If courses need to be discontinued, then courses are discontinued. If redundancies are necessary, then people are made redundant. If a new VC is required, then a new VC is hired - the educated can take care of themselves, it's the uneducated we need to start worrying about!
After much consideration, studying and an exercise of principle, today I finally withdrew from the MSc in Creative Technologies and Enterprise I have been toying with undertaking ever since graduating with my BA (Hons).
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| At first a very hard choice and then a surprisingly easy decision to make. Why? See the next screenshot... |
Originally, Bath Spa University offered the degree to me for September, 2013; then they offered up February, 2014; with me officially settling on September, 2014 (when the degree actually launched due to enough student applications). However, feeling that there was still more I wanted to do before going back to university, I informed the university to push my entry back to September, 2015.
Now I have pulled completely.
My reasoning is thus:
- In the last year-and-a-half, I have covered the curriculum of the degree in the many MOOCs and independent research I have undertaken.
- I was not overly impressed with the interpersonal approaches or calibre of the teaching staff.
- I also studied my BA (Hons) at Bath Spa University and, aside from having already moved on, I am a little tired of the university.
- As the creative technologies side largely takes care of itself once you have acquired a proactive and progressive temperament. My main incentive behind taking the degree was for the enterprise aspect, as entrepreneurship is something that greatly excites me. I am currently working my way through my verified Specialisation in Entrepreneurship which more than makes up for (and would probably transcend) the teaching in the Creative Technologies and Enterprise MSc.
Therefore, aside from the additional material resources it would have given me access to - definitely not worth £6000 - the Creative Technologies and Enterprise MSc is now redundant.
I elaborate in the video below...
At the time of making the video above two days ago, I still had not submitted my notice of withdrawal, it was only when I read the following piece of news today, that I submitted it out of principle...
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| Thoughts? See screen capture below... |
It's bad enough they decided to bury their heads in the sand when the government decided to increase the tuition fees, but you must be joking if you think I going to enrol in a university headed by a Vice Chancellor who reinforces the rising of tuition fees by spending tax payers money in order to go globe-trotting to recruit international students to fill the empty spaces.
Not only is it infuriating to the UK students who really do want and need to go to university, but it's insulting to the international students who are being conned into fronting the bill.
If courses need to be discontinued, then courses are discontinued. If redundancies are necessary, then people are made redundant. If a new VC is required, then a new VC is hired - the educated can take care of themselves, it's the uneducated we need to start worrying about!
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| Hence why I did not go to my graduation. I was a little angry about the whole affair. |
What's even more infuriating about this insult is that I am now ashamed to admit that I studied my BA (Hons) at Bath Spa University.
But I never actually went to my graduation ceremony, so can it really be said that I did go there?
At the very least I did not contribute any money towards the VC's lunch.
Bath Spa University, I am grateful for the masters offer and I am flattered that you offered it to me on the strength of my BA (Hons), but this is my final answer...
No, thank you. The VC can buy her own bloody lunch!
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