have taken a similar approach. We are now going to have to wait until Monday to hear a decision on Tuesday and so on!

They need to be more considerate to student who have to commute to college daily. I know in my own case, that I live a 15 min walk away from college and so we are putting a few friends up so they don't have to travel home daily.

An adequate decision needs to be made for the safety of the students, Tomorrow and not Monday morning!!

I like this post. If you look at the forecast Monday is to be worse then Sunday so surely it would be expected that Tuesday will be postponed as well.

projectmayhem

A 10 day cold snap is expected and national schools are closed till Wednesday. DIT have said nothing more on the matter, despite the dept. of Educations response....

asomeday

as with all things DIT this college year it is an absolute disgrace.As a final year student I am stressed with exams anyway never mind an indecisive management team.

kila2008

I have exams on Tuesday & Thursday but as I am still at home in Co. Roscommon, I will have to try and travel up tomorrow instead of risking a delay on Tuesday. The roads here at home are still really icy and only gritted in parts. I live in a rural village and don't drive myself and therefore I have to rely on a family member to get me as far as the train station in the local town.

I agree with the above poster that DIT should make a decision on all exams this week in advance as it really isn't fair to leave it until the last minute. I have visions of arriving in Dublin tomorrow after spending hours travelling up (my train often gets delayed in what Irish people consider good weather, so not holding out much hope for travelling in this weather) only to be greeted with the news that my exams have been cancelled.

Personally I think that if the Minister for Education thinks the weather is too dangerous for primary and secondary students to travel to and from school, then a decision should also be made for all 3rd level students. I can't remember many times when the Government decided to close all schools in the country for that long due to bad weather.

My parents have said that the weather conditions locally over the past few weeks are the worst that they have witnessed in over 30 years!

Kensington

The school of music have now cancelled all classes on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday http://www.dit.ie/news/archive2010/openinghours/.

This doesn't look good. You would think if they are going to make as drastic a decision as to cancel classes, they could have arrived at a decision on the exams too? Tomorrow may not be as bad as they expected, however Monday night is to be fairly frosty so Tuesday could be a bad day for transport as there is a lot of sleet expected.

96blsh

just got this email

Following the improvement in weather conditions and the resumption of all public transport around Dublin, all DIT exams will proceed as timetabled from tomorrow, Tuesday 12th January. Exams that were to take place today but were postponed will be re-scheduled and students will be informed of new dates as soon as possible.

Rb

This college is an absolute joke.

GirlatdRockShow

do they have to give us a weks notice as to when the rescheduled exams will take place?

96blsh

I am not sure, what I do suspect is that they will have to do it after your last exam that you currently have. This is grand if your exams are over in the first week but mine are all the way through next week as well so hoping my exams would roll into a third week. But I am sure they'll let us know. Just hoping its sooner rather than later!

Rb

96blsh wrote: »

But I am sure they'll let us know.

Yeah, probably the day before.

madrab

yeah dit couldn't organise a cliche in a cliche abundant area

projectmayhem

The reschedule will be a mess, I can tell already. Full time courses shouldn't suffer too much but part-time courses will be a disaster as it's been a rough week for people working, now they'll have to go & ask for another day off to do this exam. If they had any cop on they'd schedule the part-time exam on a Saturday morning.

LuapSnobbig

DIT yet again never fail to surprise me. Some shower of indecisive yahoos. If i was to vent my anger at this i'd have a solicitors letter in my letter box..:mad:

Rb

Dear students,

Due to the significant improvement in weather conditions and the
resumption of normal public transport, classes in the Conservatory of
Music and Drama will resume tomorrow, Tuesday 12th, not Thursday 14th
as previously communicated.

This is getting to a stage beyond belief now.

Naikon

DIT have a long, long, long way to go before University status will be considered.
I feel sorry for the Monday people. Only in Ireland folks!

Sheeps

Naikon wrote: »

DIT have a long, long, long way to go before University status will be considered.
I feel sorry for the Monday people. Only in Ireland folks!

Eh, the exams were rightfully postponed today. It wasn't safe to travel to Dublin for some students yesterday, and since the weather has improved today, it gives students a chance to get to Dublin safely a day before their exams.

Also, how has DIT a long way to go before achieving a university status? You're talking as if Universities are on some kind of higher plane of existence to institutes of technology.

And stop writing posts as if you were writing a poem. There's no need to start a new paragraph every bloody sentence.

Naikon

So you think DIT is held in the same regard as Trinity or even DCU/UCD? Funding is a higher priority where Universities are concerned.
Facilities are generally better too. Besides, DIT have not given a date for the postponed exams. People with holiday bookings and the
like might be in trouble. Alot of students could have sit the exams today.

Sheeps

Naikon wrote: »

So you think DIT is held in the same regard as Trinity or even DCU/UCD? funding is a higher priority where Universities are concerned.
Facilities are generally better too. Besides, DIT have not given a date for the postponed exams. People with holiday bookings and the
like might be in trouble.

Well Trinity is a world famous college, so it would obviously take the lead over DIT, as it does with both DCU and UCD. However, from an employers point of view, a DIT degree is as good, if not better in some cases than certain degrees from certain universities.

If the postponement of exams interferes with holiday plans then that's too bad. It's more important that everyone actually has a chance to actually sit their exams than it is some gobshite gets to go off on holidays. It doesn't matter if some were able to sit exams, the point is that there was a large enough number that couldn't due to the danger of travelling and the inaccessibility of roads. For example, about a fifth of my year couldn't get in to the city center.

Naikon

Sheeps wrote: »

However, from an employers point of view, a DIT degree is as good, if not better in some cases than certain degrees from certain universities.

Do you have any evidence to support this?

Employers discriminate your marks along with the college you went to. DIT like to say otherwise with the whole "it's a step closer to the real world" and all that bs. Fact remains - a University degree looks
more impressive to employers when evaluating a candidate. I am saying this despite never being near a University. IT colleges were designed with the intention of bringing higher education to the general masses.
Everyone and their mother goes to college these days which results in the reduced value of having a degree. I really wish this was not the case, but since I am a bit cynical by nature...it does make alot of sense.

Fair enough on the point of postponment. I can't speak for others trying to get to college. I could have made it in myself today, despite living in a somewhat remote area.

LuapSnobbig

DIT should have just said if you can make the exams good and if you cant we'll set another date. IMHO

Sheeps

Naikon wrote: »

Do you have any evidence to support this?

Employers discriminate your marks along with the college you went to. DIT like to say otherwise with the whole "it's a step closer to the real world" and all that bs. Fact remains - a University degree looks
more impressive to employers when evaluating a candidate. I am saying this despite never being near a University. IT colleges were designed with the intention of bringing higher education to the general masses.
Everyone and their mother goes to college these days which results in the reduced value of having a degree. I really wish this was not the case, but since I am a bit cynical by nature...it does make alot of sense.

Fair enough on the point of postponment. I can't speak for others trying to get to college. I could have made it in myself today, despite living in a somewhat remote area.

The only way degrees are depreciated are by the number of people who are allowed pass specific modules by bull****ting their way through, when really they are not qualified to graduate. You get these in pretty much every course, regardless of where they come from.

While the college facilities at the moment may be somewhat of a joke, the computer science degree from DIT is recognized by industry as being pretty decent quality due to the level of practical work students do as part of the degree. The comp science degree from UCD is lacking in regards of practical work. This is an opinion that I've derived from speaking to people from industry who are in charge of recruitment, at various conferences who have reassured me that this notion that a degree from a university is more valuable, is pretty much bull****. I was told this when I voiced my concerns about the prejudice towards institutes of technology. Anyone who works in recruitment will tell you the same thing.