Rick-rating: Visiting Lecturer Why?
So says a commenter on Rate Your Lecturer, a new website that is worrying UK academics.
The NSS is too general, says Michael Bulman, the recent history graduate from Northumbria University who has set up Rate Your Lecturer.
Rate Your Lecturer is an unlikely companion to the coalition's higher education reforms which, in exchange for £9,000 annual fees, promised students consumer clout that would place them "at the heart of the system".
A better student feedback system is needed, she says – but it would be wrong to promote a "students versus academics mentality" of the sort encouraged by Rate Your Lecturer.
Despite attracting trivial remarks about lecturers' breath, bums and sweat patches, Rate Your Lecturer says its aim is to empower students, allowing them to "hold lecturers to account, encouraging them to work harder on your behalf; making your money work as effectively as possible".
The decrease in the rating of lecturers' punctuality can be easily explained by the fact that the theory classes were always predictably held in the same place in 2002 (group I), while group II used various locations that were specially booked for them.
I can laugh at the puns, calmly press lecturers on survival rates for breast cancer, marvel at the elegant molecular mechanisms by which it eats us alive.
Tim Goodacre, president of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and an Oxford University lecturer said even a rupture rate of 1% would be high: "If you have an implant the likelihood that you will need follow-up surgery is about 1% per year.
The lecturer gave optics lectures.
