Dear Goldsmiths Students, we would like to express our apologies at the lack support you have been given by @GoldsmithsUoL to prepare for the coming academic year. Teaching staff have also been left in the dark about following issues 1/8
Poor provision for online teaching:
We’ve not received adequate information or training to prepare for online teaching. It was only a week before term that ITS confirmed what platforms we should use, but not whether they will be able to deliver all modes of teaching required 2/8
Late Timetabling:
We’ve not yet received final timetables for teaching. This doesn’t give us confidence in the resilience of College systems in dealing with the large volume of online teaching we expect to do 3/8
Poor library provision:
We’ve only just received finalised online reading lists. We also have been informed that we cannot order required online materials (other than limited amounts of key readings). We have also been informed that the library budget has been cut 4/8
No support for preparation of online teaching:
To adequately prepare online online teaching requires significant time from teaching staff. We have received no additional support for these activities 5/8
No confirmation of graduate tutor contracts:
This has meant we are unable to prepare classes, or train these tutors, as appropriate. Graduate tutors do the majority of interfacing with students throughout their degree programmes. 6/8
No definitive guidance over F2F teaching:
We have not been told definitively whether teaching will be online for the first term. 7/8
Given the lack of regard the College has had to these issues so far, we expect @goldsmithsUoL and @FCorner to take responsibility for the inevitable student dissatisfaction teaching staff will face. 8/8
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