Students at the University of Law's Moorgate branch were asked to amend their own exam papers after the wrong question was included.
The business exam included a 20 mark question that was very interesting, but sadly not on the syllabus. So invigilators asked the students to cross out the question and then reallocate the marks to five other questions. That's the sort of professionalism which justifies £15,000 for a course.
Moorgate students weren't the only ones hit. An insider says that the business exam for Bloomsbury students included various drafting and spelling mistakes and omitted key dates which affected the answer. And coursework that was due in before Christmas has to be delayed by three days after the UoL's computer systems crashed and students were unable to access the questions.
The UoL has a rich history of buggering up its exams. Results have been delayed after systems crashed, it has repeatedly handed out the wrong materials and it apologised after students variously had to sit papers in freezing cold and boiling heat. That was back when the UoL was being asset stripped by its private equity owners and so there was some hope that Global University Systems, which acquired UoL last year, would stem the rot. Presumably it's taking a fair amount of time and cash to turn it around.
A spokesman for UoL said that "we can confirm that there were some minor issues with the recent exams which were dealt with swiftly and students were reassured that they would not be penalised due to any error on our part". She added that students had "experienced issues accessing online databases" and that the UoL had worked closely with the third party suppliers involved to ensure that full support was reinstated as quickly as possible.
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The business exam included a 20 mark question that was very interesting, but sadly not on the syllabus. So invigilators asked the students to cross out the question and then reallocate the marks to five other questions. That's the sort of professionalism which justifies £15,000 for a course.
Moorgate students weren't the only ones hit. An insider says that the business exam for Bloomsbury students included various drafting and spelling mistakes and omitted key dates which affected the answer. And coursework that was due in before Christmas has to be delayed by three days after the UoL's computer systems crashed and students were unable to access the questions.
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The UoL has a rich history of buggering up its exams. Results have been delayed after systems crashed, it has repeatedly handed out the wrong materials and it apologised after students variously had to sit papers in freezing cold and boiling heat. That was back when the UoL was being asset stripped by its private equity owners and so there was some hope that Global University Systems, which acquired UoL last year, would stem the rot. Presumably it's taking a fair amount of time and cash to turn it around.
A spokesman for UoL said that "we can confirm that there were some minor issues with the recent exams which were dealt with swiftly and students were reassured that they would not be penalised due to any error on our part". She added that students had "experienced issues accessing online databases" and that the UoL had worked closely with the third party suppliers involved to ensure that full support was reinstated as quickly as possible.
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This happened when I took Employment Elective - at the College of Law, York (2010). I'm deeply concerned if the same mistake was still happening when CoL converted to UoL!
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Our own erratum!
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