The University of Edinburgh’s student satisfaction rates are continuously, embarrassingly low, and I would bet my first-born child that a huge reason for this is their neglect of us joint honours students.
As a final year History and Politics student, I feel I’m in an optimal position to slander. You might think, hey, History and Politics – aren’t those two schools literally physically connected? You would be correct. Surely that means communications run smoothly? Nope! If I had a penny for every time HCA told me to email SPS and vice versa, I’d be a very rich woman. This despite the fact that it would take me longer to sign off the email than it would for them to cross the hallway (but in their defence, I do have a very long name).
Speaking of emails, guess how many I’ve had from the SPS mailing list? Zero! My degree belongs to the HCA, which apparently means they have full custody, and SPS doesn’t even have visitation rights. Politics careers talk? Found out from my single-honours IR friend. Politics dissertation information session? Same thing. Get involved at SPS? You can see where this is going.
Surprisingly, this semester we had a cohort meeting exclusively for History and Politics. The cohort lead talked a big game, claiming awareness of joint honours students’ complaints and promising that they are working on being better. Yet every time she was asked a question about Politics, “Ooh, I’m actually not sure, you’re going to have to email someone at SPS about that.” And the cycle of trauma continues for all the children of divorced, estranged parents, a.k.a. joint honours students.
“Edinburgh Medical School building, Teviot Place” by Kim Traynor is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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A Short Rant: The Dis-Jointed Honours Degree
The University of Edinburgh’s student satisfaction rates are continuously, embarrassingly low, and I would bet my first-born child that a huge reason for this is their neglect of us joint honours students.
As a final year History and Politics student, I feel I’m in an optimal position to slander. You might think, hey, History and Politics – aren’t those two schools literally physically connected? You would be correct. Surely that means communications run smoothly? Nope! If I had a penny for every time HCA told me to email SPS and vice versa, I’d be a very rich woman. This despite the fact that it would take me longer to sign off the email than it would for them to cross the hallway (but in their defence, I do have a very long name).
Speaking of emails, guess how many I’ve had from the SPS mailing list? Zero! My degree belongs to the HCA, which apparently means they have full custody, and SPS doesn’t even have visitation rights. Politics careers talk? Found out from my single-honours IR friend. Politics dissertation information session? Same thing. Get involved at SPS? You can see where this is going.
Surprisingly, this semester we had a cohort meeting exclusively for History and Politics. The cohort lead talked a big game, claiming awareness of joint honours students’ complaints and promising that they are working on being better. Yet every time she was asked a question about Politics, “Ooh, I’m actually not sure, you’re going to have to email someone at SPS about that.” And the cycle of trauma continues for all the children of divorced, estranged parents, a.k.a. joint honours students.
“Edinburgh Medical School building, Teviot Place” by Kim Traynor is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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