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Yes! My partner eventually quit her job university lecturing because she was explicitly told time and time again she was never allowed to fail any of the intern
by mmerlin 3y ago
Yes! My partner eventually quit her job university lecturing because she was explicitly told time and time again she was never allowed to fail any of the international "full fee paying" students. If she lodged a fail mark she was raked over the coals and forced to change it as a passing mark.
She was only allowed to give failing marks to Australians who pay approximately a quarter the university fees compared to international students.
- pygar 3y agoAcademic staff don't have access to that info do they? How could she tell them apart?
- mmerlin 3y agoThe Dean and someone else above her but below the Dean. She was told several times explicitly to change failure marks to passing grades, be "extra lenient" because they did not have a high-school level of English language ability. This was a humanities course, not math or science. She failed a few slackers who were native English speakers, nothing happened in those cases (no verbal dressing-down and forced to rescind previous grade). The final straw was someone who clearly did not know the subject matter and she refused to change the grade herself. She pushed the paper back across the table and told her superior to re-grade that paper himself and she resigned end of that year...