[Hum-DIS] Information Organisation and Collection Management Semester 2

[Annette Hughes]

Below is an email i have recieved regarding my enquiry as to the draft timetable for semester 2 for the units Information Organisation and Collection Management.  Please everyone look at the draft table and sumbit a feedback enquiry to have the start time altered.  8 am starts on Monday and Thursday.  If you have kids then this really does concern you...  
 
 
 
Roger,
Thankyou for your reply, however I wonder if you could enquire as to the policy of class timetabling in regards to part-time students, surely some allowance is made for other external commitments, this is after all why we are studying Part-Time. If the timetable times slotted in this draft timetable are final then I think you will find attendance numbers internally will be very low. I know I will not be able to make it.
Annette 
Dear Annette
Thank you for your enquiry regarding the timetable. I regret I am unable to change the timetable.
I have attached the relevant excerpt from the Timetabling and Class Times policy.
6.1 Core timetabling hours are Monday to Friday between the hours of 8am to 6pm.
Regards
Reg Millett
Timetabling Consultant - Humanities, Availabilities and Timetabling Unit
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Annette Hughes 
Sent: Friday, 15 June 2007 1:23 PM
To: Availabilities and Timetabling Unit
Subject: Feedback - Plan Your Timetable
I have just seen the draft timetable for the units 301045 Information Organisation and 301837 Collection Management
I noted that the lecture for Collection Management is slated to begin at 8am on Monday and the Laboratory for Information Organsation at the same time on a Thursday.
As a mature age student, I have children and other family commitments (like work) and I would find it very difficult and expensive to attend classes which begin so early. An 8am start would mean that I have to leave home at 6.30, drop my sons at before school care and then on to Uni to arrive in time as I live in Roleystone. Please please please, could the powers that be push this start time back a couple of hours, 10 is far more practical, especially considering the large number of mature aged students with children who are taking this course.
Take pity...
Annette Hughes
13125239
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