Return date?

Chinafoot

Well folks, having trawled through the oh-so-simple website of our wonderful UCD, i have failed to find any confirmation of our return dat.

I know someone here said it was the 12th of September for non-1st years but does anyone have any idea where i could print off confirmation of this?

Thing is, my ****ty job are insisting that i stay til the 30th even though they were told I was going back to college before I even took the job and I was told "Yea thats no problem, once you give us a bit of notice"
Now apparently I could be liable for €800 for training costs for "breaching my contract" even though my contract states "Your employment commences on 21st of June 2005 at 9am ending at the latest on 30th September"

Anyway, I'm hoping to get it sorted by the end of the week and I have already sent an email to info@ucd.ie but, shock horror, no reply.

Now am I just blind or is there actually nothing on the website?

tribulus

i'm certain it's the 12th. i know you do arts but anyway

i'm also back on the 12th and my 2nd year mates in business are too.

ah wait this might help link

edit click on "academic administration"

Chinafoot

Trib, you're a lifesaver!

Thanks a million!

tribulus

no bother

beanyb

Ooh I'm liking the look of that Christmas break. Off 2nd Dec and back 16th Jan... I just better not have any exams..

arbeitsscheuer

beanyb wrote:

Ooh I'm liking the look of that Christmas break. Off 2nd Dec and back 16th Jan... I just better not have any exams..

You'd think a month off would be great, especially to a bum like me, but it's really not.

Believe it or not, I worked hard first semester last year:
Went to (most) lectures
Went to all tutorials
Did all the essays
(Relatively) model student

I don't mean to assign blame when it's my own fault for lettin' it slip, but that month off destroyed my rhythm. Just couldn't get back in the swing of things after xmas, and just ended up drinkin' and goin' out most days, when I should've been studying or doing essays.

Not this time, oh no. I'm going to set myself essays to do for xmas, if the idiots in History/Politics depts don't set me any again.

rainbow kirby

beanyb wrote:

Ooh I'm liking the look of that Christmas break. Off 2nd Dec and back 16th Jan... I just better not have any exams..

Erm... afaik EVERYONE has exams at Christmas this year.

blondie83

If you go to this page:

http://www.ucd.ie/engineer/

and click on the timetable link it shows the dates for the academic year, as well as going onto the page Trib showed. Peachy where do you work? Going on your contract you're not liabile for anything - I suspect BS on the part of your employers!

Vainglory

rainbow kirby wrote:

Erm... afaik EVERYONE has exams at Christmas this year.

Nah, incoming first years are fully modularised and will have some sort of assessment following the first semester (note : this may not be a written exam in all cases, could be something like a presentation), but if you didn't have exams at Christmas before then it's highly unlikely you'll have them now...for example if I was going into final or second year arts or law then I wouldn't have exams at Christmas next year (unless I studied one of the small number of arts subjects that were already modularised last year, eg music)..it's just the sweaty three hour summer quizzes in the RDS for us again.

Blush_01

I like the way they've re-organised English as a subject. Everyone knows (or should know) that there's an assessment essay after 5 weeks, and there are two lectures a week per corecourse, rather than one - makes so much sense!

Break on the 2nd of December for christmas? YAY! Now I can have both my 21sts without hassle! Thought we'd finish on the 9th or thereabouts. Wheeeeee!