Comments on: UCD needs to start communicating with students |Opinion

By: Muireann Ni Raghallaigh

Muireann Ni Raghallaigh — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:24:53 +0000

Much of this article I agree with, in terms of the poor communication, UCD’s vested interest in having students renting accommodation etc. But the comments about lecturers are so disheartening. I and every lecturer in UCD whom I know have worked tirelessly over the past 6 months. The spring, summer and autumn trimesters rolled into each other with less respite. Our focus was on students, supporting them and planning for the forthcoming year. Perhaps a small proportion of lecturers are “doing the bare mimimum”. I am very skeptical that it is many.

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 11:35:10 +0000

Yeah, My son is a freshman, he has gone to get a time table and that’s it. There is no instruction or information afterward.
He was looking forward to the first le ture and tuned in at the time specified and There was nothing happened except the downloadable file showed up.

They are new in college system and new to everything. There is no clear instructions what to do or what’s going on, communications was also slow with delayed responses.

If I can’t understand what’s going on as an adult how would you expect a student who are still in their late teens to figure out what to do by just looking at his time tale on his phone.

Frustrating!