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Students must now pay to attend their own conferrings. Eh...what?

Jay P · 2010-03-31 21:36:43

Just got an email about this: Seriously, this is just ridiculous. Having to pay to receive your own degree/masters/doctorate/whatever is just insane. Without wanting to sound like a cliché, we already pay a lot. Surely a relatively negligible amount of €65 can be covered from the registration fee. :rolleyes:

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#212 11-05-2010 11:59PM

PhatPiggins

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Nova_era wrote: »

The Soviet Union had one or two ways to deal with it.

As regards the bad publicity, I really don't think the university will be too concerned about that; the powers that be, who are certainly not the students, are more than likely to sympathize with the university, who's costs are going up and their debt expanding. The bad publicity is unlikely to affect the opinions of prospective students, and indeed many will have already filled in UCC as their number 1 choice for the coming academic year. The whole thing will have died down by the time the next CAO year comes, and things will be back to normal, with these fees in place.

The Campus Kitchen is open til 10 on Saturday and Sunday, but I'm not sure what the story during the week is. It is certainly not "late" opening though, as that would have been well advertised. To be honest I'd much rather see the Devere Hall used; the Campus Kitchen is a horrible place.

The SU need to take their involvement in the Student Centre by the balls and start using it to its full potential; the bar is open until around 11 each night, so the Devere Hall should in theory be available as a study area until at least then. It is more than likely an hour or so before staff leave the Centre, so would it not be ok to allow people study until the building is closing for the night?

The Boris brigade got a bit carried away though when it came to self discipline.

Grand the extra fees dont amount to much now but when you have to add them to the 6 odd grand that'll cost when full fees are reintroduced it'll seem worse.

I think your wrong about the bad press. I find the public sector and in particular the better paid owns are horrified by bad publicity. Its basically the only form of bench marking they receive. I have a friend who works in the library and there were conniptions when those 2 negative articles came out in the Express last november. If you want to get a public sector workers to back down make them look bad in a national newspaper. I could give you a dozen examples of the government and entire trade unions backing down recently due to media pressure.

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